On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:10 PM, John Hunter<jdh2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The gallery is becoming the goto place for most users of the website, > and I would like as many examples as possible to run after a simple > download to the desktop . I am sensitive to packagers who may not > want to ship large amounts of data w/ the main library, so we may want > to minimize the amount we ship in mpl-data which > matplotlib.get_example_data uses, but it may be a good idea to setup a > new svn directory at the top level (mpl_data) and write a urllib > enabled matplotlib.get_example_data that fetches it from the repo if > it can't find it locally. OK, I committed a first pass at this to HEAD. I created a new svn directory called mpl_data svn co https://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/matplotlib/mpl_data and a cbook.get_mpl_data function, as used in this example:: import matplotlib.cbook as cbook import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fname = cbook.get_mpl_data('lena.png', asfileobj=False) print 'fname', fname im = plt.imread(fname) plt.imshow(im) plt.show() The function will check ~/.matplotlib/mpl_data and fetch it using urllib from svn HEAD if it is not there, caching in the process. It would be nice to support an svn revision (w/o relying on svn) as I note in this comment in get_mpl_data: # TODO: how to handle stale data in the cache that has been # updated from svn -- is there a clean http way to get the current # revision number that will not leave us at the mercy of html # changes at sf? If others agree w/ the basic concept, we should port as many data requiring examples over, removing data from examples/data and lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/example as we go. This will result in smaller tarballs and binaries, and make the examples more portable. JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
