[Matplotlib-users] Line clipping on subplot border mandatory?

2011-05-30 Thread Mondsuechtiger
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Hello,

I would like to stack subplots in a figure with a couple of basic
x,y-line plots with the subplot frames removed.
But possible overlap of subplots is limited, because the drawn data
lines are clipped on the border, if you'd lets say manually reset the
ylims and decrease it below the highest data y-values.
I know it is possible with any kind of text or data annotation, but do
not find a way to let the data lines cross the frame border.

I hope I made myself halfway clear - pls. don't hesitate to ask if not.
Does one of you possibly have a solution or is it maybe plain
impossible?
Thanks!

Cheers,
Nix
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Re: [Matplotlib-users] Exact semantics of ion()??

2011-05-30 Thread Eric O LEBIGOT (EOL)

Thank you for your response.


Benjamin Root-2 wrote:
 
 On Sunday, May 29, 2011, Eric O LEBIGOT (EOL)
 eric.lebi...@normalesup.org wrote:

 What does ion() exactly do?
$$$
 from matplotlib import pyplot as pp

 pp.plot([10, 20, 50])
 pp.draw()

 raw_input('Press enter...')  # No graph displayed?!!
$$$
 
 Turning interactive mode on also means an implied show command, if
 needed.  The first program can replace draw() with show().  However,
 if interactive mode is off, then the python execution pauses.  With it
 on, python execution will continue.
 
So, if anything is drawn when interactive mode is off, does one *have* to
use show() at the end?  in other words does using a single raw_input() at
the end of the program force the use of the interactive mode for *all*
figures? (Closing all the figures with a simple enter is very convenient,
but having a performance penalty for this would not be so nice…).

Now, if I understand you correctly, I have another question.  I don't
understand anymore what draw() does: in fact, it is not necessary in
interactive mode, and it does not appear to do anything in non-interactive
mode, since show() is really the function that really displays the figures. 
So, why does matplotlib offer draw()?  what does it really do?

EOL

PS: Here is an example: the following code does *not* display the first
figure (Matplotlib 1.0.0 on Mac OS X with the GTKAgg backend):
$$$
from matplotlib import pyplot as pp

pp.figure()
pp.plot([10, 20, 50])
pp.draw()  # Will not be displayed despite the draw()

pp.ion()  # Interactive mode on
pp.figure()
pp.plot([100, 20, 10])

raw_input('Press enter...')  # Only the second graph is displayed
$$$
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Re: [Matplotlib-users] embedding subset of fonts when saving to pdf

2011-05-30 Thread Simon Jesenko
Thank you for the info.

I added the issue to the github for now.

I will inspect the source whether there is an easy way to add subsetting 
of fonts for usetex=True case as well.

Simon

On 05/27/2011 05:02 PM, Michael Droettboom wrote:
 Ah, yes.  That is all true.  I'm not sure what options there may be in
 that case.

 Mike

 On 05/27/2011 10:56 AM, Simon Jesenko wrote:
 Setting 'pdf.fonttype'=3 had no effect, embedded fonts are of fonttype=1
 nonetheless. I guess that pdf.fonttype parameter is used only when
 matplotlib uses it's own engine to render latex, and not when
 text.usetex=true is used.

 Cairo backend is not support when text.usetex=true (only Agg, pdf and ps
 according to documentation)

 On 05/27/2011 03:53 PM, Michael Droettboom wrote:
 Have you tried setting the rcParams pdf.fonttype to 3?  That should
 subset the fonts.

 Also, the Cairo backend supports font subsetting.

 Mike

 On 05/27/2011 07:00 AM, Simon Jesenko wrote:
 Hi,

 I have a problem with large file-sizes of plots saved to pdf, when using
 rcParams['text.usetex']=True

 Files are very large (~150kb for simple line plot with some mathematical
 latex expressions) as all fonts are fully embedded into pdf. When
 resulting pdf is postprocessed (e.g. as is
 http://zeppethefake.blogspot.com/2008/05/embedding-fonts-in-pdf-with-ghostscript.html),
 so that only subset of fonts is embedded, file size is reduced
 drastically(e.g. from 150kb to 15kb).

 Is there a way to enable embedding of subset of fonts in matplotlib?

 I am using matplotlib version 0.99.3.

 Did anyone else experience similar problems/found solution?

 Thank you for info/assistance!
 Simon

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Re: [Matplotlib-users] Not able to access CSV file:

2011-05-30 Thread Daniel Mader
Hi,

the content of the CSV is stored as an array after reading. You can
simply access rows and columns like in Matlab:

firstrow = a1[0]
firstcol = a1.T[0]

The .T transposes the array.

The second element of the third row would be

elem32 = a1[2][1]
which is equivalent to
elem32 = a1[2,1]

A range of e.g. rows 3 to 6 is
range36 = a1[2:6]

Please have a look here for getting started with scipy/numpy:
http://pages.physics.cornell.edu/~myers/teaching/ComputationalMethods/python/arrays.html
and
http://www.scipy.org/NumPy_for_Matlab_Users

Hope this helps,
Daniel

2011/5/27 Karthikraja Velmurugan velmurugan.karthikr...@gmail.com:
 Hello Daniel,

 The code you have given is simple and works fab. Thank you very much. But I
 wasn't able to find an example which accesses the columns of a CSV files
 when I import data through datafile=filename.csv option. It will be
 great if you could help with accessing individual columns. What excatly I am
 looking for is to access individual coulmns (of the same CSV file), do
 calculations using the two coumns and plot them into seperate subplots of
 the same graph.
 I modified the script a lil bit. Please find it below:

 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 import pylab
 datafile1 = 'ch1_s1_lrr.csv'
 datafile2 = 'ch1_s1_baf.csv'
 a1 = pylab.loadtxt(datafile1, comments='#', delimiter=';')
 b1 = pylab.loadtxt(datafile2, comments='#', delimiter=';')
 v1 = [0,98760,0,1]
 v2 = [0,98760,-2,2]
 plt.figure(1)
 plt.subplot(4,1,1)
 print 'loading', datafile1
 plt.axis(v2)
 plt.plot(a1, 'r.')
 plt.subplot(4,1,2)
 print 'loading', datafile2
 plt.axis(v1)
 plt.plot(b1, 'b.')
 plt.show()

 Thank you very much in advance for your time and suggestions.

 Karthik

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[Matplotlib-users] mpl newbie question...

2011-05-30 Thread Corbin Fletcher
I am a college student and I want to be able to use matplotlib to plot 
publishing quality graphs
and embed them into my pdf documents (all composed with latex) for 
college. This would give my documents a more professional look.

I do not know the first thing about Python language. And I am only able 
to create a very simple pie graph by using and editing a script file 
from mpl's website.

But things are not going well and I do not want to use any other 
programs such as GNUplot or other such open source programs which run on 
my linux machine and I am not purchasing any anything developed by 
Micro$oft.

I have come to a road block and need guidance regarding what materials 
(e.g. books) I should purchase to help teach myself python/mathplolib or 
how I should move forward to become proficient use mpl?

I know little or nothing now so any newbie advice is much appreciated. 

Thanks in advance.
 




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Re: [Matplotlib-users] Exact semantics of ion()??

2011-05-30 Thread Benjamin Root
On Monday, May 30, 2011, Eric O LEBIGOT (EOL)
eric.lebi...@normalesup.org wrote:

 Thank you for your response.


 Benjamin Root-2 wrote:

 On Sunday, May 29, 2011, Eric O LEBIGOT (EOL)
 eric.lebi...@normalesup.org wrote:

 What does ion() exactly do?
$$$
 from matplotlib import pyplot as pp

 pp.plot([10, 20, 50])
 pp.draw()

 raw_input('Press enter...')  # No graph displayed?!!
$$$

 Turning interactive mode on also means an implied show command, if
 needed.  The first program can replace draw() with show().  However,
 if interactive mode is off, then the python execution pauses.  With it
 on, python execution will continue.

 So, if anything is drawn when interactive mode is off, does one *have* to
 use show() at the end?  in other words does using a single raw_input() at
 the end of the program force the use of the interactive mode for *all*
 figures? (Closing all the figures with a simple enter is very convenient,
 but having a performance penalty for this would not be so nice…).


Yes, if interactive mode is off, and you want to view the figures, you
need show(). No, the raw_input does nothing in either case.


 Now, if I understand you correctly, I have another question.  I don't
 understand anymore what draw() does: in fact, it is not necessary in
 interactive mode, and it does not appear to do anything in non-interactive
 mode, since show() is really the function that really displays the figures.
 So, why does matplotlib offer draw()?  what does it really do?


The draw() command is used for some more advanced features such as
animations and widgets, as well as for internal use.  I rarely use
draw() in my scripts.

May I suggest reading the FAQ and some of the example scripts on the
website in order to demonstrate the different ways to use mpl?

Ben Root


 EOL

 PS: Here is an example: the following code does *not* display the first
 figure (Matplotlib 1.0.0 on Mac OS X with the GTKAgg backend):

Off the top of my head, this is either a bug that has been fixed, or
is intended behavior.  Turning interactive mode on after having made a
figure might be confusing pyplot.  Calling show at anytime will
produce the intended behavior.  show() is your friend.



 $$$
 from matplotlib import pyplot as pp

 pp.figure()
 pp.plot([10, 20, 50])
 pp.draw()  # Will not be displayed despite the draw()

 pp.ion()  # Interactive mode on
 pp.figure()
 pp.plot([100, 20, 10])

 raw_input('Press enter...')  # Only the second graph is displayed
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Re: [Matplotlib-users] Line clipping on subplot border mandatory?

2011-05-30 Thread Benjamin Root
On Monday, May 30, 2011, Mondsuechtiger el_lunat...@gmx.net wrote:
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 Hello,

 I would like to stack subplots in a figure with a couple of basic
 x,y-line plots with the subplot frames removed.
 But possible overlap of subplots is limited, because the drawn data
 lines are clipped on the border, if you'd lets say manually reset the
 ylims and decrease it below the highest data y-values.
 I know it is possible with any kind of text or data annotation, but do
 not find a way to let the data lines cross the frame border.

 I hope I made myself halfway clear - pls. don't hesitate to ask if not.
 Does one of you possibly have a solution or is it maybe plain
 impossible?
 Thanks!

 Cheers,
 Nix

Maybe you want to use matplotlib's spine feature?  You are right that
you can't plot outside the plotable region, but maybe you can emulate
what you want by moving the axes lines into the plottable region.

I hope that helps!

Ben Root


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Re: [Matplotlib-users] Exact semantics of ion()??

2011-05-30 Thread Eric O LEBIGOT (EOL)


Benjamin Root-2 wrote:
 
 On Monday, May 30, 2011, Eric O LEBIGOT (EOL)
 eric.lebi...@normalesup.org wrote:

 Benjamin Root-2 wrote:
 So, if anything is drawn when interactive mode is off, does one *have* to
 use show() at the end?  in other words does using a single raw_input() at
 the end of the program force the use of the interactive mode for *all*
 figures? (Closing all the figures with a simple enter is very
 convenient,
 but having a performance penalty for this would not be so nice…).

 
 Yes, if interactive mode is off, and you want to view the figures, you
 need show(). No, the raw_input does nothing in either case.
 
 Now, if I understand you correctly, I have another question.  I don't
 understand anymore what draw() does: in fact, it is not necessary in
 interactive mode, and it does not appear to do anything in
 non-interactive
 mode, since show() is really the function that really displays the
 figures.
 So, why does matplotlib offer draw()?  what does it really do?

 
 The draw() command is used for some more advanced features such as
 animations and widgets, as well as for internal use.  I rarely use
 draw() in my scripts.
 
Thank you for the follow up.

I wish that Matplotlib provided a mechanism for bypassing show(), because
show() is actually not my friend. :-)  In fact, with show(), I hate having
to close one by one each of the 12 figures that my script creates each time
I run it.

The Matplotlib documentation indeed lists many ways to use Matplotlib. 
However, I was trying to get beyond recipes and to get a deeper
understanding of what Matplotlib does, so as to avoid wasting too much time
when trying to do something that is not in one of those recipes.  Like
stopping a program that was fully or partially in run in non-interactive
mode, without having to use this dreaded show()…

Thank you again for your input.  It is good to know the limitations of
Matplotlib.  Maybe it is time to suggest the feature I mentioned to the dev
list??
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Re: [Matplotlib-users] Exact semantics of ion()??

2011-05-30 Thread Benjamin Root
On Monday, May 30, 2011, Eric O LEBIGOT (EOL)
eric.lebi...@normalesup.org wrote:


 Benjamin Root-2 wrote:

 On Monday, May 30, 2011, Eric O LEBIGOT (EOL)
 eric.lebi...@normalesup.org wrote:

 Benjamin Root-2 wrote:
 So, if anything is drawn when interactive mode is off, does one *have* to
 use show() at the end?  in other words does using a single raw_input() at
 the end of the program force the use of the interactive mode for *all*
 figures? (Closing all the figures with a simple enter is very
 convenient,
 but having a performance penalty for this would not be so nice…).


 Yes, if interactive mode is off, and you want to view the figures, you
 need show(). No, the raw_input does nothing in either case.

 Now, if I understand you correctly, I have another question.  I don't
 understand anymore what draw() does: in fact, it is not necessary in
 interactive mode, and it does not appear to do anything in
 non-interactive
 mode, since show() is really the function that really displays the
 figures.
 So, why does matplotlib offer draw()?  what does it really do?


 The draw() command is used for some more advanced features such as
 animations and widgets, as well as for internal use.  I rarely use
 draw() in my scripts.

 Thank you for the follow up.

 I wish that Matplotlib provided a mechanism for bypassing show(), because
 show() is actually not my friend. :-)  In fact, with show(), I hate having
 to close one by one each of the 12 figures that my script creates each time
 I run it.

 The Matplotlib documentation indeed lists many ways to use Matplotlib.
 However, I was trying to get beyond recipes and to get a deeper
 understanding of what Matplotlib does, so as to avoid wasting too much time
 when trying to do something that is not in one of those recipes.  Like
 stopping a program that was fully or partially in run in non-interactive
 mode, without having to use this dreaded show()…

 Thank you again for your input.  It is good to know the limitations of
 Matplotlib.  Maybe it is time to suggest the feature I mentioned to the dev
 list??

I am not sure exactly what feature you are asking for.  If you are in
interactive mode, you could setup a key binding to call a function to
close all figures.  Another route to go is to take advantage of
subplots and reduce the number of figures you need to have.

Also, it bares repeating.  You may be experiencing some bugs with
interactive mode in v1.0.0.  Some very important bugfixes were made
wrt interactive mode for the v1.0.1 release.  I know the sourceforge
page still points to v1.0.0, that is a problem that I hope to have
fixed later in the next few days.

Ben Root

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Re: [Matplotlib-users] Exact semantics of ion()??

2011-05-30 Thread Eric O LEBIGOT (EOL)


Benjamin Root-2 wrote:
 
 On Monday, May 30, 2011, Eric O LEBIGOT (EOL)
 I wish that Matplotlib provided a mechanism for bypassing show(), because
 show() is actually not my friend. :-)  In fact, with show(), I hate
 having
 to close one by one each of the 12 figures that my script creates each
 time
 I run it.

 (…)
 stopping a program that was fully or partially in run in non-interactive
 mode, without having to use this dreaded show()…
 (…)
 
 I am not sure exactly what feature you are asking for.  If you are in
 interactive mode, you could setup a key binding to call a function to
 close all figures.  Another route to go is to take advantage of
 subplots and reduce the number of figures you need to have.
 
The keybinding idea is interesting, but the goal is to work in
*non*-interactive mode (for optimization purposes), and the feature I would
love is simply to be able to display graphs in this mode without using
show().  Subplots are unfortunately not an option for me, as each of the
numerous graph must be independent (they are each saved in a specific file).


Benjamin Root-2 wrote:
 
 Also, it bares repeating.  You may be experiencing some bugs with
 interactive mode in v1.0.0.  Some very important bugfixes were made
 wrt interactive mode for the v1.0.1 release.  I know the sourceforge
 page still points to v1.0.0, that is a problem that I hope to have
 fixed later in the next few days.
 
Thanks, I'll definitely check out version 1.0.1.  The feature I wish existed
is unfortunately relevant to the *non*-interactive mode.

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Re: [Matplotlib-users] mpl newbie question...

2011-05-30 Thread C M
I do not know the first thing about Python language.But things are not
 going well


That's not a but but an of course.  How could they possibly go well
already?
It takes time to learn something.  You will get there, bit by bit.


 and I do not want to use any other
 programs such as GNUplot or other such open source programs which run on
 my linux machine and I am not purchasing any anything developed by
 Micro$oft.


I'm curious.  Why not?


 I have come to a road block and need guidance regarding what materials
 (e.g. books) I should purchase to help teach myself python/mathplolib or
 how I should move forward to become proficient use mpl?


For Python, there are tons of online tutorials such as Alan Gauld's as well
as any
number of books (Google for recommendations or search the Python Google
Group
for very many iterations of asking for recommendations).

For specific questions, the Python tutor list is great, and now Stack
Overflow is also
very good. For specific Matplotlib questions beyond the tutorial or
examples, either
SO or this list is excellent. There is now a matplotlib book by Sandro Tosi,
too.


 I know little or nothing now so any newbie advice is much appreciated.


I recommend that you write down a set of goals for what you want to
accomplish,
and then tackle them one by one.
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Re: [Matplotlib-users] Exact semantics of ion()??

2011-05-30 Thread Eric Firing
On 05/30/2011 06:42 AM, Eric O LEBIGOT (EOL) wrote:


 Benjamin Root-2 wrote:

 On Monday, May 30, 2011, Eric O LEBIGOT (EOL)
 I wish that Matplotlib provided a mechanism for bypassing show(), because
 show() is actually not my friend. :-)  In fact, with show(), I hate
 having
 to close one by one each of the 12 figures that my script creates each
 time
 I run it.

 (…)
 stopping a program that was fully or partially in run in non-interactive
 mode, without having to use this dreaded show()…
 (…)

 I am not sure exactly what feature you are asking for.  If you are in
 interactive mode, you could setup a key binding to call a function to
 close all figures.  Another route to go is to take advantage of
 subplots and reduce the number of figures you need to have.

 The keybinding idea is interesting, but the goal is to work in
 *non*-interactive mode (for optimization purposes), and the feature I would
 love is simply to be able to display graphs in this mode without using
 show().  Subplots are unfortunately not an option for me, as each of the
 numerous graph must be independent (they are each saved in a specific file).

Is it correct that you want interactive mode, except that you want to 
control when drawing occurs, for purposes of efficiency?  If so, use 
interactive mode, but instead of using the pyplot interface for the 
actual plotting, use the OO interface, and call plt.draw() when you want 
to update a plot.  See
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/usage_faq.html#matplotlib-pylab-and-pyplot-how-are-they-related
although this does not give precisely the example to match your case.

Eric



 Benjamin Root-2 wrote:

 Also, it bares repeating.  You may be experiencing some bugs with
 interactive mode in v1.0.0.  Some very important bugfixes were made
 wrt interactive mode for the v1.0.1 release.  I know the sourceforge
 page still points to v1.0.0, that is a problem that I hope to have
 fixed later in the next few days.

 Thanks, I'll definitely check out version 1.0.1.  The feature I wish existed
 is unfortunately relevant to the *non*-interactive mode.




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Re: [Matplotlib-users] Line clipping on subplot border mandatory?

2011-05-30 Thread Eric Firing
On 05/30/2011 05:21 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
 On Monday, May 30, 2011, Mondsuechtigerel_lunat...@gmx.net  wrote:
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 Hello,

 I would like to stack subplots in a figure with a couple of basic
 x,y-line plots with the subplot frames removed.
 But possible overlap of subplots is limited, because the drawn data
 lines are clipped on the border, if you'd lets say manually reset the
 ylims and decrease it below the highest data y-values.
 I know it is possible with any kind of text or data annotation, but do
 not find a way to let the data lines cross the frame border.

You can cross the Axes frame border by turning off clipping:

ll = plot([-1, 1])[0]
axis([0.1, 0.95, -1, 1])
ll.set_clip_on(False)
draw()

Eric



 I hope I made myself halfway clear - pls. don't hesitate to ask if not.
 Does one of you possibly have a solution or is it maybe plain
 impossible?
 Thanks!

 Cheers,
 Nix

 Maybe you want to use matplotlib's spine feature?  You are right that
 you can't plot outside the plotable region, but maybe you can emulate
 what you want by moving the axes lines into the plottable region.

 I hope that helps!

 Ben Root


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Re: [Matplotlib-users] Line clipping on subplot border mandatory?

2011-05-30 Thread Benjamin Root
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Eric Firing efir...@hawaii.edu wrote:

 On 05/30/2011 05:21 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
  On Monday, May 30, 2011, Mondsuechtigerel_lunat...@gmx.net  wrote:
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  Hello,
 
  I would like to stack subplots in a figure with a couple of basic
  x,y-line plots with the subplot frames removed.
  But possible overlap of subplots is limited, because the drawn data
  lines are clipped on the border, if you'd lets say manually reset the
  ylims and decrease it below the highest data y-values.
  I know it is possible with any kind of text or data annotation, but do
  not find a way to let the data lines cross the frame border.

 You can cross the Axes frame border by turning off clipping:

 ll = plot([-1, 1])[0]
 axis([0.1, 0.95, -1, 1])
 ll.set_clip_on(False)
 draw()

 Eric



Ah, I see.  I have to turn the clipping attribute off for the object(s)
being plotted, not for the axes object.  I learned something new today...

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Re: [Matplotlib-users] Exact semantics of ion()??

2011-05-30 Thread Eric O LEBIGOT (EOL)


efiring wrote:
 
 Is it correct that you want interactive mode, except that you want to 
 control when drawing occurs, for purposes of efficiency?
Thank you for your interest in this question, Eric!

The goal is to indeed control when drawing occurs, but also to not use
show() (because it cumbersome to have to close umpteen windows so as to
finish a Matplotlib program that opened lots of figures). (I checked the
examples that you referred to)

It looks like Matplotlib forces either to use the interactive mode (possibly
inefficient) or to use show() (possibly cumbersome).  I wish that Matplotlib
offers an alternative to this situation, but this looks less and less to be
the case.  That's something I would like to suggest to the devs.
:-)
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[Matplotlib-users] Line2D drawstyle

2011-05-30 Thread Jason Grout
In the docs for Line2D, it says that the linestyle can be any drawstyle 
in combination with a linestyle, e.g. 'steps--'.  However, this doesn't 
seem to work in practice.  I believe I have matplotlib 1.0.1 here:

In [2]: from matplotlib import lines

In [3]: line=lines.Line2D([0,1,2],[0,1,4], linestyle='steps--')

In [4]: line.get_drawstyle()
Out[4]: 'default'

In [5]: line.get_linestyle()
Out[5]: '--'


Note that if I specifically set the linestyle using set_linestyle, it 
appears to parse out the drawstyle:

In [11]: line.set_linestyle('steps--')

In [12]: line.get_drawstyle()
Out[12]: 'steps'


However, if I plot the line using the plot() command, the drawstyle is 
correctly set to 'steps'.


In [6]: from matplotlib import pyplot

In [7]: line2=pyplot.plot([0,1,2],[0,1,4], linestyle='steps--')

In [8]: line2
Out[8]: [matplotlib.lines.Line2D object at 0x114fcb110]

In [9]: line2[0].get_drawstyle()
Out[9]: 'steps'

In [10]: line2[0].get_linestyle()
Out[10]: '--'

Should Line2D parse out the drawstyle from the linestyle, or are the 
docs wrong about the Line2D linestyle parameters, or am I just 
misunderstanding something here?

Thanks,

Jason

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Re: [Matplotlib-users] Exact semantics of ion()??

2011-05-30 Thread Benjamin Root
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Eric O LEBIGOT (EOL) 
eric.lebi...@normalesup.org wrote:



 efiring wrote:
 
  Is it correct that you want interactive mode, except that you want to
  control when drawing occurs, for purposes of efficiency?
 Thank you for your interest in this question, Eric!

 The goal is to indeed control when drawing occurs, but also to not use
 show() (because it cumbersome to have to close umpteen windows so as to
 finish a Matplotlib program that opened lots of figures). (I checked the
 examples that you referred to)

 It looks like Matplotlib forces either to use the interactive mode
 (possibly
 inefficient) or to use show() (possibly cumbersome).  I wish that
 Matplotlib
 offers an alternative to this situation, but this looks less and less to be
 the case.  That's something I would like to suggest to the devs.
 :-)


Question: would displaying a figure (or a group of figures), pausing to let
you close them, and then continuing to the next figures more along the lines
of what you want?  That is certainly possible with matplotlib.  Since
v1.0.0, multiple calls to show() is allowed (although you may need v1.0.1
for certain backends to do this correctly).

Furthermore, I think Eric Firing's point was that mpl is fully capable of
doing what you want.  The automatic draws are only done if the calls come
through pyplot or pylab and if interactive mode is on.  There might be a few
minor exceptions to this rule, but those shouldn't cause significant
overhead.  If you call the drawing commands directly, then a refresh does
not occur until you tell it to with a call to draw().  In pyplot, nearly all
drawing commands have as the final step a call to a function called
draw_if_interactive().  This function does exactly what it says.
Therefore, if you want interactive mode, but do not want a refresh after
each pyplot command, then don't use the pyplot commands!  Just use the
objects' drawing commands (which is what pyplot calls).

Also, note that matplotlib is hierarchical.  You could call directly call
draw() on each object you want re-drawn, but you don't have to.  You can
give a single call to a parent object that would call draw() for all of its
children objects.  So, a figure object has (among other things) axes objects
as children.  An axes object has (among other things) various collection
objects from the plotting commands as its children.  Maybe a look at some of
the animation examples might be a good way to illustrate this.  I would
suggest looking at the older animation examples on sourceforge where the
internals are all laid out.

I hope this is helpful,
Ben Root
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