[Matplotlib-users] Announcing JupyterCon 2017, August 23-25 in NYC!

2017-01-26 Thread Fernando Perez
. Please spread the word, submit a proposal, and join us in NYC so we can have both a great event and a project that continues to grow and contribute to research, education, industry and more! Very best, Fernando -- Fernando Perez (@fperez_org; http://fperez.org) fperez.net-at-gmail: mailing lis

Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to create interactive plots in jupyter python3 notebook?

2016-02-28 Thread Fernando Perez
ig.canvas.mpl_connect('button_press_event', onclick) display(w) ``` Note, however, that at least for me, the interactive figures in the notebook are getting auto-closed for reasons I don't understand: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/6075. Cheers, -- Fernando P

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Looking for feedback on figures using matplotlib and jupyter notebook

2016-01-29 Thread Fernando Perez
ernal cross-referencing is one of Markdown's main weaknesses for complex more document-oriented workflows that aren't purely HTML oriented. Markdown is really a thin wrapper around HTML, so it doesn't expose the rich labeling/referencing semantics of rST or LaTeX. I didn't say

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Looking for feedback on figures using matplotlib and jupyter notebook

2016-01-28 Thread Fernando Perez
tab at this, don't hesitate to ping us on the jupyter list. We can help with some of the more obscure parts of getting this to work on nbconvert (and there may be things I've overlooked in the sketch above). Cheers, f -- Fernando Perez (@fperez_org; http://fperez.org) fperez.net-at

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Lorenz: A Composition

2015-04-01 Thread Fernando Perez
hank you so much for sharing this, it's beautiful, and a really great combination of math and art. John would have loved it... :) Fernando Perez (@fperez_org; http://fperez.org) fperez.net-at-gmail: mailing lists only (I ignore this when swamped!) fernando.perez-at-b

Re: [Matplotlib-users] what are the new features of nbagg?

2015-02-18 Thread Fernando Perez
has been around for a while longer. -- Fernando Perez (@fperez_org; http://fperez.org) fperez.net-at-gmail: mailing lists only (I ignore this when swamped!) fernando.perez-at-berkeley: contact me here for any direct mail -

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib history

2014-07-30 Thread Fernando Perez
gt; Reboot your WinForms applications with our WinForms controls. > Build a bridge from your legacy apps to the future. > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=153845071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > ___ > Matplotlib-users mailing list

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basic matshow question

2014-07-30 Thread Fernando Perez
uplicate figures when you start manually calling display(fig) yourself. So in that more advanced scenario, you will need to add the occasional plt.close() call. HTH, f -- Fernando Perez (@fperez_org; http://fperez.org) fperez.net-at-gmail: mailing lists only (I ignore this when swamped!) fernando.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basic matshow question

2014-07-30 Thread Fernando Perez
g matplotlib backend: TkAgg In [2]: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt In [3]: plt.plot([1,2,3]) Out[3]: [] Cheers f -- Fernando Perez (@fperez_org; http://fperez.org) fperez.net-at-gmail: mailing lists only (I ignore this when swamped!) fernando.perez-at-berkeley: c

[Matplotlib-users] [ANN] IPython 1.0 is finally released, nearly 12 years in the making!

2013-08-08 Thread Fernando Perez
nks to everyone! Please enjoy IPython 1.0, and report all bugs as usual! Fernando, on behalf of the IPython Dev Team. -- Fernando Perez (@fperez_org; http://fperez.org) fperez.net-at-gmail: mailing lists only (I ignore this when swamped!) fernando.perez-at-berkeley: contact me here for any

[Matplotlib-users] In Memoriam, John D. Hunter III: 1968-2012

2013-07-01 Thread Fernando Perez
missed the conference: http://blog.fperez.org/2013/07/in-memoriam-john-d-hunter-iii-1968-2012.html Cheers, f -- Fernando Perez (@fperez_org; http://fperez.org) fperez.net-at-gmail: mailing lists only (I ignore this when swamped!) fernando.perez-at-berkeley: contact me here for any d

[Matplotlib-users] A generous donation of $10, 000 from Simula/Hans Petter Langtangen via NumFOCUS

2013-05-29 Thread Fernando Perez
iving side of things. -- Fernando Perez (@fperez_org; http://fperez.org) fperez.net-at-gmail: mailing lists only (I ignore this when swamped!) fernando.perez-at-berkeley: contact me here for any direct mail -- Introd

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib produced plots in academic journal articles

2012-10-05 Thread Fernando Perez
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Damon McDougall wrote: > It's maybe a bit over the top, > but it's certainly a good reference. I agree, a bit too rich for my taste too. But our sites tend to be the opposite extreme, so it's a good data point to keep in mind. Cheers, f ---

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib produced plots in academic journal articles

2012-10-05 Thread Fernando Perez
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Nelle Varoquaux wrote: > Here is an example on circos' website of how they advertise the use of their > plotting library in research: http://circos.ca/intro/published_images/ Wow, that is one hell of a visually spiffy site. Can't find any links to development rep

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib produced plots in academic journal articles

2012-10-05 Thread Fernando Perez
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > This is a great idea. Anything to raise the level of perceived "legitimacy" > in the academic community would be great. We can definitely add content like > this to the documentation and/or website. Our strategy: - Prominent display on

Re: [Matplotlib-users] XKCD style graphs?

2012-10-04 Thread Fernando Perez
Sweet! That should *defiintely* go into the mpl gallery, and honestly I'd love for it to be cleaned up enough to be usable to style generically any plot, much like the mathematica code I linked to earlier does. It would be a beautiful demonstration of matplotlib's capabilities, and furthermore, I

[Matplotlib-users] John Hunter has been awarded the first Distinguished Service Award by the PSF

2012-09-14 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi folks, you may have already seen this, but in case you haven't, I'm thrilled to share that the Python Software Foundation has just created its newest and highest distinction, the Distinguished Service Award, and has chosen John as its first recipient: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2012/09/announ

[Matplotlib-users] John Hunter's memorial service

2012-09-07 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, I have just received the following information from John's family regarding the memorial service: John's memorial service will be held on Monday, October 1, 2012, at 11.a.m. at Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago. The exact address is 5850 S. Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60615.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [matplotlib-devel] A sad day for our community. John Hunter: 1968-2012.

2012-08-29 Thread Fernando Perez
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Jim Benson wrote: > My apologies also for replying to the lists (double post), but the above web > address did not work for me under Safari Version 5.1.7 (6534.57.2) (there > was only one other post when i tried to post). > I only got a "Please complete the CAPTCHA

[Matplotlib-users] A sad day for our community. John Hunter: 1968-2012.

2012-08-29 Thread Fernando Perez
Dear friends and colleagues, [please excuse a possible double-post of this message, in-flight internet glitches] I am terribly saddened to report that yesterday, August 28 2012 at 10am, John D. Hunter died from complications arising from cancer treatment at the University of Chicago hospital, af

[Matplotlib-users] [ANN] Call for abstracts: BigData minisymposium at CSE'13, February 2013, Boston

2012-08-23 Thread Fernando Perez
m, please contact us directly at: "C. Titus Brown" , "Fernando Perez" with your name and affiliation, the title of your proposed talk and a brief description (actual abstracts are due later so an informal description will suffice for now), by Wednesday August 29. For more detai

Re: [Matplotlib-users] New tutorial (beginner level)

2012-08-13 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi Ben, On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Benjamin Root wrote: > I have said this before, and it can't be repeated often enough. The work > that you and your team has been doing the past few years with the notebook > is *already* revolutionizing how we teach python. 10 years from now, > programm

Re: [Matplotlib-users] New tutorial (beginner level)

2012-08-11 Thread Fernando Perez
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Nicolas Rougier wrote: > By the way, I suspect the simple plot part may well suited for the ipython > notebook ! > I'll give it a try. Actually in the notebook it is now possible to enable exercises, hints, reveal-boxes, etc. I'm cc'ing here Matthias Bussonnier

Re: [Matplotlib-users] New tutorial (beginner level)

2012-08-10 Thread Fernando Perez
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Nicolas Rougier wrote: > > I've just finished a new introductory tutorial for incoming Euroscipy 2012. > You can find it here: > > http://www.loria.fr/~rougier/teaching/matplotlib/ Wow! Other than the rendering glitches already mentioned, this is *awesome*. We'

[Matplotlib-users] [ANN] SIAM Conference on Computational Science & Engineering Submission Deadlines Approaching!

2012-08-02 Thread Fernando Perez
questions, don't hesitate to contact me or one of the other organizers if you feel they can address your concerns more directly: "Fernando Perez" "Randy LeVeque" (Reproducible research track) "Hans Petter Langtangen" (Conference co-chair)

[Matplotlib-users] [ANN] IPython 0.13 is officially out!

2012-06-30 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, on behalf of the IPython development team, and just in time for the imminent Debian freeze and SciPy 2012, I'm thrilled to announce, after an intense 6 months of work, the official release of IPython 0.13. This version contains several major new features, as well as a large amount of bug

[Matplotlib-users] Is IPython useful for your research/industry work? Feedback wanted for grant proposal.

2012-06-22 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi folks, sorry for the cross-post, but I expect all replies to this to happen off-list. I'm in the process of writing an NSF grant that will partly include IPython support, and along with Brian we will soon be doing more of the same. In the past we haven't had the best of luck with the NFS, hop

Re: [Matplotlib-users] What is your matplotlib workflow?

2012-06-11 Thread Fernando Perez
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:05 PM, wiswit wrote: > While in emacs or vim, you cannot simple select lines and execute them, so > you have to frequently copy and code and use %cpaste or %paste to paste the > code. In emacs you can activate ipython in your emacs.el file and then you can send arbitrary

Re: [Matplotlib-users] who (F/OSS science) uses matplotlib?

2012-06-05 Thread Fernando Perez
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Eric Firing wrote: > In oceanography: it is used in the shipboard ADCP data acquisition and > processing systems, presently installed on 20 ships. Suggestion: let's have for mpl something like what we created long ago for IPython, an official page listing projects

[Matplotlib-users] All of the PyData videos are now up at the Marakana site

2012-04-17 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi folks, A number of you expressed interest in attending the PyData workshop last month and unfortunately we had very tight space restrictions. But thanks to the team at Marakana, who pitched in and were willing to film, edit and post videos for many of the talks, you can access them all here: h

Re: [Matplotlib-users] pydata hack Friday night in Santa Clara

2012-03-01 Thread Fernando Perez
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Mic wrote: > Would be greate if it would be possible to record talks and slides and make > them public for whome are not leaving near by. The hack night will be 'open space' so not videotaped, but the main workshop will be, thanks to the awesome folks at Marakana w

[Matplotlib-users] Discussion with Guido van Rossum and (hopefully) core python-dev on scientific Python and Python3

2012-02-14 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi folks, [ I'm broadcasting this widely for maximum reach, but I'd appreciate it if replies can be kept to the *numpy* list, which is sort of the 'base' list for scientific/numerical work. It will make it much easier to organize a coherent set of notes later on. Apology if you're subscribed to

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How matplotlib got me a job

2012-02-07 Thread Fernando Perez
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Ethan Gutmann wrote: > > Also, congrats Ben, both on finishing the PhD and on the job. If you ever > find yourself in Boulder, CO (I'm at NCAR), let me know and I'll buy you a > drink. Indeed, congrats to Ben! And I'm very glad to see your many contributions to

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Events

2012-01-29 Thread Fernando Perez
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Jerzy Karczmarczuk wrote: > This is a temporal pause, not an undetermined suspension, restartable. Ah, never mind then. I didn't read the docstring and misunderstood the discussion in the pull request. Cheers, f

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Events

2012-01-29 Thread Fernando Perez
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Jerzy Karczmarczuk wrote: > This happens also with different backends and the driving interface (say, > Idle with Tkinter...) > Some solutions exist. The simplest one is the following. Thanks for the tips! It would really be nice if in animation mode, the mpl w

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Events

2012-01-29 Thread Fernando Perez
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 3:41 AM, Jerzy Karczmarczuk wrote: > > > There is one "rant", if you wish (of course, I am joking). > > The animation objects (FuncAnimation, etc.) are coded as they are, > probably sufficient for you. They are "one shot". But if you want to > stop and to resume your animat

Re: [Matplotlib-users] cycling mechanism

2012-01-04 Thread Fernando Perez
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: > > Thoughts? Comments? None other than my eternal gratitude if you do this: it's one of the few things (perhaps the only one) I still miss from the old gnuplot, which made it trivial to switch from color to b/w mode and it would produce sensib

[Matplotlib-users] [ANN] IPython 0.12 is out!

2011-12-19 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, on behalf of the IPython development team, I'm thrilled to announce, after an intense 4 1/2 months of work, the official release of IPython 0.12. This is a very important release for IPython, for several reasons. First and foremost, we have a major new feature, our interactive web-based n

Re: [Matplotlib-users] I get a warning when running code with ipython, but not with python

2011-11-14 Thread Fernando Perez
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 6:11 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > This looks like a bug for the IPython folks.  If you make a file > containing only "import gtk" and "%run" that file, one gets the same error. > Mmmh, I don't get the problem on ubuntu 10.10. I'll try to check later on an 11.10 machine

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib 1.1.0 and PySide

2011-10-13 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi Jean-Louis, On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:47 AM, Durrieu Jean-Louis wrote: > > Is that the right way to do so? Is there any way of setting the QT_API more > "definitely", and not having to change the call to python? > Yes, in your $HOME/.bashrc file that your shell loads at startup time, you can

[Matplotlib-users] [ANN] PyHPC2011: Python at SuperComputing 2011 in Seattle

2011-09-11 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, SC is the largest conference focused on high-performance computing, this year it will be held in Seattle: http://sc11.supercomputing.org/ and as part of the conference, a Python-focused workshop is being organized. The deadline for papers is coming up soon (Sept 19), so if you are inter

Re: [Matplotlib-users] mathtext in eps figures doesn't come out in pdf

2011-08-18 Thread Fernando Perez
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Jonathan Slavin wrote: > Attached are examples of the problem -- a PostScript file and the pdf > that is created using ps2pdf.  The y-axis is properly labeled in the ps > file, but the part of the label using mathtext becomes invisible in the > pdf. > What happens

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [ANN] IPython 0.11 is officially out

2011-08-03 Thread Fernando Perez
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Fernando Perez wrote: > Please see our release notes for the full details on everything about > this release: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/zipball/rel-0.11 And embarrassingly, that URL was for a zip download instead (copy/paste error), the de

[Matplotlib-users] [ANN] IPython 0.11 is officially out

2011-07-31 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, on behalf of the IPython development team, I'm thrilled to announce, after more than two years of development work, the official release of IPython 0.11. This release brings a long list of improvements and new features (along with hopefully few new bugs). We have completely refactored IP

Re: [Matplotlib-users] dolphin save as svg broken

2010-10-13 Thread Fernando Perez
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > Yes, but this is fixed in SVN 1.0 branch and trunk -- at least for me. > Not for you? And for the record, I can confirm that from trunk, a saved dolphins.svg opens OK with inkscape. The bug (as mentioned on -dev) we're seeing is actual

Re: [Matplotlib-users] dolphin save as svg broken

2010-10-13 Thread Fernando Perez
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Fernando Perez wrote: > > Nope, identical behavior, just tested with a rebuilt-from-now numpy and mpl: > OK, the plot thickens. I may have spoken too fast: the behavior we see in the Qt console is indeed the same I reported earlier, and the MPL bug wh

Re: [Matplotlib-users] dolphin save as svg broken

2010-10-13 Thread Fernando Perez
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Jouni K. Seppänen wrote: > > Is there a way to ask apt what the build dependencies for a package are, > and then install only a subset? A crude but functional way is to just run apt-get build-dep, and then cancel the actual download. That list is printed on scre

Re: [Matplotlib-users] dolphin save as svg broken

2010-10-13 Thread Fernando Perez
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > Yes, but this is fixed in SVN 1.0 branch and trunk -- at least for me. > Not for you? Nope, identical behavior, just tested with a rebuilt-from-now numpy and mpl: amirbar[matplotlib]> svn info Path: . URL: https://matplotlib.svn.source

Re: [Matplotlib-users] dolphin save as svg broken

2010-10-12 Thread Fernando Perez
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Carl Karsten wrote: > > Run the code, you get a window that has a 'save' button, the dialog > has a 'type svg' option > the svg renders with the blue/green dots everywhere (rendering using > both rsvg-view and inkscape, which use different rendering engines.) > sav

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [ANN] IPython 0.10.1 is out.

2010-10-12 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, Illustrating the need to *always* remember we credit in the commit message the name of the person who made a contribution originally... 2010/10/12 Fernando Perez : > Hi all, > - New IPython Sphinx directive.  You can use this directive to mark blocks in >  reSructuredText doc

[Matplotlib-users] [ANN] IPython 0.10.1 is out.

2010-10-12 Thread Fernando Perez
ease (please let us know if we omitted your name and we'll gladly fix this in the notes for the future): * Beni Cherniavsky * Boyd Waters. * David Warde-Farley * Fernando Perez * Gökhan Sever * Justin Riley * Kiorky * Laurent Dufrechou * Mark E. Smith * Matthieu Brucher * Satraji

Re: [Matplotlib-users] autoscale when adding data to a Line2D?

2010-09-27 Thread Fernando Perez
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Eric Firing wrote: > You can do this using Axes.relim() > prior to calling autoscale_view(). > Aha! That's the call I missed, thanks a bunch. Perhaps a note indicating that in the autoscale_view docstring wouldn't hurt, because as it reads now I think the confus

Re: [Matplotlib-users] autoscale when adding data to a Line2D?

2010-09-27 Thread Fernando Perez
Mmh, On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Jae-Joon Lee wrote: > > Did you try autoscale_view method? > > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/axes_api.html?highlight=autoscale#matplotlib.axes.Axes.autoscale_view > > Please post a sample script that reproduces the problem. > I'm wondering if I'm do

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Python 3

2010-09-24 Thread Fernando Perez
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Ryan May wrote: > > The one called Py3k :) > > http://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/matplotlib/branches/py3k/ > In case you want to have ipython while testing, there's already an experimental py3k branch of ipython as well: http://github.com/takowl/ipytho

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Level surface of a function of 3 variables

2010-09-17 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi Luke, On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Dale Lukas Peterson wrote: > >  I'm not sure I understand how I would make use of my function then. >  My function needs to be evaluated over a 3-d mesh (x, y, and z) , and then > the >  level surfaces (not contour lines) calculated.  I guess I could tre

Re: [Matplotlib-users] CMYK images

2010-08-26 Thread Fernando Perez
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Eric Firing wrote: > It's not trivial.  This might help: > > http://www.littlecms.com/ > > See the tutorial for some nice background info. And this could be a good start for a python-based workflow: http://www.cazabon.com/pyCMS/ *if* it works (it looks old, so

Re: [Matplotlib-users] New subplots from 1.0 + shared axis

2010-08-09 Thread Fernando Perez
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Filipe Pires Alvarenga Fernandes wrote: > > It sacrifice a more fine control, but simplify the processes for the > majority of the plots that I produce. Yes, that was the idea. We figured that if you need very fine-grained control over axis sharing in complex way

Re: [Matplotlib-users] New subplots from 1.0 + shared axis

2010-08-09 Thread Fernando Perez
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Filipe Fernandes wrote: > > The docstring for sunplots has the "sharex(y) option", but my "ax" are > being created now!? Is that a chicken and egg problem? Or I'm failing to > understand the logic here. Don't worry: when you indicate that you want to share axes (x

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Draggable matplotlib legend

2010-01-28 Thread Fernando Perez
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Christopher Barker wrote: > Might I suggest that that be made: > > leg.draggable(True) > leg.draggable(False) > Agreed. My favorite api for toggles is: _state = True def toggle(state=None): global _state old = _state if state is None: _state

[Matplotlib-users] Fwd: SciPy2009 BoF Wiki Page

2009-08-13 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi folks, David Warde-Farley kindly set up a page to coordinate BoF attendance at the conference, in case anyone on this list is interested. Details below. Cheers, f -- Forwarded message -- From: David Warde-Farley Date: Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:20 PM Subject: [IPython-user] S

[Matplotlib-users] [ANN] IPython 0.10 is out.

2009-08-04 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, on behalf of the IPython development team, I'm happy to announce that we've just put out IPython 0.10 final. Many thanks to all those who contributed ideas, bug reports and code. You can download it from the usual location: - http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/Download: direct links to vario

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Radar / Spider Chars

2009-07-28 Thread Fernando Perez
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Josh Hemann wrote: > FYI I have some other examples I was thinking would be useful. Here is an > enhanced boxplot example > that might compliment the simple examples well: > > http://www.nabble.com/file/p24705282/boxplotExample.png Please! That example with the t

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi, On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Fernando Perez wrote: > The time for the Scipy'09 conference is rapidly approaching, and we > would like to both announce the plan for tutorials and solicit > feedback from everyone on topics of interest. rather than rehash much here, where it

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-06-15 Thread Fernando Perez
ecision process. Thanks for your time, Dave Peterson and Fernando Perez On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Fernando Perez wrote: > Hi all, > > The time for the Scipy'09 conference is rapidly approaching, and we > would like to both announce the plan for tutorials and solicit >

[Matplotlib-users] Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-06-01 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, The time for the Scipy'09 conference is rapidly approaching, and we would like to both announce the plan for tutorials and solicit feedback from everyone on topics of interest. Broadly speaking, the plan is something along the lines of what we had last year: one continuous 2-day tutorial

[Matplotlib-users] Has IPython been useful to you? Please let me know...

2009-03-15 Thread Fernando Perez
thing in return for working on IPython and the ecosystem of scientific Python tools, but this is actually very important, so any information you can provide me will be very useful. Best regards, Fernando Perez. -- Apps

Re: [Matplotlib-users] ANN: python for scientific computing at SIAM CSE 09

2009-03-09 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi folks, On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Fernando Perez wrote: > Hi all, > > sorry for the spam, but in case any of you are coming to the SIAM > Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE09) in Miami: > > http://www.siam.org/meetings/cse09/ A little

[Matplotlib-users] ANN: python for scientific computing at SIAM CSE 09

2009-03-04 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, sorry for the spam, but in case any of you are coming to the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE09) in Miami: http://www.siam.org/meetings/cse09/ you might be interested in stopping by the Python sessions on Thursday: http://meetings.siam.org/sess/dsp_programse

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib PSD bug?

2008-12-08 Thread Fernando Perez
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Ryan May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Hunter wrote: > The scaling changes are in, as well as the warning and the corresponding > lines in > api_changes and CHANGELOG. I also added the converted matlab demo I used to > figure this stuff out. Now would probab

Re: [Matplotlib-users] wxmpl incompatibility with matplotlib 0.98.x

2008-08-27 Thread Fernando Perez
Howdy, On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Michael Droettboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not aware of the problem (but I'm not a regular wxmpl user). > > From 0.91 to 0.98, a major refactoring was done to make it easier to > add new kinds of projections. So PolarAxes is no longer a special cas

Re: [Matplotlib-users] The "who" command in Ipython-PyLab

2008-07-11 Thread Fernando Perez
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Eli Brosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Fernando, > I now tried %who. > The result was a huge output, apparently containing all the pylab functions. > This is exactly the thing I was trying to avoid. > I wanted to use the who command to see only the variables

Re: [Matplotlib-users] The "who" command in Ipython-PyLab

2008-07-11 Thread Fernando Perez
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Eli Brosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In [1]: a=2 > > In [2]: who > a > > In [3]: from pylab import * > > In [4]: who > Out[4]: > Why is this happening? Because pylab provides its own who _function_, which overrides the ipython command ('magic function', in i

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Changing backend with ipython

2008-06-27 Thread Fernando Perez
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Andrew Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > All the usual apologies if this is a FAQ, but I can't find it. > > Is there any way to change the backend interactively when using ipython? > > Best of all would a way to make changes in the middle of a session,

[Matplotlib-users] [OT - IPython] Old 'broken terminal' bug finally fixed

2008-04-18 Thread Fernando Perez
[ Sorry for the cross-post, but I know this is something that has hit quite a few people on this list. If you have any questions on it, please ask on the ipython list, this is just an FYI ] Hi all, there's a very old, *extremely* annoying bug that multiple people have asked about (on list and in

[Matplotlib-users] IPython -pylab/-Xthread improvements in SVN - testers?

2008-01-31 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, sorry for the quick cross-post, but I know that many mpl users rely on the ipython -pylab support for interactive work. This is a call for testing from current SVN of anyone who uses ipython with the GUI thread support, whether via -pylab or directly via one of the -Xthread options. For

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib, ipython and ubuntu

2008-01-29 Thread Fernando Perez
On Jan 29, 2008 4:13 PM, Tim Michelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In [1]: import timeseries as TS > > In [2]: whos > --- > Traceback (most recent call last) > > /var/tmp/install/qgislite_trunk/ in () > > /var/lib/pyt

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [matplotlib-devel] New flags in IPython, of interest to matplotlib users

2007-12-12 Thread Fernando Perez
On Dec 12, 2007 7:16 AM, Paul Kienzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm curious about the term 'threading backend'. > > Recently I posted a question about how to handle slow plots, suggesting > that the backend canvas have an isabort() method so that the renderer > can stop what it is doing and post

[Matplotlib-users] New flags in IPython, of interest to matplotlib users

2007-12-12 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, This was posted to the ipython-dev list, but since it's specifically for MPL, I figured the cross-list spam would be forgiven. In IPython SVN, I just added the ability to manually control the pylab threading backend choice directly from the command line. So for example if by default you

Re: [Matplotlib-users] installation problem/crash

2007-12-11 Thread Fernando Perez
On Dec 11, 2007 12:01 PM, Ryan Krauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to help a student get started with > Python/Scipy/Numpy/Matplotlib in windows. On one of his machines, > everything seems to install correctly, we can call figure(1) without a > problem, and plotting is fine until we tr

Re: [Matplotlib-users] CocoaAgg backend status?

2007-12-05 Thread Fernando Perez
On Dec 5, 2007 11:55 AM, Barry Wark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen, > > The CocoaAgg backend is not supported in IPython. Though we'd love to support it, were a few patches to land our way :) Cheers, f - SF.Net email

Re: [Matplotlib-users] CocoaAgg backend status?

2007-12-05 Thread Fernando Perez
On Dec 5, 2007 8:37 AM, Stephen Uhlhorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was just wondering what the status of the CocoaAgg backend is since > there is not much info available. > > Can it be used interactively w/ipython? I don't know for a fact, but the answer is probalby no. Each GUI backend requi

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Bug in mathtext

2007-12-04 Thread Fernando Perez
Hey Jorgen, On Dec 4, 2007 12:10 PM, Jörgen Stenarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I get a complete crash dumping me in the console when there are unknown > latex commands in a mathtext expression, this when doing interactive > stuff in ipython -pylab. > > examples: > title("$|S_{11}|$")

Re: [Matplotlib-users] RuntimeError after clearing and plotting for many times

2007-12-02 Thread Fernando Perez
On Dec 2, 2007 2:07 PM, Yongtao Cui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could anyone give me some help? No help here, just providing a data point for the devs. Under linux, with In [5]: wx.__version__ Out[5]: '2.8.4.0' In [6]: matplotlib.__version__ Out[6]: '0.91.1' I ran test(100) several times, n

Re: [Matplotlib-users] os x leopard build step-by-step

2007-11-25 Thread Fernando Perez
Hey John, the info is now a wiki page for the workshop here: http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/Py4Science/InstallationOSX Anyone who has improvements, feel free to make them there. If you don't have a wiki account, you'll see a message telling you that new account creation is disabled, but it's act

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting Continuous Functions

2007-11-24 Thread Fernando Perez
On Nov 24, 2007 4:17 PM, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Angus McMorland wrote: > > I've found it easiest to solve these sorts of bugs by running the code in > > an ipython shell, with automatic pdb calling. That way you can inspect the > > values of the parameters i

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [IPython-user] matplotlib and ipython inside ide (mac osx)

2007-09-10 Thread Fernando Perez
On 9/7/07, killian koepsell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > > i am looking for help in using matplotlib inside a graphical IDE in mac osx > and preferabley even ipython with matplotlib inside an IDE. i am used to > interact with the python interpreter (inside ipython, even inside > ipython-ins

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Looking for a way to save a graph

2007-08-24 Thread Fernando Perez
On 8/24/07, David Tremouilles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK I see... nothing straightforward... > > Best way for me is maybe to implement such a system myself: > The system would collect the information to be saved by kind of > introspection of the figure. > I'm planning to save data and plot pro

Re: [Matplotlib-users] SVG vs PNG

2007-05-12 Thread Fernando Perez
On 5/12/07, Steve Schmerler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fernando Perez wrote: > > > > Did you install pstoedit? If you do, you'll see that inkscape will > > then be able to load .eps/.ps files in a fully editable format. I've > > used it to fix decad

Re: [Matplotlib-users] SVG vs PNG

2007-05-11 Thread Fernando Perez
On 5/11/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bingo! My prayer appears to have been answered. > > inkscape has no trouble reading the .svg files created by MPL, and Word has > no trouble reading the .eps files created by inkscape. So, at least I can > use it to preserve the vector

Re: [Matplotlib-users] SVG vs PNG

2007-05-11 Thread Fernando Perez
On 5/11/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks everybody for the explanation of svg in Gimp. That makes sense. Is > there any vector based program that does what Gimp does? Try inkscape. I've used it successfully for simple things, though I've never tried to handle a MPL SVG

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib-users Digest, Vol 12, Issue 12

2007-05-08 Thread Fernando Perez
On 5/8/07, Aaron Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been using the qt4 backend with ipython for maybe a year > > now, currently > > ipython 0.8.0. What is the output of "ipython -Version"? > > ipython -Version gives: > > 0.8.0 > > Specifically, the error seems to be happening on line 838

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Python issue of Computing in Science and Engineering available

2007-04-25 Thread Fernando Perez
On 4/25/07, Christopher Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fernando Perez wrote: > > This explicitly mentions author website redistribution, as long as > > the official IEEE version is used. > > > > Unless I'm misreading the above, I think it's OK for

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Python issue of Computing in Science and Engineering available

2007-04-25 Thread Fernando Perez
On 4/25/07, John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/25/07, Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since authors are allowed by their publication policy to keep a > > publicly available copy of their papers on their personal website, > > here's

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Python issue of Computing in Science and Engineering available

2007-04-25 Thread Fernando Perez
On 4/25/07, Andrew Straw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The May/June issue of Computing in Science and Engineering > http://computer.org/cise: is out and has a Python theme. Many folks we > know and love from the community and mailing lists contribute to the > issue. Read articles by Paul Dubois and

Re: [Matplotlib-users] passing mouse clicks back to a polling application

2007-04-05 Thread Fernando Perez
On 4/5/07, belinda thom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Darn. I am writing this reply as a desperate attempt to make sure > there's not some quick fix to make it work in my specific case; I'm > about ready to give up or try something like Tk, but am running out > of time. We might, alas, have to sett

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Stumped trying to find basic info

2007-04-05 Thread Fernando Perez
On 4/5/07, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > > I've just started using matplotlib, and I'm stumped on where to > > find basic info. I've search the users guide, tutorial, and > > FAQ, and I can't find things as simple as a list of what the > > color specifiers are. I

[Matplotlib-users] Request for testing: IPython

2007-04-05 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, sorry to spam the list a bit, but what follows is of direct interest to a good number of matplotlib users. Yesterday we put out here: http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/testing/ a release candidate for IPython 0.7.4, as well as PyReadline (needed by windows users). There is one new feature

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matlab, idle, interactivity and teaching

2007-03-30 Thread Fernando Perez
On 3/30/07, Mark Bakker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I always thought ipython didn't come with a good editor. > Am I mistaken? You are not mistaken, and this is by design: ipython is not an IDE, it's the interactive component of a python workflow. As others have mentioned (thanks to all, btw), it

Re: [Matplotlib-users] creating live plot (update while data is arriving)

2007-03-28 Thread Fernando Perez
On 3/28/07, Ken McIvor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You'd almost certainly be happier doing things the other way around. > Most GUI toolkits are extremely fussy about what thread the GUI event > loop runs in. For example, wxPython requires App.MainLoop() be > called from the thread that first imp

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matshow?

2007-03-19 Thread Fernando Perez
On 3/19/07, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the matshow anomalies is that it is a pylab function only instead > of a wrapper for an Axes method, so I made a new Axes.matshow(), and a > temporary matshow1() pylab function that calls it. Differences between > matshow() and matshow1(

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