Re: [Matplotlib-users] Dashed line step plot

2010-09-17 Thread Paul Hobson
Same here. -paul h. On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Jeffrey Blackburne jblackbu...@gmail.com wrote: I get a solid line for plt.step like you do. MPL 1.0.0, SVN revision 8657. -Jeff On Sep 17, 2010, at 4:34 PM, Gökhan Sever wrote: Hello, Can someone confirm me if this creates a dashed

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Help in graph

2010-10-19 Thread Paul Hobson
the label as in the example image?: Data from Riess et al (2004) Thanks, Waleria. On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Paul Hobson pmhob...@gmail.com wrote: Waléria, Hopefully this example helps: # code... import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111) ax.plot

Re: [Matplotlib-users] it is possible to use basemap to create regular spaced lat/lon grids?

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Hobson
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Benjamin Root ben.r...@ou.edu wrote: I don't know the full details, but the idea was that we didn't want to have SciPy as a dependency, so mlab was used to replicate many of the functions found in SciPy.  I don't know why the calling conventions are different,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] one pixel white border : bug ?

2011-09-09 Thread Paul Hobson
Ben and Yves, Might this be behavior defined in the matplotlibrc file? In [21]: import matplotlib as mpl In [22]: mpl.rcParams['figure.edgecolor'] Out[22]: 'w' -paul On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Benjamin Root ben.r...@ou.edu wrote: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 3:49 AM, Yves Revaz

[Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib typography (general discussion)

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Hobson
I am hoping to have a general discussion about font choices other matplotlib users make when the figure will be seen by someone other than yourself. Generally speaking, my figures go in to technical memos, automatically generated reports, and on rare occasion a web page. For memos (created in

Re: [Matplotlib-users] use shapefile to create a mask?

2011-11-03 Thread Paul Hobson
To the best of my knowledge, this beyond the scope of matplotlib. Scipy or Shapely *might* have something for you, but you best bet is to look into the raster clipping functionality of GDAL/OGR. Hope that helps, -paul On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 3:40 PM, questions anon questions.a...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Gradient color on a line plot

2011-11-07 Thread Paul Hobson
Gökhan, This a great trick! Much simpler than digging around with line segments and such. My old solution to this problem was so clunky and slow I'm embarrassed to post it. Thanks so much for sharing this. -paul On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Gökhan Sever gokhanse...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I

Re: [Matplotlib-users] pie colors

2011-12-12 Thread Paul Hobson
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Benjamin Root ben.r...@ou.edu wrote: As an additional note, would it be a desirable feature to be able to cycle hash styles in the case of producing bw plots? Ben Root Ben, I think this would be quite useful. How are you thinking of implementing it? Cycling

Re: [Matplotlib-users] set yticklabels fonts size without setting the yticklabels

2012-01-25 Thread Paul Hobson
I always taylor a matplotlibrc file for a given project, but you can modify the rc parameters on the fly: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/customizing.html#dynamic-rc-settings You need to set themodified rc parameters at the top of your script. Hope that helps. -paul On Wed, Jan 25,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] (no subject)

2012-01-28 Thread Paul Hobson
There is undoubtedly a more efficient way to do this, but give this a shot: import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt x = np.arange(0, 10.5, 0.5) y = -3.0*x + 0.5*x**2 color_list = ['FireBrick', 'Orange', 'DarkGreen', 'DarkBlue', 'Indigo'] limits = np.arange(0, 11, 2) fig, ax1 =

Re: [Matplotlib-users] impossible to deactivate minor grid in logscale

2012-03-01 Thread Paul Hobson
Federico, You were so close! Try this: fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111) ax.plot(range(100), range(100)) #If comment the following line everything is fine ax.set_xscale('log') xaxis = ax.get_xaxis() xaxis.grid(False, which='minor') xaxis.grid(False, which='major') plt.show() Hope

Re: [Matplotlib-users] draw lines in basemap

2012-03-01 Thread Paul Hobson
David, The loop is you have is unnecessary. You can plot the markers and the lines at the same time like so: from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import matplotlib.lines as lines import numpy as np m =

Re: [Matplotlib-users] draw lines in basemap

2012-03-01 Thread Paul Hobson
, y = m(lons, lats) # forgot this line m.plot(x, y, 'D-', markersize=10, linewidth=2, color='k', markerfacecolor='b') m.drawcoastlines() plt.show() On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Paul Hobson pmhob...@gmail.com wrote: David, The loop is you have is unnecessary. You can plot the markers

Re: [Matplotlib-users] histogram and a line

2012-03-08 Thread Paul Hobson
Jerzy et al, Check out the axvline method (of pyplot or an axes object). You'll only have to specify the x-value, and it'll won't rescale your y-axis. -paul On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 4:50 AM, Jerzy Karczmarczuk jerzy.karczmarc...@unicaen.fr wrote: Nicolas Rougier, (to Mic, who can't see a

Re: [Matplotlib-users] open ascii grid data and plot

2012-03-08 Thread Paul Hobson
In my GIS experience, rasters don't have prj files. That's something that seems to be pretty specific to ESRI shapefiles. Point is, I don't think that's going to help you. All of the basemap examples use netcdf files. I think your path of least resistance right now is to figure out how to convert

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to remove x axis in a subplotted graph

2012-03-19 Thread Paul Hobson
Try it like this: fig, axes = plt.subplots(3,1,1) ax1, ax2, ax3 = axes p1, = ax1.plot(self.data0,self.data1) p2, = ax2.plot(self.data0,self.data2) p3, = ax3.plot(self.data0,self.data4) for ax in axes:

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to remove x axis in a subplotted graph

2012-03-19 Thread Paul Hobson
Sorry...That first line should be: fig, axes = plt.subplots(ncols=3) # note: subplotS not subplot On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Paul Hobson pmhob...@gmail.com wrote: Try it like this:               fig, axes = plt.subplots(3,1,1)               ax1, ax2, ax3 = axes               p1, = ax1

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Not understable behavior

2012-03-20 Thread Paul Hobson
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:27 AM, kususe kus...@interfree.it wrote: If I set the parameter transparent in the savefig function, more line are plotted out on the same figure, when I use the subplot function too. If I don't set it, all works well. Suggestions? I don't follow what you're saying

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Formatting the ticks in a plot

2012-03-29 Thread Paul Hobson
Brad, Matplotlib axes objects have set_xticklabels methods. It's brute force, but this will work: ax = gca() ax.set_xticks([0., 0.015, 0.03]) ax.set_xticklabels(['0', '0.015', '0.03']) Hope that helps, -paul On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Brad Malone brad.mal...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib installation

2012-03-31 Thread Paul Hobson
How did you install Python 2.7? None of my windows machines have ever hand any problem finding it when I installed from the official binaries found at python.org. -paul On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Mateusz J Burgunder mburgun...@wesleyan.edu wrote: Hello, I am trying to download matplot

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How do I set grid spacing?

2012-04-10 Thread Paul Hobson
Ben Does ax.set_xlim([0,50]) do what you want it to do? -paul On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Ben Harrison ben.harri...@liquidmesh.com wrote: I create my figure in my (non-interactive) script like so: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111) ax.plot(...)

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Bug in legend?

2012-04-16 Thread Paul Hobson
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Yannick Copin yannick.co...@laposte.net wrote: Hi List, I think I found a bug in legend of a fill command (see attached code and figure) when the facecolor is 'none' but the alpha is not None (I'm using latest matplotlib 1.1.0). If confirmed, should I fill in

Re: [Matplotlib-users] xticks label disappear for the first subplot AND shift the xticks label to the left

2012-04-20 Thread Paul Hobson
Pietro, Try the following: -set minor ticks at half intervals between your major ticks -labeling those as you currently label the major ticks -remove the minor tick markers (set markersize=0?) -clear out the major tick labels -paul On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Pietro peter.z...@gmail.com

Re: [Matplotlib-users] howto get minor ticks?

2012-05-15 Thread Paul Hobson
Neal, I can't run your script as is, but something as simple as this show work: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111) ax.set_xscale('log') ax.xaxis.grid(True, which='major') ax.xaxis.grid(True, which='minor') plt.show() On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:18 AM,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] trouble with Wt argument of matplotlib.mlab.PCA

2012-06-12 Thread Paul Hobson
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Justin R justinbr...@gmail.com wrote: operating system Windows 7 matplotlib version : 1.1.0 obtained from sourceforge the class seems to generate the same Wt matrix for every input. The every element of the weight matrix is either +sqrt(1/2) or -sqrt(1/2).

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plot line/Line2D with edgecolor

2012-06-27 Thread Paul Hobson
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Daniel Platz mail.to.daniel.pl...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, I would like to plot a simple line using plt.plot(x, y, ‘w--’, lw=2) or with the corresponding axes instance ax.plot(x, y, ‘w--’, lw=2). However, I want the line to have a thin black edge like the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] installing matplotlib on mac os X with the *.dmg file

2012-08-17 Thread Paul Hobson
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Timothy Duly timdu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble installing matplotlib on mac os x. I downloaded the dmg file (matplotlib-1.1.1-py2.7-python.org-macosx10.6.dmg) from http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.1.1/ .

Re: [Matplotlib-users] boxplot -- how (more)

2012-08-21 Thread Paul Hobson
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Virgil Stokes v...@it.uu.se wrote: In reference to my previous email. How can I find the outliers (samples points beyond the whiskers) in the data used for the boxplot? Here is a code snippet that shows how it was used for the timings data (a list of 4

Re: [Matplotlib-users] boxplot -- how (more)

2012-08-21 Thread Paul Hobson
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Virgil Stokes v...@it.uu.se wrote: On 21-Aug-2012 17:50, Paul Hobson wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Virgil Stokes v...@it.uu.se wrote: In reference to my previous email. How can I find the outliers (samples points beyond the whiskers) in the data

Re: [Matplotlib-users] example of pareto chart

2012-09-25 Thread Paul Hobson
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Paul Tremblay paulhtremb...@gmail.com wrote: Here is my example of a Pareto chart. For an explanation of a Pareto chart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_chart Could I get this chart added to the matplolib gallery? Thanks Paul On 9/24/12 4:40

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Eclipse with PyDev on Ubuntu - updating matplotlib version in eclipse ide

2012-10-05 Thread Paul Hobson
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Harshad Surdi harshadsu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am using Eclipse IDE for Java Developers with PyDev on Ubuntu 12.04 and I am quite new to Ubuntu and Eclipse. Can you guide me as to hos to update matplotlib in PyDev in Eclipse? -- Best Regards, Harshad

Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to reverse the colorbar and its label at the same time?

2012-11-10 Thread Paul Hobson
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Chao YUE chaoyue...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, Is there a way to reverse the colorbar label, the default is small value at the bottom and big value at the top, yet I would like the big value at the bottom and small value at the top. all code in pylab

Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to put colorbar label beside the handle?

2012-11-10 Thread Paul Hobson
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Chao YUE chaoyue...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, In the colorbar label for contourf or imshow plot, I want the effect like that in the attached figure. Is there some way to move the position of colorbar label? could someone give any hints? Chao, It's not

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plot multiple lines

2012-11-15 Thread Paul Hobson
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Boris Vladimir Comi gle...@comunidad.unam.mx wrote: Hi all: I have begun to learn about python / matplolib / basemap and really need some help. My data is in an Excel workbook in format .xls or csv(see attached): 1. How to open excel file in python? 2.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] ipython --pylab: Figure not showing in simple plot(1, 1) command [v1.2]

2012-12-10 Thread Paul Hobson
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Timothy Duly timdu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded to matplotlib v1.2.0 on my Linux machine. For some reason, plots are not appearing at all on my screen whenever I try to plot any routines. When I open the interpreter with ipython --pylab and

Re: [Matplotlib-users] semilog minor grid problem

2012-12-12 Thread Paul Hobson
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Forrester, Kurt kurt.forrester@gmail.com wrote: ax.set_xlim(0.5, 2) ax.set_xscale('log', basex=2, subsx=range(2,9)) Kurt, That `subsx` kwarg is tricky. Does this example get you closer to what you want? import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to provide colorbars for scatterplots created this way?

2012-12-20 Thread Paul Hobson
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Kynn Jones kyn...@gmail.com wrote: I create PNG files of scatterplots with code that, in essence, goes as in the sketch below: cmap = (matplotlib.color.LinearSegmentedColormap. from_list('blueWhiteRed', ['blue', 'white', 'red'])) fig =

Re: [Matplotlib-users] rectangle 3D with transparency

2012-12-26 Thread Paul Hobson
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Diego Avesani diego.aves...@gmail.comwrote: Dear all, I need to plot a 2D rectangle in a 3D plot. I already know how to put a circle. I have started from: http://matplotlib.org/examples/mplot3d/pathpatch3d_demo.html and inserting the alpha parameter. *p =

Re: [Matplotlib-users] open circles aren't showing up in the legend box

2013-01-03 Thread Paul Hobson
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Joe Louderback jglouderb...@gmail.comwrote: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig = plt.figure() plot = fig.add_subplot(111) plot.scatter([1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], c = [0.2, 0.4, 0.6], label = 'one', cmap = 'jet', marker = 'o', edgecolor = 'face')

Re: [Matplotlib-users] legend on a plot with broken_barh()

2013-01-04 Thread Paul Hobson
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 8:41 AM, gsal salger...@gmail.com wrote: So, it looks like broken_barh's do not show up on the legend...is there work around for this? Or, Is there a way to fake a legend? A way to set legend to whatever I want? Thanks, gsal To fake a legend, try using

Re: [Matplotlib-users] legend on a plot with broken_barh()

2013-01-04 Thread Paul Hobson
[Forgot to reply-all, sorry for the dup, gsal] On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:22 PM, gsal salger...@gmail.com wrote: can you provide an example? The reference help is only two lines! Given: [code] import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111)

Re: [Matplotlib-users] mathtext and fonts under Windows 8

2013-01-09 Thread Paul Hobson
Sounds like it might have something to do with your Latex installation (if any) or the barebones Latex-rendering done by MPL alone. Namely, they simply don't have the characters for mathematical Arial available. Not too sure though. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable responds. -paul On Tue,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Clipped colorbar values in matshow

2013-01-14 Thread Paul Hobson
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Alejandro Weinstein alejandro.weinst...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Paul Hobson pmhob...@gmail.com wrote: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np A = np.random.rand(100,10) / 100 fig, ax = plt.subplots() img

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to start when you don't know what to do

2013-01-15 Thread Paul Hobson
On Jan 15, 2013, at 20:52 , Steven Boada wrote: Heyya list. I must admit that my matplotlib-foo is only so so. One of the biggest problems that I face is seeing cool stuff around the net, and thinking, that's pretty neat, I'd like to copy it. In reality, I have no idea how I would go

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Text positioning anchored to its bounding box

2013-01-16 Thread Paul Hobson
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Daniele Nicolodi dani...@grinta.netwrote: Hello, I use matplotlib.pyplot.text() to annotate my plots. When annotating reference lines on simple x,y plots I find it quite annoying to have to manually compute an offset in data coordinates to have some spacing

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib lag on windows seven

2013-01-18 Thread Paul Hobson
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Fabien Lafont lafont.fab...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks! I have:Qt4Agg 2013/1/17 Benjamin Root ben.r...@ou.edu On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Fabien Lafont lafont.fab...@gmail.comwrote: What is a backend??? The version number? I'm using Matplotlib

Re: [Matplotlib-users] twiny and title

2013-01-22 Thread Paul Hobson
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Jonathan Slavin jsla...@cfa.harvard.eduwrote: Hi, I'm having some trouble with using twiny and a title on the plot. The title is writing over the axis label -- and even the tick labels. I've tried tight_layout() but it doesn't seem to help. I could use

Re: [Matplotlib-users] getting the dimensions of an axes

2013-01-23 Thread Paul Hobson
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 4:28 AM, Kelson Zawack k...@cornell.edu wrote: a heat map and want to label each row. I thus need the font size of the text to scale with the number of rows in the heat map. Is Assuming you start out with this: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig, ax1 =

Re: [Matplotlib-users] cannot directly reply to the mail?

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Hobson
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Chao YUE chaoyue...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, why I can only recieve the Matplotlib-users Digest, but not the email. Each time I need to go http://matplotlib.1069221.n5.nabble.com/matplotlib-users-f3.html to reply the the mail. I think I must miss

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problems installing matplotlib - compiling error

2013-01-28 Thread Paul Hobson
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Orgun ambr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guy, as I'm new to matplotlib I tried to install it following the instructions on http://matplotlib.org/faq/installing_faq.html#source-install-from-git http://matplotlib.org/faq/installing_faq.html#source-install-from-git

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plot trajectories on an map using matplotlib-basemap

2013-01-29 Thread Paul Hobson
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Boris Vladimir Comi gle...@comunidad.unam.mx wrote: #! /usr/bin/python import numpy as np data = np.loadtxt('path-tracks.csv',dtype=np.str,delimiter=',',skiprows=1) print data [['19.70' '-95.20' '2/5/04 6:45 AM' '1' '-38' 'CCM'] ['19.70'

Re: [Matplotlib-users] cross correlation

2013-02-07 Thread Paul Hobson
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Sudheer Joseph sudheer.jos...@yahoo.comwrote: Dear Users, I am relatively new to Matplotlib. I wanted to find cross correlation between 2 time series for my research and was looking at options available with python and found

Re: [Matplotlib-users] I cannot change the axis tick separation or nbins in Axis artist

2013-02-21 Thread Paul Hobson
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 1:08 AM, patricia ptramba...@hotmail.com wrote: Dear Jody, This is the original code that I am using: http://old.nabble.com/Taylor-diagram-(2nd-take)-p33364690.html It is a code that plots Taylor diagrams. I would like to get ticks every two points in the standard

Re: [Matplotlib-users] changing the shade of a color depending on a value

2013-02-27 Thread Paul Hobson
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Rita rmorgan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am currently plotting cpu utilization over time (plot_time). I would like the color of my line to be red when at 100%. 80-90% a bit less red, more yellow, and lower numbers will be green. Any thoughts of doing this? A

Re: [Matplotlib-users] cross correlation

2013-02-27 Thread Paul Hobson
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Sudheer Joseph sudheer.jos...@yahoo.comwrote: Dear Pierre, I was checking the plt.xcorr and it calls the np.correlate in side it. It calls np.correlate(ts1,ts2, mode=2). Is there a way to see which vector is sided back in time? ie

Re: [Matplotlib-users] View datetime corresponding to x coordinate of cursor

2013-03-04 Thread Paul Hobson
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:23 AM, William Furnass w...@thearete.co.ukwrote: Several backends will show you the x and y float values that correspond to the current cursor position in a plot() but are there backends that show the _datetime_ corresponding to the x position if the plotted data is

Re: [Matplotlib-users] data format question

2013-03-06 Thread Paul Hobson
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Clifford Lyon clifford.l...@gmail.comwrote: I wish to make a boxplot with data in this format: Value, Frequency 0, 128329 1, 20390 2, 230 3, 32 4, 3 etc. Rather than expand this into a flat array, is there some way to pass in weights for values? Some

Re: [Matplotlib-users] boxplot

2013-03-14 Thread Paul Hobson
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:40 AM, paul.czodrow...@merckgroup.com wrote: Dear Matplotlibbers, I'm running matplotlib 1.1.0 and would like to plot pairs of values, e.g. [[0.27,0.43],[0.17,0.35]] When using boxplot, the values of the pairs correspond to the outer whiskers, but I would like

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Evolution of the interface

2013-03-15 Thread Paul Hobson
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Christophe BAL projet...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I really appreciate the work done by matplotlib but I really think that the interface must evolve. Here is a small example. *object.set_something(...)* *object.get_something()* It could be easier to

Re: [Matplotlib-users] windrose

2013-03-19 Thread Paul Hobson
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:22 AM, Sudheer Joseph sudheer.jos...@yahoo.comwrote: Dear users, Attached is a windrose diagram created by using https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=239240package_id=290902. Can any one tell me if the numbers displayed in

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Aligning xticks and labels with WeekdayLocator

2013-03-19 Thread Paul Hobson
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: Matplotlib 1.2.0, Windows Vista, Python 3.3.0. I want the first major xtick label aligned with the first date that's plotted. This never happens with the value of day below set in the range zero to six. The first

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Aligning xticks and labels with WeekdayLocator

2013-03-19 Thread Paul Hobson
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Paul Hobson pmhob...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: Matplotlib 1.2.0, Windows Vista, Python 3.3.0. I want the first major xtick label aligned with the first date that's plotted. This never

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problems with sans-serif fonts and tick labels with TeX

2013-05-02 Thread Paul Hobson
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Michael Droettboom md...@stsci.edu wrote: I think the confusion here stems from the fact that you're mixing TeX and non-TeX font commands. This turns on TeX mode, so all of the text is rendered with an external TeX installation: rc('text', usetex=True)

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problems with sans-serif fonts and tick labels with TeX

2013-05-03 Thread Paul Hobson
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 6:17 AM, Michael Droettboom md...@stsci.edu wrote: On 05/02/2013 03:16 PM, Paul Hobson wrote I now see that this was more of TeX issue than an MPL configuration issue. Your help prompted me to find this solution (similar to yours): mpl.rcParams

Re: [Matplotlib-users] missing ticks on inverted log axis

2013-05-15 Thread Paul Hobson
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 3:48 PM, gaspra yes2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am having troubles to correctly make a figure with inverted log axis. This is what I am doing: import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt y=np.linspace(-90,90,20) z=np.arange(1,1.e4, 200)

Re: [Matplotlib-users] why legend does not show in matplotlib-1.2.1 py2.7

2013-05-23 Thread Paul Hobson
Sorry I have to be so brief, but just like the error says, you fed the legend function the wedges returned by the pie command. But legend can't handle wedges. As the proxy artist tutorial hints, you need to feed it rectangles created manually (i.e., outside of any plotting commands). Hope that

Re: [Matplotlib-users] time series

2013-06-05 Thread Paul Hobson
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Sudheer Joseph sudheer.jos...@yahoo.comwrote: Dear Users, Is there any other method in matplotlib to get the plot similar to the one there in below link? http://dsnra.jpl.nasa.gov/software/Python/scikits/lib.plotting.examples.html I tried

Re: [Matplotlib-users] time axis format

2013-06-10 Thread Paul Hobson
sudheer.jos...@yahoo.com *To:* Paul Hobson pmhob...@gmail.com *Cc:* matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Sent:* Saturday, 8 June 2013 7:46 PM *Subject:* Re: [Matplotlib-users] time axis format Thank you Paul for the helping hand

Re: [Matplotlib-users] full grid for 2nd y-axis wit twinx() ?

2013-06-13 Thread Paul Hobson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 4:47 AM, Daniel Mader danielstefanma...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I need a twinx() plot with horizontal and vertical grid lines for the second axis, just like the usual grid for the first axis. I don't need or want to specify the ticks manually, though! My example

Re: [Matplotlib-users] savefig

2013-06-14 Thread Paul Hobson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Sudheer Joseph sudheer.jos...@yahoo.comwrote: Thank you, I don't see a way other than starting in normal mode as the moment I type plot command it get displayed and I don't need to do a show command. In the qtconsole, you can enter multi-line mode with

Re: [Matplotlib-users] full grid for 2nd y-axis wit twinx() ?

2013-06-14 Thread Paul Hobson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Daniel Mader danielstefanma...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Paul, I've modified your suggestion a little, since I don't want a grid for the primary axis at all -- unfortunately to no avail, i.e. no grid line at all: import numpy import matplotlib

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Asking for help modifying a matplot windrose graphic using Python (:

2013-07-22 Thread Paul Hobson
Guilherme, Check out my implementation of windroses here: https://github.com/phobson/python-metar/blob/master/metar/graphics.py#L138 On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Guilherme Araújo Martins gami...@globo.com wrote: Hello guys. I'm having a problem with a matplot graphic and I guess it can

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Font in figures needs to load a specific latex package \usepackage{tipa}

2013-07-25 Thread Paul Hobson
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Jeffrey Spencer jeffspenc...@gmail.comwrote: I want to use IPA vowel labels in my figures and to do that I need to load the package in latex \usepackage{tipa}. Is this possible as searching online besides using the new backend pgf I haven't seen how to

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [matplotlib-devel] I have a Mac!

2013-08-16 Thread Paul Hobson
Mike, That's great news. Is there any chance we can look forward to official instructions for setting up a Mac to develop matplotlib? I gave up a long time ago and started piecing to together my meager PRs in a linux VM. -paul On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Michael Droettboom md...@stsci.edu

Re: [Matplotlib-users] x axis non-uniform labeling (KURT PETERS)

2013-09-30 Thread Paul Hobson
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 1:43 PM, KURT PETERS petersk...@msn.com wrote: I'm including the code below to demonstrate the problem. The top should have simtimedata (0 through 28) labeling the points. As you can see, MATPLOTLIB just distributes those values evenly instead of assigning them

Re: [Matplotlib-users] x axis non-uniform labeling (KURT PETERS)

2013-10-01 Thread Paul Hobson
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 4:50 PM, KURT PETERS petersk...@msn.com wrote: That doesn't seem to fix it. What I'm expecting is at the top, 28 should correspond to the value -2. Instead it puts a 30 there. Kurt It's not really clear to me what you're trying to do. But the rounding of the axes

Re: [Matplotlib-users] indicating directions on stereographic projection.

2013-11-06 Thread Paul Hobson
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Sourav Chatterjee srv@gmail.comwrote: Hello, I have stereographic projection of the pole. I need to indicate the directions like north,south,east, west, north-east, north-west and so on. Is there any way to do so? Thanks Sourav I am **very far** from

Re: [Matplotlib-users] axes labelling

2013-11-23 Thread Paul Hobson
Hey Sourav, This example should demonstrate the basics of setting xticks and xticklabels http://matplotlib.org/examples/ticks_and_spines/ticklabels_demo_rotation.html On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 4:27 AM, Sourav Chatterjee srv@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I have simple xy plot using below. import

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Normalizing Marker Size in Legend

2013-12-05 Thread Paul Hobson
Matthew, I think you're on the right track. You need proxy artists of some sort. You can create Line2D objects directly, never add them to the figure, and then use those to create the legend. An alternatively/hacky approach I often use is to the plot all the real data with '_nolegend' labels,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Nanoseond timestamp on x axis

2013-12-19 Thread Paul Hobson
Here are a couple of examples of using custom formats: http://matplotlib.org/examples/api/date_index_formatter.html http://matplotlib.org/examples/pylab_examples/date_demo2.html And here's a link with all of the possible formatting strings: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/time_strftime.htm

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Interative legend manipulation?

2014-01-07 Thread Paul Hobson
I believe (as of v1.3.1) that after you create the legend you call leg.draggable(True) http://matplotlib.org/api/legend_api.html#matplotlib.legend.Legend.draggable On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 6:37 AM, Skip Montanaro s...@pobox.com wrote: Sometimes the legend simply gets in the way. You can't

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Most generic way to wrap collections

2014-01-07 Thread Paul Hobson
Adam, Not sure if this is the try you're trying to bark up, but I've used a total hack to do what I think you're describing: 1) store lists of coordinate pairs in a pandas DataFrame 2) use df.apply() to turn each list of coords in to a patch and add to an axes object I'm sure you know this,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting NOAA grib2 data in basemap

2014-01-09 Thread Paul Hobson
As the error message says, the problem is on Line 14: print f.variables['WWSWHGT_P0_L1_GLL0'] a KeyError means that you tried to access an element that is not in a dictionary. In this case f.variables is the dictionary and ' WWSWHGT_P0_L1_GLL0' is the element. Did your data and script come of

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting NOAA grib2 data in basemap

2014-01-09 Thread Paul Hobson
I think you posted the same image in both cases. Without seeing the problematic image, I can only guess that it's caused by the resolution of your data. On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 7:58 AM, A Short surfersh...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Paul, Thanks for your reply, I managed to fix it after I realised

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting NOAA grib2 data in basemap

2014-01-09 Thread Paul Hobson
What I'm saying is that your top image and bottom image are identical and I don't see any white boxes in either. What is the resolution of the grid? -paul On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:59 AM, A Short surfersh...@hotmail.com wrote: ok the file im using is this multi_2.glo_30m.t06z.grib2 from here

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting NOAA grib2 data in basemap

2014-01-09 Thread Paul Hobson
How does it look if you remove the calls to `m.drawcoastlines()` and ` m.fillcontinents()`? On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:05 PM, A Short surfersh...@hotmail.com wrote: Thats strange they look different on this browser. Hopefully the one below youll see what i mean Thanks

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting NOAA grib2 data in basemap

2014-01-09 Thread Paul Hobson
Looks like it's just a coarse resolution to me. Try showing the data as an image with no iterpolation. On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 3:26 PM, A Short surfersh...@hotmail.com wrote: Ive also changed the grib file from multi_2.glo_30m.t06z.grib2 to nww3.t12z.grib.grib2 i still cant figure out which is

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting a series of 3d quadrilaterals as a wireframe

2014-02-05 Thread Paul Hobson
Not quite sure exactly what you need to do, but it sounds like separate calls to `plot` for each quadrilateral will do the trick. -paul On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Pedro Marcal pedrovmar...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know how to separately plot the quadrilaterals after plotting each of them

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Documentation for mpl_toolkits.basemap

2014-02-13 Thread Paul Hobson
It's not the wrong place, per se. But I think if you created an issue on the github repository, it's less likely to get lost in the ether. https://github.com/matplotlib/basemap On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Roman Olson roman.ol...@unsw.edu.auwrote: Hi All, I am new to this list so I

Re: [Matplotlib-users] plotting two functions on the same figure but with two different scales on y axis

2014-02-14 Thread Paul Hobson
Hey Gabriele, See this example here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14762181/adding-a-y-axis-label-to-secondary-y-axis-in-matplotlib/14762601#14762601 On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Gabriele Brambilla gb.gabrielebrambi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to plot two functions on the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] colorbllind problem

2014-02-17 Thread Paul Hobson
Adam, Look into the seaborn project: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/mwaskom/seaborn/blob/master/examples/aesthetics.ipynb it's easy enough to define your own color palettes or select existing ones. -paul On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Adam Hughes hughesada...@gmail.comwrote: I'm

Re: [Matplotlib-users] colorbllind problem

2014-02-17 Thread Paul Hobson
(bbox_to_anchor=(1.05, 1), loc=9, borderaxespad=0.) lotgr.canvas.draw() thanks Gabriele 2014-02-17 14:46 GMT-05:00 Paul Hobson pmhob...@gmail.com: Adam, Look into the seaborn project: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/mwaskom/seaborn/blob/master/examples/aesthetics.ipynb it's easy

Re: [Matplotlib-users] colorbllind problem

2014-02-18 Thread Paul Hobson
-02-17 20:57 GMT-05:00 Paul Hobson pmhob...@gmail.com: Untested, of course, but I would do something like this: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import seaborn N = len(As) myPallette = seaborn.color_palette(skyblue, N) # use the name of any mpl colormap here seaborn.set_color_pallette

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [os x] Can't get IPython to use latest version of matplotlib

2014-02-21 Thread Paul Hobson
It appears that you have two different version of python installed (Apple's 2.7.3 and python.org's 2.7.5). You have to install all third-party packages to the correct one. It appears pip in acting on Apple's python. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Timothy Duly timdu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] grid of subplot

2014-02-23 Thread Paul Hobson
You're not adding your subplot to an existing figure, so a new one is created. put fig = plt.figure(...) at the top of your script and replace axii = plt.subplot(numalp, numobs, axisNum) with axii = fig.add_subplot(numalp, numobs, axisNum) On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Gabriele Brambilla

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Loding CSV file and plotting histogram of a particular column

2014-02-28 Thread Paul Hobson
Sounds like you want to use pandas, not numpy. import pandas import matplotlib.pyplot as plt df = pandas.read_csv('myfile.txt', sep='\t') plt.hist(data['A'], bins=30) ...should do it for you. On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:06 AM, AR12 aarthi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a csv file where

Re: [Matplotlib-users] imshow for .png- low resultion

2014-03-05 Thread Paul Hobson
Olga Botnivik is doing some work with these types of figures in her fork of the seaborn project. Example here: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/olgabot/8341784 Link to the PR in github: https://github.com/mwaskom/seaborn/pull/73 Those might be a good place to start. On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at

Re: [Matplotlib-users] multiplot in a for loop

2014-03-10 Thread Paul Hobson
Gabriele, I'm confused. I only see 1 series in each subplot. Could you trim your example down into some code that we can copy, paste, and run? A more thorough description of the problem might help too. -p On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Gabriele Brambilla gb.gabrielebrambi...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Matplotlib-users] multiplot in a for loop

2014-03-10 Thread Paul Hobson
Paul Hobson pmhob...@gmail.com: Gabriele, I'm confused. I only see 1 series in each subplot. Could you trim your example down into some code that we can copy, paste, and run? A more thorough description of the problem might help too. -p On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Gabriele Brambilla

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Is there interrest for an implementation of colour maps visualising small differences around 0

2014-03-14 Thread Paul Hobson
Pål, Matplotlib already has a jet colormap and has moved away from using it as the default for the very reasons listed in the first paper you site. How is your jet colormap different? Can you provide a comparison with the existing colormap? Does it overcome the drawbacks listed in the Sandia

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