[Matplotlib-users] open figures list

2006-12-06 Thread belinda thom
Hello, Is there a way to return a list of all the open figure numbers? For instance, if I had: close('all') figure(1) [some plotting] figure(5) [some plotting] I'd like to be able to have access to a command that returns the list [1, 5]. Thanks, --b

[Matplotlib-users] more outdated/unhelpful documentation and installation issues on Mac OS X 10.4

2006-12-08 Thread belinda thom
Hi again, At http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/installing.html under topic OS X: All of the backends run on OS X. Chris Barker has built a binary package (fink users see below) for matplotlib which is hosted on pythonmac, and works with Agg, Wx and Tk; see the step-by-step instructions

[Matplotlib-users] obtaining version info

2006-12-08 Thread belinda thom
Hi, Perhaps I'm missing something really basic, but I can't figure out how to query pylab as to what version it is (the usual import foo, foo.__version doesn't work). Advice appreciated. --b - Take Surveys. Earn Cash.

[Matplotlib-users] out-dated documentation

2006-12-08 Thread belinda thom
and much more; see MacEnthon. should be removed. Whoever maintains this page should make the appropriate change. On Dec 6, 2006, at 11:38 PM, Robert Kern wrote: belinda thom wrote: I do not want to compile code myself unless absolutely necessary. I was wondering what was up with the MacEnton

[Matplotlib-users] two y axes via twinx and legends

2006-12-09 Thread belinda thom
Hi, This mailing list is great---I've gotten a couple very useful replies from others in a very short time period. Thanks! And now, onto my next question. I need to construct a two-y-axis plot. I've found some hints on how to do this on the mailing archive (Subject: secondary y-axis, Date:

Re: [Matplotlib-users] more outdated/unhelpful documentation and installation issues on Mac OS X 10.4

2006-12-09 Thread belinda thom
Note: there is a type-o in the above email. W/MacPorts, I've been able to get the TkAgg backend to work should be W/MacPython, I've been able to get the TkAgg backend to work - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence

Re: [Matplotlib-users] two y axes via twinx and legends

2006-12-09 Thread belinda thom
Looks like I've been able to help myself on this one. I'll post this here b/c others had asked about this in prior emails and I never saw an answer given. You can make your own custom legend by keeping the return values from each plot command: e.g. l1 = plot(y1's stuff) twinx() l2 =

[Matplotlib-users] matplotlibrc numerix Numeric problem

2006-12-29 Thread belinda thom
Hi, I'm unable to use matplotlib when I have the following line in my matlabplotrc file: numerix Numeric. There is no problem when I use: numerix numpy Here's my setup: Mac G5 w/OS X 10.4.8, using MacPython 2.4, numpy.__version__ is 1.0, matplotlib.__version__ 0.87.7 and

[Matplotlib-users] archives

2006-12-29 Thread belinda thom
Hi, The source forge archive for this mailing list: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php? forum_id=33405max_rows=25style=ultimateviewmonth=200612 has no posts listed as of 12/24/06. I've posted several things today and would like to be able to view their progress. Has this archive

[Matplotlib-users] load_demo.py

2007-01-02 Thread belinda thom
Hi, The documentation for pylab.load mentions the load_demo.py example. I can't find this on my distribution. I believe all Pylab examples live in site-packages/doc/matplotlib, for in there are files like log_demo.py (the only file that begins with load is load_converter.py, which is

[Matplotlib-users] saving data to a file

2007-01-02 Thread belinda thom
Hi, Is there a way for me to keep adding the next row of a 2d array to a file via load? (matlab's save had a very useful -append option). I managed to get 2d laod/save working, e.g. import numpy as N import pylab as P import bthom.utils as U # a numpy 2d array a =

[Matplotlib-users] clearing a figure

2007-01-09 Thread belinda thom
Hello, I'm a new matplotlib user, coming from the Matlab end. Is there a standard way to create a figure (here I'd like the equivalent of matlab's hold on, so I can draw multiple things) and then clear the figure (so the drawing goes away) so I can repeat the process again? The commands to

Re: [Matplotlib-users] clearing a figure

2007-01-09 Thread belinda thom
. Is passing a hold=False arg to a drawing command the preferred way to clear a figure, or is clear() not working properly? Many thanks, --b On Jan 9, 2007, at 7:50 PM, belinda thom wrote: Hello, I'm a new matplotlib user, coming from the Matlab end. Is there a standard way to create a figure

[Matplotlib-users] idle and ipython and axis

2007-01-09 Thread belinda thom
Hi, I've been playing w/both IDLE and IPython, using TkAgg in both cases as the back end. Also, I've got the latest matplotlib and ipython versions and am using MacPython's 2.4.4 IDLE. It seems that if IDLE is not invoked w/the -n flag, the figures that are drawn can often get the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] idle and ipython and axis

2007-01-10 Thread belinda thom
Mark, BTW, when you use pylab in interactive mode, the axis() command should scale your figure interactively, also under IDLE. Have you tried that? Yes, I tried using axis in both IDLE and IPython. IPython's redrew the axis automatically whereas IDLE's did not. I am not sure, but I

Re: [Matplotlib-users] installing numpy, matplotlib, scipy from source on a Mac

2007-01-10 Thread belinda thom
I am posting this message to both numpy and matplotlib mailing lists because the thread relates to both. First, Robert Kern kindly provided step-by-step instructions for Macs (PPCs and Intels) regarding how to install FROM SOURCE the packages needed to allow Python to become a viable

Re: [Matplotlib-users] installing numpy, matplotlib, scipy from source on a Mac

2007-01-11 Thread belinda thom
PPS: Belinda, now that you've done all this work, I do hope you can go the extra mile and figure out how to make a binary package of it all for others! I certainly would like to to do this, but its gonna have to wait until after TheCurrentCrisis alleviates. Hopefully before Feb (in the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [Pythonmac-SIG] Compiling Scipy/available binaries for Universal Python 2.4?

2007-01-11 Thread belinda thom
FWIW On Jan 11, 2007, at 5:29 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: On 1/11/07, Nicholas Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 02:21:19PM -0800, Christopher Barker wrote: Is it that hard to make a binary to put up (OK, two - one for PPC, one for Intel), once you've gotten it all built?

Re: [Matplotlib-users] clearing a figure

2007-01-11 Thread belinda thom
Hi, With the exception of ipython -pylab, noone is forcing you to import *. And on the subject, Fernando, perhaps we should support a pylab mode in ipython which doesn't dump the pylab namespace (or maybe just dumps the required figure, show, close, nx), but does the interactive backend

[Matplotlib-users] reversing an axis

2007-03-23 Thread belinda thom
Hi, I'm wondering if there's an easy way to reverse an axis in a plot. For instance, suppose I wanted to create a plot that had its origin in the upper left hand corner, so that x would range from, say 0 to 1 moving right, and y would range from, say 0 to 1, moving down. Thanks! --b

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

2007-03-23 Thread belinda thom
Hi, I'm trying to write a very simple GUI using matplotlib and have gotten stuck. Hopefully someone out there has done something similar and can point me on my way. First, I should mention that the examples provided with matplotlib weren't immediately helpful to me, because when I try to

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

2007-04-05 Thread belinda thom
On Apr 5, 2007, at 6:27 AM, John Hunter wrote: On 4/5/07, belinda thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My app needs to look something like this: -- create a game and display it in a matplotlib figure while game not over : if its player 1's turn, get player 1's valid mouse input

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

2007-04-05 Thread belinda thom
On Apr 5, 2007, at 1:20 PM, Ken McIvor wrote: On Apr 5, 2007, at 2:14 PM, belinda thom wrote: I do think its valuable to be able to write a blocking mouse function. After your pointer to Timer (which led me to the threading Python library) and idle handler (which I didn't find useful doc

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

2007-04-08 Thread belinda thom
Thanks everyone for the advice. For anyone in my boat following this thread, here's what I ended up doing: Had a stroke of insight and coded the whole thing up (poorly) using maptlotlib w/no polling. In other words, the entire API sat in the mouse click callback function. Lame,

[Matplotlib-users] 3d plotting question

2007-04-11 Thread belinda thom
Hi, I'm having problems plotting two different kind of graphs on the same 3D figure. Was hoping for some pointers. Here's some basic test code, to demonstrate what I'd like to be able to do. import copy import pylab as P import matplotlib.axes3d as P3 def test() : [X,Y] =

Re: [Matplotlib-users] 3d plotting question

2007-04-11 Thread belinda thom
I also seem to have some other 3D plotting problems. Again, following some of the demo/test advice in the cookbook, I tried things like import pylab as p import matplotlib.axes3d as P3 P3.test_surface() and get errors (seems Axes3D needs a figure, no?). I'm using matplotlib version

Re: [Matplotlib-users] 3D curve and errors in axes3d

2007-04-11 Thread belinda thom
Hi, I'm replying to this older thread http://www.mail-archive.com/matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net/ msg02100.html because it relates very much to my recent problem, posted at http:// www.mail-archive.com/matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net/ msg03037.html. This problem seems more

[Matplotlib-users] 3D plotting lines / markers / colors question

2007-04-11 Thread belinda thom
Hi, What kwargs are available for plot3D and scatter3D? Thanks, --b - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT

Re: [Matplotlib-users] 3D curve and errors in axes3d

2007-04-11 Thread belinda thom
On Apr 11, 2007, at 4:47 PM, belinda thom wrote: Hi, I'm replying to this older thread http://www.mail-archive.com/matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net/ msg02100.html because it relates very much to my recent problem, posted at http:// www.mail-archive.com/matplotlib-users

Re: [Matplotlib-users] 3d plotting question

2007-04-11 Thread belinda thom
Thanks for the input. Its easy for me to patch my own machine, but for students in my class who are using lab machines, its more difficult. Hopefully I can get someone to upgrade the machines in the lab I'm using. (Its difficult to get facilities people to agree to update coursework

Re: [Matplotlib-users] 3d plotting question

2007-04-11 Thread belinda thom
Hi Belinda, I've been playing with 3D plots and scatter plots in the past few days and I've been able to get them working. You should be able to pass in a c=color parameter as you would for a normal 2d scatter plot. I've been doing this and it's working for me. Interesting. I'm on Mac OS X

[Matplotlib-users] Fwd: 3d plotting question

2007-04-11 Thread belinda thom
forwarded message: From: Richard Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: April 11, 2007 8:41:37 PM PDT To: belinda thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] 3d plotting question On 12/04/07, belinda thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also seem to have some other 3D plotting problems. Again

Re: [Matplotlib-users] 3D curve and errors in axes3d

2007-04-11 Thread belinda thom
backend for which you can get away with using it more than once, but this is not good practice.) Eric belinda thom wrote: On Apr 11, 2007, at 4:47 PM, belinda thom wrote: Hi, I'm replying to this older thread http://www.mail-archive.com/matplotlib- [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ msg02100.html