On Oct 13, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Zachary Pincus <zachary.pin...@yale.edu> wrote:
> I keep meaning to use matplotlib as well, but every time I try I also get
> really turned off by the matlabish interface in the examples. I get that it's
> a selling point for matlab refugees, but I find it counterintuitive in the
> same way Christoph seems to.
>
> I'm glad to hear the OO interface isn't as clunky as it looks on some of the
> doc pages, though. This is good news. Can anyone point out any good
> tutorials/docs on using matplotlib idiomatically via its OO interface?
>
>
I would start with these examples
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/api/index.html
These examples use pyplot only for figure generation, mostly because this is
the easiest way to get a Figure instance correctly wired across user interface
toolkits, but use the API for everything else.
And this tutorial, which explains the central object hierarchy:
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/artists.html
For a deeper dive, these tutorials may be of interest too:
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/transforms_tutorial.html
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/path_tutorial.html
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/event_handling.html
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