Hi, This sounds actually very interesting. I have been thinking about how to save matplotlib figures in a way comparable to the Matlab .fig format: a file that holds the data (for instance using HDF5/pytables, some figures might hold a lot of data) and the plotting commands to exactly reconstruct the figure. However, I never got around of thinking about an actual implementation for Matplotlib. Hopefully your work can inspire me to actually get it started , and I will try to find some time to dig in your code the coming weeks.
At the Spyder mailing list the idea of saving figures a la Matlab briefly popped before as well: http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib/browse_thread/thread/bf582bac96ff875/d5e94fe9296afbe5 I think saving figures in this manner would be a nice feature for matplotlib. Thanks for sharing this! Regards, David PS: sorry to Sebastian for sending the message twice On 15/03/12 11:22, Sebastian Berg wrote: > Hey, > > last weekend I wrote a hook which can track figure creation. Basically > it takes care of creating the new figure and wraps it to track all > changes to it. Its a hack, and the code is not cleaned up or tested > much, but I like to do scripts that I run with many parameters to create > plots and it works well to allow me to open the figures in a way that I > can zoom, etc. and would allow editing (a bit) later on too. So while I > doubt the approach can be made something serious, and there are probably > things that don't work (right now 3D Axis can be done with a bit extra > but mouse zooming does not work inside a 3D Axis, though I think its > likely not difficult to change), I thought I would put it online because > I am not aware of any way to save matplotlib figures: > > https://github.com/seberg/haunter-for-matplotlib-figures > > Maybe someone finds it useful or interesting :) > > Regards, > > Sebastian Berg > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF email is sponsosred by: > Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
