Is there any way to remove the "default" cursor set with MPLCURSORS?

[battaglia01]

I have a default cursor set with the MPLCURSORS environment variable. This works well for most figures.

However, sometimes, for some one-off figure, I'd like to create a custom annotation and etc - pretty basic use case - but I don't know how to get rid of the "default" cursor created by MPLCURSORS.

It would be great if we could call some function, called something like get_all_cursors(ax), which will return all cursors on some axes. Then we could remove or modify them.

Is this possible to do?

[anntzer]

Right now there's Cursors._keep_alive, which provides an (internal, weak) mapping of artists to cursors; I could just expose the list of cursors in there and let you filter based on cursor.artists as desired, how does that look to you?

[battaglia01]

Sounds good! So what would this look like?