Pylab is just a name for a module in matplotlib that is supposed to mimic
matlab. I would say its intent it to ease the transition for matlab users.
It wouldn't really make sense to refer to matplotlib as pylab. The
matplotlib.pyplot is favored over the pylab module now.
- Charlie
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 1:28 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> So is matplotlib the name of the low level plotting engine?
>
> And, pylab is the user-friendly wrapper?
>
> Would it be ok to call the whole system "Pylab" instead of Matplotlib then?
>
>
> Chris
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