class_docstr: A series of possibly disconnected, possibly closed, line and curve
  segments.
  
  The underlying storage is made up of two parallel numpy arrays:
  
  - *vertices*: an (N, 2) float array of vertices
  - *codes*: an N-length `numpy.uint8` array of path codes, or None
  
  These two arrays always have the same length in the first
  dimension.  For example, to represent a cubic curve, you must
  provide three vertices and three `CURVE4` codes.
  
  The code types are:
  
  - `STOP`   :  1 vertex (ignored)
      A marker for the end of the entire path (currently not required and
      ignored)
  
  - `MOVETO` :  1 vertex
      Pick up the pen and move to the given vertex.
  
  - `LINETO` :  1 vertex
      Draw a line from the current position to the given vertex.
  
  - `CURVE3` :  1 control point, 1 endpoint
      Draw a quadratic Bézier curve from the current position, with the given
      control point, to the given end point.
  
  - `CURVE4` :  2 control points, 1 endpoint
      Draw a cubic Bézier curve from the current position, with the given
      control points, to the given end point.
  
  - `CLOSEPOLY` : 1 vertex (ignored)
      Draw a line segment to the start point of the current polyline.
  
  If *codes* is None, it is interpreted as a `MOVETO` followed by a series
  of `LINETO`.
  
  Users of Path objects should not access the vertices and codes arrays
  directly.  Instead, they should use `iter_segments` or `cleaned` to get the
  vertex/code pairs.  This helps, in particular, to consistently handle the
  case of *codes* being None.
  
  Some behavior of Path objects can be controlled by rcParams. See the
  rcParams whose keys start with 'path.'.
  
  .. note::
  
      The vertices and codes arrays should be treated as
      immutable -- there are a number of optimizations and assumptions
      made up front in the constructor that will not change when the
      data changes.
code: def codes(self, codes):
      if self._readonly:
          raise AttributeError("Can't set codes on a readonly Path")
      self._codes = codes
      self._update_values()
  
imports: import copy
  from functools import lru_cache
  from weakref import WeakValueDictionary
  import numpy
  import matplotlib
  from .None import _api, _path
  from .cbook import _to_unmasked_float_array, simple_linear_interpolation
  from .bezier import BezierSegment
label_desc: Use image node_id 8 for calling the Path obj's underlying member method code with example usage: obj.codes(codes) without return types