Hello,
I am a relatively new user of matplotlib; thank you to the matplotlib team
for this excellent package.
I have a question about serializing matplotlib figures. I have searched for
serialization options for matplotlib figures but have not found much
information. I am interested to hear about serialization use cases and the
approaches others use in these cases.
Here is the reason I am asking:
My use case for serialization is that I want to build a CouchDB database of
matplotlib figures. The database could be accessed from a web application
(in my case I want to build a django app to create, edit and manage figures)
or desktop gui, or whatever. For storage of the figures in CouchDB, I am
working on JSON representations of matplotlib figures. The JSON could be
run through simple python functions to regenerate the matplotlib figures. I
have very simple working examples, but to more completely test out this
approach I would attempt to recreate the plots in the matplotlib gallery
using JSON representations and a small set of (hopefully) very simple python
functions which would process the JSON markup.
Before I get too far, I wanted to see what others have done for similar use
cases, make sure I am not missing existing approaches, etc. I am getting
ahead of myself now, but if there is broader interest in this approach, and
no other better solutions exist, I would set up a project on Google Code or
some other site to work on this.
Your feedback is very much appreciated.
Thanks!
Rich
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