Francesco Montesano, on 2011-03-17 12:05, wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have a rather complex code that takes a list of file names and of
> legend tags from command line and compute contour plots
>
> ./contour_plots.py [options] filename1 ... filename2 tag1 ... tagn
>
> The codes make filled contours at required levels, then line contours.
> >From the latter I extract one line from each file and create a legend
>
> spl.legend(lines, [tag1...tagn], other options)
>
> All it works fine. The only problem is that sometimes I have tags that
> are long and I would like to be able to break between multiple lines.
> In examples/legend_demo3.py is shown that 'ax1.plot([1],
> label="multi\nline")' the \n is interpreted (correctly) as new line.
>
> Normaly I have something like
> ./contour_plots.py [options] filename1 \(long\)tag\$_\{very long\}\$
> that gives me a legend with the correct formatting. If I try to add a
> '\n' after 'tag', I get out the tag as before plus a 'n' after 'tag'.
> I've tried to enclose the whole string or just \n in "" or r"" but
> nothing good happens (either I get 'n' or 'rn').
> Is there a way to do what I want to do?Hi Francesco, If you are using bash, you can insert newlines using the Enter/Return key if you start an argument with a quote like this: $ cat commandline.py #!/usr/bin/env python import sys print "Program output:", sys.argv print sys.argv[-1] $ ./commandline.py "something with newlines" Program output: ['./commandline.py', 'something\nwith\nnewlines'] something with newlines best, -- Paul Ivanov 314 address only used for lists, off-list direct email at: http://pirsquared.org | GPG/PGP key id: 0x0F3E28F7
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d
_______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
