Joey Wilson wrote: > I would like to be able to save the figures from > matplotlib in an editable form, without flattening down to an image > file.
> Now, I understand that resources are limited, so I would be willing to > raise some money to get this feature added to Matplotlib. I think to do this right, you'd need to completely re-design MPL to be based on a more declarative structure: i.e. you'd define what the objects were in a figure, and MPL would generate the figure from the declaration -- much like how an drawing is generated from SVG. Maybe it's not as big a re-factor I think it is, but it seems that MPL is built to be used from a scripting interface instead: a series of commands that builds the figure. Honestly, for your purposes, I don't know that there is much difference. I suppose what you are looking for a is a way to get a script that you could edit and re-run, but have it generated from a figure automatically, the figure itself could have been generated by a different script (intermeshed with computational code), or an interactive session, or.... That would be pretty cool, but I think a bit of re-factoring of your process would make it pretty easy to edit and re-run your scripts anyway. > I > would really like to completely replace Matlab with Python,Scipy, and > Matplotlib. How does Matlab handle this? In my Matlab days, I wrote scripts that generated my figures, and when I needed to change them, I edited the scripts and re-ran them -- exactly the workflow we're suggesting for Python/MPL. But that was 10 years ago... -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer NOAA/OR&R/HAZMAT (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
