Hello Homer (even if I would have rather called you with your proper name) On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 02:30, (_8*(l)Homer <letourneau....@gmail.com> wrote: > Like the title of the post says, this is a totally noobie question. I have > an older system running Kubuntu 7.04 with Matplotlib 0.90.0 and for the life > of me, I can't figure out how to start the program.
It seems you missed a "little" bit: matplotlib is not a program :) Matplotlib is a library you can use while programming in python to generate graphs. Let me give you a very simple example (I'll be using ipython, but take the code and put it into the python interpreter or in a script and it will work the same): $ ipython Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Feb 18 2009, 03:00:47) Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. IPython 0.9.1 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. ? -> Introduction and overview of IPython's features. %quickref -> Quick reference. help -> Python's own help system. object? -> Details about 'object'. ?object also works, ?? prints more. In [1]: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt In [2]: import numpy as np In [3]: x = np.arange(0,2*np.pi,.01) In [4]: y = np.sin(x**2)*np.exp(-x) In [5]: plt.plot(x, y) Out[5]: [<matplotlib.lines.Line2D object at 0x1ab5810>] In [6]: plt.show() I hope you'll find it interesting, and explore more about matplotlib. Cheers, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
