Hi,
On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 07:47 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just because the discussion about clabel started, I want to post a > short > snipplet of code that I found useful. It was some sort of hack to get > a > nicer float formating for contours: contour lines represented > confidence > levels of 1, 2.5, 5 and 10 per cent, and I wanted a labeling exactly > as > I have written it here now. So, fmt='%.1f\%%' would have resulted in > 1.0% 2.5% 5.0% ... but I wanted 1% 2.5% 5% ... > > So this was my solution: > > > # some kind of hack: a nicer floating point formating > class nf(float): > def __repr__(self): > str = '%.1f' % (self.__float__(),) > if str[-1]=='0': > return '%.0f' % self.__float__() > else: > return '%.1f' % self.__float__() > > levels = [nf(val) for val in [1.0, 2.5,5.0,10.0] ] > > pylab.clabel(cs, inline=True, fmt='%r \%%') > > > As I said, it's sort of a hack but it works! It might not be worth to > add this to mpl, but probably as an example ...!? > > Manuel Along these lines, I have been thinking that it would be a simple addition to allow fmt to be a dictionary (as an alternative to a string) that matches contour levels with the desired text. This would allow users to label contours with arbitrary strings, which is occasionally useful. If there is interest, I will add this feature. Cheers, David -- ********************************** David M. Kaplan Charge de Recherche 1 Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement Centre de Recherche Halieutique Mediterraneenne et Tropicale av. Jean Monnet B.P. 171 34203 Sete cedex France Phone: +33 (0)4 99 57 32 27 Fax: +33 (0)4 99 57 32 95 http://www.ur097.ird.fr/team/dkaplan/index.html ********************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
