[Matplotlib-users] Announcing JupyterCon 2017, August 23-25 in NYC!
Dear Jupyter Community, [ Forgive the cross-post, trying to spread the word to at least the most relevant communities ] it is my pleasure to announce that this year, we'll be having our first Jupyter community conference, JupyterCon. It will take place in August in NYC: http://jupytercon.com To accompany the conference launch, Brian and I drafted a little "State of Jupyter" post that we hope you'll find useful: https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/the-state-of-jupyter. For JupyterCon, we have partnered with O'Reilly Media, long-time supporters of the project and active publishers in the Python/Data Science space who have extensive experience running conferences. Andrew Odewahn, CTO of O'Reilly and I will be co-chairing the conference, and we hope many of you will be interested in participating with talk proposals, tutorials or attending to engage with your fellow Jupyter users and developers. We have a great program committee composed of a broad and diverse sample of our community, who will work with you to ensure you have a positive and productive experience submitting and preparing your talks, tutorials and activities. This is a big milestone for our project, and for me personally: I never imagined a tiny bit of Python config more than fifteen years ago would take us here, and I want to extend my most sincere gratitude to every single one of you who makes this possible. I also want to thank the entire team at O'Reilly for taking a risk with a project that has never held an event like this, as well as to our funders, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Helmsley Trust, without whose support we would not be where we are (this conference was in fact part of our current grant deliverables). Please spread the word, submit a proposal, and join us in NYC so we can have both a great event and a project that continues to grow and contribute to research, education, industry and more! Very best, Fernando -- Fernando Perez (@fperez_org; http://fperez.org) fperez.net-at-gmail: mailing lists only (I ignore this when swamped!) fernando.perez-at-berkeley: contact me here for any direct mail -- Fernando Perez (@fperez_org; http://fperez.org) fperez.net-at-gmail: mailing lists only (I ignore this when swamped!) fernando.perez-at-berkeley: contact me here for any direct mail -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to create interactive plots in jupyter python3 notebook?
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Andy Davidson <
a...@santacruzintegration.com> wrote:
> Thanks. %matplitlib notebook looks great!. As I move the mouse around I
> see values for x, and y . Any idea how I can get programmatic access to the
> mouse events? I.E. When a user clicks I need to fetch some additional info.
>
> I am sure there are many other things I’ll eventually want to do. For
> example I have several different lines on the same graph. I want to make it
> easy for the user to select values on a give line not just some random spot
>
> Are there any other code examples or documentation?
>
Unfortunately it doesn't work perfectly yet, see:
https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/issues/244
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/4582
But the following code can be used as a workaround, using an IPython widget
to display the event data:
```
%pylab notebook
import ipywidgets as widgets
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot(np.random.rand(10))
w = widgets.HTML()
def onclick(event):
w.value = 'button=%d, x=%d, y=%d, xdata=%f, ydata=%f'%(
event.button, event.x, event.y, event.xdata, event.ydata)
cid = fig.canvas.mpl_connect('button_press_event', onclick)
display(w)
```
Note, however, that at least for me, the interactive figures in the
notebook are getting auto-closed for reasons I don't understand:
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/6075.
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Re: [Matplotlib-users] Looking for feedback on figures using matplotlib and jupyter notebook
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Andreas Mueller <t3k...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all. > > This is about a joint jupyter-notebook / matplotlib problem I've been > thinking about. > So I'm writing a book using jupyter-notebook, and all my figures are > generated using matplotlib. > > In books, there is usually a figure caption with a running number and > some description. > From what I read, the best way to add captions is just using plt.text. > However, the caption should probably be in the markup, > not in a rendered PNG. I'm not sure if changing the backend might help, > but that probably doesn't make the notebook happy? > > The other problem is that I want to have running numbers that I can > refer to by a tag (as you would in latex). > That is more of a notebook problem, though. > > Any feedback would be very welcome > I've been wanting to do something about this problem for a while, but haven't had the cycles to work on it... Here's my current idea, perhaps I can goad you into implementing it :) I think that IPython.display should provide a Figure object, capable of wrapping any input image (with nice code to automatically swallow a matplotlib figure without asking the user to convert it to an image first), and taking an optional caption. Figure() would then produce as output the displayed image but with a bit of nice CSS to center it on the page, along with the caption. The trick is to send the entire data bundle correctly structured so that, at the other end, nbconvert could recognize these figures as such, and not only produce nice HTML, but more importantly, push them into the LaTeX output with the correct call to \figure, including \caption as well as size and placement specifiers. The signature of Figure() might be something like def Figure(fig, caption=None, width=None, height=None, latex_placement=None): I would try implementing this first as a standalone tool, and once it's been tested enough in real-world usage with both HTML and LaTeX output from nbconvert, it could be merged in. I suspect it's going to take a few iterations to get it right. But it's not particularly hard, and someone working on a book would be the perfect candidate to have enough test cases to be able to iterate until happy ;) If you think you want to take a stab at this, don't hesitate to ping us on the jupyter list. We can help with some of the more obscure parts of getting this to work on nbconvert (and there may be things I've overlooked in the sketch above). Cheers, f -- Fernando Perez (@fperez_org; http://fperez.org) fperez.net-at-gmail: mailing lists only (I ignore this when swamped!) fernando.perez-at-berkeley: contact me here for any direct mail -- Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311=/4140___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Lorenz: A Composition
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Prahas David Nafissian prahas.mu...@gmail.com wrote: For a little right brain diversion, here's what I created using matplotlib: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWkFnPHbHokfeature=youtu.be Enjoy! Wow! Thank you so much for sharing this, it's beautiful, and a really great combination of math and art. John would have loved it... :) Fernando Perez (@fperez_org; http://fperez.org) fperez.net-at-gmail: mailing lists only (I ignore this when swamped!) fernando.perez-at-berkeley: contact me here for any direct mail -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] what are the new features of nbagg?
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Thomas Caswell tcasw...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting, I was going off what the IPython devs said here https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/7774 That was just adding the notebook alias to the `%matplotlib` magic. The actual underlying functionality has been around for a while longer. -- Fernando Perez (@fperez_org; http://fperez.org) fperez.net-at-gmail: mailing lists only (I ignore this when swamped!) fernando.perez-at-berkeley: contact me here for any direct mail -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=190641631iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basic matshow question
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Nathan Goldbaum nathan12...@gmail.com wrote: Pylab is going to be removed in IPython 3.0 (in fact it's already gone in master) since it has several bad interactions with the rest of the numpy/scipy universe and leads to un-reproducible code. Quick clarifications: - `--pylab` as a command-line flag is strongly discouraged and we will likely remove it (having it in that location requires really awkward special-case code everywhere). But we'll probably keep the %pylab magic indefinitely, since it's useful for quick-and-dirty command-line work where you don't care about namespace pollution, just about minimizing typing and namespace access for convenience. - The %matplotlib magic can also be used without args, case in which it works like %pylab used to, and will pick up the user's default backend: In [1]: %matplotlib Using matplotlib backend: TkAgg In [2]: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt In [3]: plt.plot([1,2,3]) Out[3]: [matplotlib.lines.Line2D at 0x4b90ed0] Cheers f -- Fernando Perez (@fperez_org; http://fperez.org) fperez.net-at-gmail: mailing lists only (I ignore this when swamped!) fernando.perez-at-berkeley: contact me here for any direct mail -- Infragistics Professional Build stunning WinForms apps today! Reboot your WinForms applications with our WinForms controls. Build a bridge from your legacy apps to the future. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=153845071iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib history
Hi Ben, if by interactive plotting you refer to using it interactively via ipython and other such systems, there's a good part of that history that is spread somewhere between the early mpl and ipython archives AND John's and my personal inboxes. A good chunk of that (not all, mind you, since many others contributed) happened with John and I working on it, and sadly he's not with us and I had a loss of my early email (anything older than 2005) when I left the University of Colorado. I'd be happy to answer some questions if you have them, to the best of my memory. Probably quicker over skype/phone, ping me directly (at my Berkeley address) if you want. Cheers f On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Benjamin Root ben.r...@ou.edu wrote: Hello all, I am trying to put together notes for a writeup on a short history of matplotlib (in particular, its uses for interactive plotting). I have John Hunter's SciPy 2012 Keynote, which helps, but I was hoping for some other sources. Unfortunately, searching for matplotlib and history gets me lots of results on our trials and tribulations with version control... Anybody have anything bookmarked? Cheers! Ben Root P.S. - Yes... this is for a book. Stay tuned! -- Infragistics Professional Build stunning WinForms apps today! Reboot your WinForms applications with our WinForms controls. Build a bridge from your legacy apps to the future. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=153845071iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users -- Fernando Perez (@fperez_org; http://fperez.org) fperez.net-at-gmail: mailing lists only (I ignore this when swamped!) fernando.perez-at-berkeley: contact me here for any direct mail -- Infragistics Professional Build stunning WinForms apps today! Reboot your WinForms applications with our WinForms controls. Build a bridge from your legacy apps to the future. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=153845071iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] [ANN] IPython 1.0 is finally released, nearly 12 years in the making!
Sailer, in addition to the many more whose names are in our logs, we have a crazy amount of energy being poured into IPython. I hope we'll continue to harness it productively! The full list of contributors to this release can be seen here: http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/rel-1.0.0/whatsnew/github-stats-1.0.html # Release highlights * nbconvert: this is the major piece of new functionality in this cycle, and was an explicit part of our roadmap (https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/Roadmap:-IPython). nbconvert is now an IPython subcommand to convert notebooks into other formats such as HTML or LaTeX, but more importantly, it's a very flexible system that lets you write custom templates to generate new output with arbitrary control over the formatting and transformations that are applied to the input. We want to stress that despite the fact that a huge amount of work went into nbconvert, this should be considered a *tech preview* release. We've come to realize how complex this problem is, and while we'll make every effort to keep the high-level command-line syntax and APIs as stable as possible, it is quite likely that the internals will continue to evolve, possibly in backwards-incompatible ways. So if you start building services and libraries that make heavy use of the nbconvert internals, please be prepared for some turmoil in the months to come, and ping us on the dev list with questions or concerns. * Notebook improvements: there has been a ton of polish work in the notebook at many levels, though the file format remains unchanged from 0.13, so you shouldn't have any problems sharing notebooks with colleagues still using 0.13. - Autosave: probably the most oft-requested feature, the notebook server now autosaves your files! You can still hit Ctrl-S to force a manual save (which also creates a special 'checkpoint' you can come back to). - The notebook supports raw_input(), and thus also %debug. This was probably the main deficiency of the notebook as a client compared to the terminal/qtconsole, and it has been finally fixed. - Add %%html, %%svg, %%javascript, and %%latex cell magics for writing raw output in notebook cells. - Fix an issue parsing LaTeX in markdown cells, which required users to type \\\, instead of \\. -Images support width and height metadata, and thereby 2x scaling (retina support). - %%file has been renamed %%writefile (%%file) is deprecated. * The input transofrmation code has been updated and rationalized. This is a somewhat specialized part of IPython, but of importance to projects that build upon it for custom environments, like Sympy and Sage. Our full release notes are here: http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/rel-1.0.0/whatsnew/version1.0.html and the gory details are here: http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/rel-1.0.0/whatsnew/github-stats-1.0.html # Installation Installation links and instructions are at: http://ipython.org/install.html And IPython is also on PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipython # Requirements IPython 1.0 requires Python ≥ 2.6.5 or ≥ 3.2.1. It does not support Python 3.0, 3.1, or 2.5. # Acknowledgments Last but not least, we'd like to acknowledge the generous support of those who make it possible for us to spend our time working on IPython. In particular, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation today lets us have a solid team working full-time on the project, and without the support of Enthought Inc at multiple points in our history, we wouldn't be where we are today. The full list of our support is here: http://ipython.org/index.html#support Thanks to everyone! Please enjoy IPython 1.0, and report all bugs as usual! Fernando, on behalf of the IPython Dev Team. -- Fernando Perez (@fperez_org; http://fperez.org) fperez.net-at-gmail: mailing lists only (I ignore this when swamped!) fernando.perez-at-berkeley: contact me here for any direct mail -- Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with 2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] In Memoriam, John D. Hunter III: 1968-2012
Hi all, after John's untimely passing we had a memorial service in Chicago, but only a few on these lists were able to attend. At last week's scipy conference I read a slightly edited version of the eulogy from that memorial service, and I figured some of you might be interested if you missed the conference: http://blog.fperez.org/2013/07/in-memoriam-john-d-hunter-iii-1968-2012.html Cheers, f -- Fernando Perez (@fperez_org; http://fperez.org) fperez.net-at-gmail: mailing lists only (I ignore this when swamped!) fernando.perez-at-berkeley: contact me here for any direct mail -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] A generous donation of $10, 000 from Simula/Hans Petter Langtangen via NumFOCUS
Hi all, I just wanted to let you all know that Hans Petter Langtangen, well-known author of books on scientific Python and long-time champion of these tools at the University of Oslo for many years, has arranged for a donation of $10,000 to support matplotlib's development. Hans Petter is the Director of the Center for Biomedical Computing at Simula (http://home.simula.no/~hpl), where a number of projects use Python as key elements of their research, the Fenics platform being among the most well-known (http://fenicsproject.org). We have now confirmed that these funds have been transferred to the NumFOCUS donations account, where Michael and the rest of the team can make use of them. I wanted to publicly thank Hans Petter and Simula Labs for persistently jumping through the necessary hoops to make this possible, and to Leah, Travis and Anthony at NumFOCUS for managing the receiving side of things. -- Fernando Perez (@fperez_org; http://fperez.org) fperez.net-at-gmail: mailing lists only (I ignore this when swamped!) fernando.perez-at-berkeley: contact me here for any direct mail -- Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with 2% overhead Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib produced plots in academic journal articles
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Michael Droettboom md...@stsci.edu wrote:
This is a great idea. Anything to raise the level of perceived legitimacy
in the academic community would be great. We can definitely add content like
this to the documentation and/or website.
Our strategy:
- Prominent display on the main page of a citation request, along with
links on our top nav-bar:
http://ipython.org/#citing-ipython
- A copy/paste ready citation entry: http://ipython.org/citing.html
Matplotlib has a 'canonical' paper back in the same CISE issue that
can be used, here's the bibtex entry for it (should probably be
trimmed only to the main fields):
@Article{Hunter:2007,
Author = {Hunter, J. D.},
Title = {Matplotlib: A 2D graphics environment},
Journal= {Computing In Science \ Engineering},
Volume = {9},
Number = {3},
Pages = {90--95},
abstract = {Matplotlib is a 2D graphics package used for Python
for application development, interactive scripting, and
publication-quality image generation across user
interfaces and operating systems.},
address= {10662 LOS VAQUEROS CIRCLE, PO BOX 3014, LOS ALAMITOS,
CA 90720-1314 USA},
bdsk-url-1 =
{http://gateway.isiknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2SrcAuth=AlertingSrcApp=AlertingDestApp=WOSDestLinkType=FullRecord;KeyUT=000245668100019},
date-added = {2010-09-23 12:22:10 -0700},
date-modified = {2010-09-23 12:22:10 -0700},
isi= {000245668100019},
isi-recid = {155389429},
month = may # / # jun,
publisher = {IEEE COMPUTER SOC},
year = 2007
}
Cheers,
f
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Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib produced plots in academic journal articles
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Nelle Varoquaux nelle.varoqu...@gmail.com wrote: Here is an example on circos' website of how they advertise the use of their plotting library in research: http://circos.ca/intro/published_images/ Wow, that is one hell of a visually spiffy site. Can't find any links to development repositories, but in terms of targeting end users, the author (because it looks like a single-person job, given the many I references) has done a solid job. Sites like this remind me that we really should put a bit more effort into the 'marketing' aspect of our sites. From what I can tell, circos is very nice but has nowhere the technical depth, complexity and flexibility of matplotlib. It's a fairly narrowly targeted tool. But a site like that makes it really appealing to people. Thanks for that link, Nelle! Cheers, f -- Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib produced plots in academic journal articles
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Damon McDougall damon.mcdoug...@gmail.com wrote: It's maybe a bit over the top, but it's certainly a good reference. I agree, a bit too rich for my taste too. But our sites tend to be the opposite extreme, so it's a good data point to keep in mind. Cheers, f -- Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] XKCD style graphs?
Sweet! That should *defiintely* go into the mpl gallery, and honestly I'd love for it to be cleaned up enough to be usable to style generically any plot, much like the mathematica code I linked to earlier does. It would be a beautiful demonstration of matplotlib's capabilities, and furthermore, I can imagine it being useful in practice. If I want to make a purely 'qualitative' diagram, something in this style actually looks great and I prefer it to something that looks more like a 'real data' plot. Thanks everyone for the enthusiasm with which you took this and ran with it! Cheers, f On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Damon McDougall damon.mcdoug...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Juergen Hasch pyt...@elbonia.de wrote: Here is my take on it as an IPython notebook, based on Damon's code: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/3835181/ I took the engineering approach and filtered the random function instead of doing some fft/ifft magic. Also, X and Y of the functions are affected now, giving them a more natural look in the slopes. Juergen I think I actually prefer your output over mine :) Nice job. -- Damon McDougall http://www.damon-is-a-geek.com B2.39 Mathematics Institute University of Warwick Coventry West Midlands CV4 7AL United Kingdom -- Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users -- Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] John Hunter has been awarded the first Distinguished Service Award by the PSF
Hi folks, you may have already seen this, but in case you haven't, I'm thrilled to share that the Python Software Foundation has just created its newest and highest distinction, the Distinguished Service Award, and has chosen John as its first recipient: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2012/09/announcing-2012-distinctive-service.html This is a fitting tribute to his many contributions. Cheers, f -- Got visibility? Most devs has no idea what their production app looks like. Find out how fast your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219671;13503038;y? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] John Hunter's memorial service
Hi all, I have just received the following information from John's family regarding the memorial service: John's memorial service will be held on Monday, October 1, 2012, at 11.a.m. at Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago. The exact address is 5850 S. Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60615. The service is open to the public. The service will be fully planned and scripted with no room for people to eulogize, however, we will have a reception after the service, hosted by Tradelink, where people can talk. Regards, f -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] [matplotlib-devel] A sad day for our community. John Hunter: 1968-2012.
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Jim Benson jben...@nofs.navy.mil wrote: My apologies also for replying to the lists (double post), but the above web address did not work for me under Safari Version 5.1.7 (6534.57.2) (there was only one other post when i tried to post). I only got a Please complete the CAPTCHA, The message i attempted to post was: There's a little CAPTCHA which is a little arithmetic problem. Did you by any chance miss that? Cheers, f -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] [ANN] Call for abstracts: BigData minisymposium at CSE'13, February 2013, Boston
Dear colleagues, next year's SIAM conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE'13, will take place in Boston, February 25-March 1 (http://www.siam.org/meetings/cse13), and for this version there will be a track focused on the topic of Big Data. This term has rapidly risen in recent discussions of science and even of mainstream business computing, and for good reasons. Today virtually all disciplines are facing a flood of quantitative information whose volumes have often grown faster than the quality of our tools for extracting insight from these data. SIAM hopes that CSE'13 will provide an excellent venue for discussing these problems, from the vantage point offered by a community whose expertise combines analytical insights, algorithmic development, software engineering and domain-specific applications. As part of this event, Titus Brown (http://ged.msu.edu) and I are organizing a minisymposium where we would like to have a group of presentations that address both novel algorithmic ideas and computational approaches as well as domain-specific problems. Data doesn't appear in a vacuum, and data from different domains presents a mix of common problems along with questions that may be specific to each; we hope that by engaging a dialog between those working on algorithmic and implementation questions and those with specific problems from the field, valuable insights can be obtained. If you would like to contribute to this minisymposium, please contact us directly at: C. Titus Brown c...@msu.edu, Fernando Perez fernando.pe...@berkeley.edu with your name and affiliation, the title of your proposed talk and a brief description (actual abstracts are due later so an informal description will suffice for now), by Wednesday August 29. For more details on the submission process, see: http://www.siam.org/meetings/cse13/submissions.php Please forward this to any interested colleagues. Regards, Titus and Fernando. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] New tutorial (beginner level)
Hi Ben, On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Benjamin Root ben.r...@ou.edu wrote: I have said this before, and it can't be repeated often enough. The work that you and your team has been doing the past few years with the notebook is *already* revolutionizing how we teach python. 10 years from now, programmers will point to this as the *killer* feature of python. well, your kind words are very much appreciated, truly. It's been a ton of work, and at this point far more credit goes to the rest of the team than to me. One thing I'd like to emphasize is how strong, productive and positive the collaboration between IPython and matplotlib has been over time: we have managed to allow both projects to fully retain their identity (we don't even have a hard dependency on mpl in IPython, and matplotlib doesn't even import IPython at all), and yet the two projects complement each other very well, benefiting both of them, and ultimately all of our users. A good combination of communication and collaboration has allowed us to maintain a strong separation of concerns while providing users a feel of integrated functionality where it matters. I have every reason to believe that, as we push into the second decade of this effort with the vision of challenges and ideas that John and Michael D. recently laid out (at the SciPy'12 keynote and in Michael's posts), this is only going to get better. The web work is going to be a pretty tough challenge, but at the same time it's a great opportunity to revisit key parts of matplotlib with a lot of hindsight we've accumulated. That kind of hindsight is what let us refactor all of IPython over the last few years, so that while the user experience at the terminal from 0.10 to 0.11 remained mostly unchanged (we did have some regressions but they were pretty mild), we had a completely new architecture under the hood that paved the way for the qt console, the notebook and the current parallel machinery. I hope we'll see similar benefits as the web forces us to rethink matplotlib for a multiprocess model. Cheers, f -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] New tutorial (beginner level)
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Nicolas Rougier nicolas.roug...@inria.fr wrote: By the way, I suspect the simple plot part may well suited for the ipython notebook ! I'll give it a try. Actually in the notebook it is now possible to enable exercises, hints, reveal-boxes, etc. I'm cc'ing here Matthias Bussonnier b/c I'm not sure if he's on the mpl list. He's one of our recent core devs who is behind a lot of our new JS magic in the notebook, and he's also a French scientist who will be at Euroscipy, so you guys could perhaps touch bases (I'm unfortunately not going to make it this year). Ultimately we'd like to make it very easy to write tutorials such as yours directly as notebooks, so that when used in the classroom students can work straight off them, and yet also publish then with clean and customizable HTML on the web like you did. Lots of the pieces are in place, though not quite all yet :) Cheers, f -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] New tutorial (beginner level)
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Nicolas Rougier nicolas.roug...@inria.fr wrote: I've just finished a new introductory tutorial for incoming Euroscipy 2012. You can find it here: http://www.loria.fr/~rougier/teaching/matplotlib/ Wow! Other than the rendering glitches already mentioned, this is *awesome*. We're teaching a python workshop at UC Berkeley in 2 weeks (http://register.pythonbootcamp.info) and I just suggested we use this for our mpl intro. It's the best one I've seen so far, and the reference info at the bottom as well as the mini-gallery will make it a very useful resource even for seasoned users. Fantastic job, Nicolas (and Mike M.), and thanks for sharing this great resource! Cheers, f -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] [ANN] SIAM Conference on Computational Science Engineering Submission Deadlines Approaching!
Dear Colleagues, the SIAM CSE13 conference will be held next year in Boston, and this is a conference that is well suited for much of the type of work that goes on in the open source scientific Python development community (and Julia). The conference is co-chaired by Hans-Petter Langtangen, well known around these parts for his several books on scientific computing with Python and for having led a campus-wide adoption of Python as the core computational foundation across the University of Oslo. I am also on the program committee, as well as Randy LeVeque and other Python-friendly folks. An excellent way to participate is to organize a one- or two-part minisymposium on a specific topic with a group of related speakers (instructions at http://www.siam.org/meetings/cse13/submissions.php). Please note that the MS deadline is fast approaching: August 13, 2012. If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to contact me or one of the other organizers if you feel they can address your concerns more directly: Fernando Perez fernando.pe...@berkeley.edu Randy LeVeque r...@amath.washington.edu (Reproducible research track) Hans Petter Langtangen h...@simula.no (Conference co-chair) Karen Willcox kwill...@mit.edu (conference chair) -- Forwarded message -- From: Karen Willcox kwill...@mit.edu Date: Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 6:08 AM Subject: [SIAM-CSE] SIAM Conference on Computational Science Engineering Submission Deadlines Approaching! To: siam-...@siam.org *SIAM Conference on Computational Science Engineering (CSE13)* February 25-March 1, 2013 The Westin Boston Waterfront, Boston, Massachusetts, USA ** ** SUBMISSION DEADLINES ARE APPROACHING! August 13, 2012: Minisymposium proposals September 10, 2012: Abstracts for contributed and minisymposium speakers Visit http://www.siam.org/meetings/cse13/submissions.php to submit. ** ** Twitter hashtag: #SIAMcse13 ** ** For more information about the conference, visit * http://www.siam.org/meetings/cse13/* or contact SIAM Conference Department at meeti...@siam.org. -- Karen Willcox Professor and Associate Department Head Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT http://acdl.mit.edu/willcox.html ___ SIAM-CSE mailing list To post messages to the list please send them to: siam-...@siam.org http://lists.siam.org/mailman/listinfo/siam-cse -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] [ANN] IPython 0.13 is officially out!
Hi all, on behalf of the IPython development team, and just in time for the imminent Debian freeze and SciPy 2012, I'm thrilled to announce, after an intense 6 months of work, the official release of IPython 0.13. This version contains several major new features, as well as a large amount of bug and regression fixes. The previous version (0.12) was released on December 19 2011, so in this development cycle we had: - ~6 months of work. - 373 pull requests merged. - 742 issues closed (non-pull requests). - contributions from 62 authors. - 1760 commits. - a diff of 114226 lines. This means that we closed a total of 1115 issues over 6 months, for a rate of almost 200 issues closed per month and almost 300 commits per month. We are very grateful to all of you who have contributed so enthusiastically to the project and have had the patience of pushing your contributions through our often lengthy review process. We've also welcomed several new members to the core IPython development group: Jörgen Stenarson (@jstenar - this really was an omission as Jörgen has been our Windows expert for a long time) and Matthias Bussonier (@Carreau), who has been very active on all fronts of the project. *Highlights* There is too much new work to write up here, so we refer you to our full What's New document (http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/rel-0.13/whatsnew/version0.13.html) for the full details. But the main highlights of this release are: * Brand new UI for the notebook, with major usability improvements (real menus, toolbar, and much more) * Manage all your parallel cluster configurations from the notebook with push-button simplicity (cluster start/stop with one button). * Cell magics: commands prefixed with %% apply to an entire cell. We ship with many cell magics by default, including timing, profiling, running cells under bash, Perl and Ruby as well as magics to interface seamlessly with Cython, R and Octave. * The IPython.parallel tools have received many fixes, optimizations, and a number of API improvements to make writing, profiling and debugging parallel codes with IPython much easier. * We have unified our interactive kernels (the basic ipython object you know and love) with the engines running in parallel, so that you can now use all IPython special tricks in parallel too. And you can connect a console or qtconsole to any parallel engine for direct, interactive execution, plotting and debugging in a cluster. *Downloads* Download links and instructions are at: http://ipython.org/download.html And IPython is also on PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipython Those contain a built version of the HTML docs; if you want pure source downloads with no docs, those are available on github: Tarball: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/tarball/rel-0.13 Zipball: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/zipball/rel-0.13 Please see our release notes for the full details on everything about this release: http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/rel-0.13/whatsnew/version0.13.html As usual, if you find any other problem, please file a ticket --or even better, a pull request fixing it-- on our github issues site (https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues). Many thanks to all who contributed! Fernando, on behalf of the IPython development team. http://ipython.org -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] Is IPython useful for your research/industry work? Feedback wanted for grant proposal.
Hi folks, sorry for the cross-post, but I expect all replies to this to happen off-list. I'm in the process of writing an NSF grant that will partly include IPython support, and along with Brian we will soon be doing more of the same. In the past we haven't had the best of luck with the NFS, hopefully this time it will be better. I think one mistake we've made has been to have very little in the way of hard evidence of the value (if any) that IPython provides to the scientific work of others and to industry. So I would greatly appreciate if you can contact me off-list (best at fernando.pe...@berkeley.edu) with any info that I could use in a typical NSF grant application. I'm not looking for marketing-type testimonials nor letters of support (the NSF frowns on those), but rather specific info, best if backed by journal citations, on how and where IPython plays an important role in your research or industry project (while the NSF is a science funding agency, it also has as part of its mission the economic well-being of the US). I'd also like to clarify that I'm not looking for quotes strictly of personal use as an interactive shell, since I know in this community most people do that. What I'm after are things like: - a research project that builds on IPython in some capacity - important results obtained with the IPython parallel machinery that were better/easier/whatever than a classical approach with other tools - uses of the notebook in education - anything else along these lines you can think of, that goes beyond pure personal shell use. Thanks! Again, in the interest of keeping list noise down, please reply directly to me: fernando.pe...@berkeley.edu. f -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] What is your matplotlib workflow?
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:05 PM, wiswit chaoyue...@gmail.com wrote: While in emacs or vim, you cannot simple select lines and execute them, so you have to frequently copy and code and use %cpaste or %paste to paste the code. In emacs you can activate ipython in your emacs.el file and then you can send arbitrary snippets you highlight, with C-c |. In vim, Paul Ivanov's vim-ipython integration (https://github.com/ivanov/vim-ipython) gives even more powerful and detailed control. Not saying the issues being discussed don't exist, but we do have some tools to partially address them (the questions about the MPL api are obviously beyond IPython's control). Cheers, f -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] who (F/OSS science) uses matplotlib?
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Eric Firing efir...@hawaii.edu wrote: In oceanography: it is used in the shipboard ADCP data acquisition and processing systems, presently installed on 20 ships. Suggestion: let's have for mpl something like what we created long ago for IPython, an official page listing projects that use it (and btw, if your project uses IPython as a component/library and you're not already listed here, please do so!): http://wiki.ipython.org/Projects_using_IPython While I'm not a huge fan of wikis for everything, for this it's actually a good solution, as it's very low overhead for others to update. And it comes in handy as an official list whenever we do presentations about IPython, to show that it's actually useful for something. I don't think we have a MPL wiki, but if it's just for a page or two we could just use the one at github. Cheers, f -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] All of the PyData videos are now up at the Marakana site
Hi folks, A number of you expressed interest in attending the PyData workshop last month and unfortunately we had very tight space restrictions. But thanks to the team at Marakana, who pitched in and were willing to film, edit and post videos for many of the talks, you can access them all here: http://marakana.com/s/2012_pydata_workshop,1090/index.html They are in 720p so you can actually read the terminals, though I think you have to click the YouTube link to be able to change the resolution. Enjoy! f -- Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] pydata hack Friday night in Santa Clara
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Mic micta...@gmail.com wrote: Would be greate if it would be possible to record talks and slides and make them public for whome are not leaving near by. The hack night will be 'open space' so not videotaped, but the main workshop will be, thanks to the awesome folks at Marakana who pitched in to do the hard work. We'll provide links to the videos once they get uploaded. Cheers, f -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] Discussion with Guido van Rossum and (hopefully) core python-dev on scientific Python and Python3
Hi folks, [ I'm broadcasting this widely for maximum reach, but I'd appreciate it if replies can be kept to the *numpy* list, which is sort of the 'base' list for scientific/numerical work. It will make it much easier to organize a coherent set of notes later on. Apology if you're subscribed to all and get it 10 times. ] As part of the PyData workshop (http://pydataworkshop.eventbrite.com) to be held March 2 and 3 at the Mountain View Google offices, we have scheduled a session for an open discussion with Guido van Rossum and hopefully as many core python-dev members who can make it. We wanted to seize the combined opportunity of the PyData workshop bringing a number of 'scipy people' to Google with the timeline for Python 3.3, the first release after the Python language moratorium, being within sight: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0398. While a number of scientific Python packages are already available for Python 3 (either in released form or in their master git branches), it's fair to say that there hasn't been a major transition of the scientific community to Python3. Since there is no more development being done on the Python2 series, eventually we will all want to find ways to make this transition, and we think that this is an excellent time to engage the core python development team and consider ideas that would make Python3 generally a more appealing language for scientific work. Guido has made it clear that he doesn't speak for the day-to-day development of Python anymore, so we all should be aware that any ideas that come out of this panel will still need to be discussed with python-dev itself via standard mechanisms before anything is implemented. Nonetheless, the opportunity for a solid face-to-face dialog for brainstorming was too good to pass up. The purpose of this email is then to solicit, from all of our community, ideas for this discussion. In a week or so we'll need to summarize the main points brought up here and make a more concrete agenda out of it; I will also post a summary of the meeting afterwards here. Anything is a valid topic, some points just to get the conversation started: - Extra operators/PEP 225. Here's a summary from the last time we went over this, years ago at Scipy 2008: http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2008-October/038234.html, and the current status of the document we wrote about it is here: file:///home/fperez/www/site/_build/html/py4science/numpy-pep225/numpy-pep225.html. - Improved syntax/support for rationals or decimal literals? While Python now has both decimals (http://docs.python.org/library/decimal.html) and rationals (http://docs.python.org/library/fractions.html), they're quite clunky to use because they require full constructor calls. Guido has mentioned in previous discussions toying with ideas about support for different kinds of numeric literals... - Using the numpy docstring standard python-wide, and thus having python improve the pathetic state of the stdlib's docstrings? This is an area where our community is light years ahead of the standard library, but we'd all benefit from Python itself improving on this front. I'm toying with the idea of giving a lighting talk at PyConn about this, comparing the great, robust culture and tools of good docstrings across the Scipy ecosystem with the sad, sad state of docstrings in the stdlib. It might spur some movement on that front from the stdlib authors, esp. if the core python-dev team realizes the value and benefit it can bring (at relatively low cost, given how most of the information does exist, it's just in the wrong places). But more importantly for us, if there was truly a universal standard for high-quality docstrings across Python projects, building good documentation/help machinery would be a lot easier, as we'd know what to expect and search for (such as rendering them nicely in the ipython notebook, providing high-quality cross-project help search, etc). - Literal syntax for arrays? Sage has been floating a discussion about a literal matrix syntax (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sage-devel/mzwepqZBHnA). For something like this to go into python in any meaningful way there would have to be core multidimensional arrays in the language, but perhaps it's time to think about a piece of the numpy array itself into Python? This is one of the more 'out there' ideas, but after all, that's the point of a discussion like this, especially considering we'll have both Travis and Guido in one room. - Other syntactic sugar? Sage has a..b = range(a, b+1), which I actually think is both nice and useful... There's also the question of allowing a:b:c notation outside of [], which has come up a few times in conversation over the last few years. Others? - The packaging quagmire? This continues to be a problem, though python3 does have new improvements to distutils. I'm not really up to speed on the situation, to be frank. If we want to bring this up,
Re: [Matplotlib-users] How matplotlib got me a job
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Ethan Gutmann ethan.gutm...@gmail.com wrote: Also, congrats Ben, both on finishing the PhD and on the job. If you ever find yourself in Boulder, CO (I'm at NCAR), let me know and I'll buy you a drink. Indeed, congrats to Ben! And I'm very glad to see your many contributions to the project finding acknowledgment and long-term benefits for you. BTW Ethan, it's been a few years since the last time that John Hunter and I lectured at NCAR (Dec. 2007), but in early April Min Ragan-Kelley and I will be teaching at a workshop at CU, focusing on data analysis with the 'scipy stack' and ipython's parallel machinery. This will be in the context of a genomics workshop on campus, but if you are interested we might be able to meet up with some of the python crowd at NCAR... Just let me know if you are interested; best to write to fernando.pe...@berkeley.edu, as I sometimes stop monitoring mailing lists if I get swamped. Cheers, f -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Events
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 3:41 AM, Jerzy Karczmarczuk jerzy.karczmarc...@unicaen.fr wrote: There is one rant, if you wish (of course, I am joking). The animation objects (FuncAnimation, etc.) are coded as they are, probably sufficient for you. They are one shot. But if you want to stop and to resume your animation, they are not so well adapted. Actually many thanks for this very interesting discussion! Just on Friday I came to this same conclusion while preparing some lecture material using animations. The lack of a clean pause/restart functionality is indeed problematic. Furthermore, closing a window that's running an animation, at least with the Qt backend, gave rise to a massive swarm of 'C++ object has been deleted' messages flooding the console where my ipython kernel had been started. One thing to keep in mind, if you go down the road of implementing a full-blown event loop for matplotlib, is how well it will play with existing event loops. Whenever an interactive GUI backend is running, there's already an event loop at work: that of the GUI toolkit. Integrating multiple event loops in the same process takes some delicate footwork if you don't want to end up with a nasty fight between the two. In any case, keep us posted on any progress! Best, f -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Events
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Jerzy Karczmarczuk jerzy.karczmarc...@unicaen.fr wrote: This happens also with different backends and the driving interface (say, Idle with Tkinter...) Some solutions exist. The simplest one is the following. Thanks for the tips! It would really be nice if in animation mode, the mpl windows had automatically a play/pause toggle at the very least, so that regular users could get more functional animations without having to wire these extra tricks. I now see there's even a pause() call: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/148 so it seems like it should be an easy matter of adding the button and wire it to pause(). Perhaps one of your students could make a nice contribution :) Absolutely. But first, you don't need to launch show() and force some mainloop(), MainLoop(), gtk.main(), etc. under the hood. We wrote some loops under wx, simple-minded ; there is one included in the standard docs-and-demos. I don't know yet how to force WindowUpdate from Matplotlib, but some plugin solution should exist, since Matplotlib does that already. Second, even if an event loop runs already, the question is to plug in the access to the concrete event queue mechanism, not to superpose another one, and yell with horror at which level declare callbacks... Best of luck. Having burned many hours on the ipython/matplotlib event loop integration over the years, I don't envy you right now if you're going to fight this little battle... But I'll happily cheer you from the safety of the sidelines :) Cheers, f -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Events
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Jerzy Karczmarczuk jerzy.karczmarc...@unicaen.fr wrote: This is a temporal pause, not an undetermined suspension, restartable. Ah, never mind then. I didn't read the docstring and misunderstood the discussion in the pull request. Cheers, f -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] cycling mechanism
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Benjamin Root ben.r...@ou.edu wrote: Thoughts? Comments? None other than my eternal gratitude if you do this: it's one of the few things (perhaps the only one) I still miss from the old gnuplot, which made it trivial to switch from color to b/w mode and it would produce sensible output immediately in either mode. Cheers, f -- Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] [ANN] IPython 0.12 is out!
Hi all, on behalf of the IPython development team, I'm thrilled to announce, after an intense 4 1/2 months of work, the official release of IPython 0.12. This is a very important release for IPython, for several reasons. First and foremost, we have a major new feature, our interactive web-based notebook, that has been in our sights for a very long time. We tried to build one years ago (with WX) as a Google SoC project in 2005, had other prototypes later on, but things never quite worked. Finally the refactoring effort started two years ago, the communications architecture we built in 2010, and the advances of modern browsers, gave us all the necessary pieces. With this foundation in place, while part of the team worked on the 0.11 release, Brian Granger had already started quietly building the web notebook, which we demoed in early-alpha mode at the SciPy 2011 conference (http://www.archive.org/details/Wednesday-203-6-IpythonANewArchitectureForInteractiveAndParallel). By the EuroScipy conference in August we had merged Brian's amazing effort into our master branch, and after that multiple people (old and new) jumped in to make all kinds of improvements, leaving us today with something that is an excellent foundation. It's still the first release of the notebook, and as such we know it has a number of rough edges, but several of us have been using it as a daily research tool for the last few months. Do not hesitate to file issues for any problems you encounter with it, and we even have an 'open issue' for general discussion of ideas and features for the notebook at: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/977. Furthermore, it is clear that our big refactoring work, combined with the amazing facilities at Github, are paying off. The 0.11 series was a major amount of work, with 511 issues closed over almost two years. But that pales in comparison to this cycle: in only 4 1/2 months we closed 515 issues, with 50% being Pull Requests. And very importantly, our list of contributors includes many new faces (see the credits section in our release notes for full details), which is the best thing that can happen to an open source project. We hope you will find the new features (the notebook isn't the only one! see below) compelling, and that many more will not only use IPython but will join the project; there's plenty to do and now there are tasks for many different skill sets (web, javascript, gui work, low-level networking, parallel machinery, console apps, etc). *Downloads* Download links and instructions are at: http://ipython.org/download.html And IPython is also on PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipython Those contain a built version of the HTML docs; if you want pure source downloads with no docs, those are available on github: Tarball: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/tarball/rel-0.12 Zipball: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/zipball/rel-0.12 * Features * Here is a quick listing of the major new features: - An interactive browser-based Notebook with rich media support - Two-process terminal console - Tabbed QtConsole - Full Python 3 compatibility - Standalone Kernel - PyPy support And many more... We closed over 500 tickets, merged over 200 pull requests, and more than 45 people contributed commits for the final release. Please see our release notes for the full details on everything about this release: http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/stable/whatsnew/version0.12.html * IPython tutorial at PyCon 2012 * Those of you attending (or planning on it) PyCon 2012 in Santa Clara, CA, may be interested in attending a hands-on tutorial we will be presenting on the many faces of IPython. See https://us.pycon.org/2012/schedule/presentation/121/ for full details. * Errata * This was caught by Matthias Bussionnier's (one of our great new contributors) sharp eyes while I was writing these release notes: In the example notebook called display_protocol, the first cell starts with: from IPython.lib.pylabtools import print_figure which should instead be: from IPython.core.pylabtools import print_figure This has already been fixed on master, but since the final 0.12 files have been uploaded to github and PyPI, we'll let them be. As usual, if you find any other problem, please file a ticket --or even better, a pull request fixing it-- on our github issues site (https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/). Many thanks to all who contributed! Fernando, on behalf of the IPython development team. http://ipython.org -- Learn Windows Azure Live! Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011 Microsoft is holding a special Learn Windows Azure training event for developers. It will provide a great way to learn Windows Azure and what it provides. You can attend the event by watching it streamed LIVE online. Learn more at http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-windowsazure ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list
Re: [Matplotlib-users] I get a warning when running code with ipython, but not with python
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 6:11 AM, Michael Droettboom md...@stsci.edu wrote: This looks like a bug for the IPython folks. If you make a file containing only import gtk and %run that file, one gets the same error. Mmmh, I don't get the problem on ubuntu 10.10. I'll try to check later on an 11.10 machine I have. To the OP: yes, this will be best discussed on the ipython list, since it really has nothing to do with matplotlib. Cheers, f -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib 1.1.0 and PySide
Hi Jean-Louis, On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:47 AM, Durrieu Jean-Louis jean-louis.durr...@epfl.ch wrote: Is that the right way to do so? Is there any way of setting the QT_API more definitely, and not having to change the call to python? Yes, in your $HOME/.bashrc file that your shell loads at startup time, you can write export QT_API=pyside And this will ensure that you always have this variable set as part of your 'environment'. The concept of 'environment' is a unix-specific idea of a set of variables and other parameters visible to any program; you can actually read and write the enviroment in python by importing 'os' and using the os.environ variable: $ export SOMEVAR=Hello matplotlib $ ipython --no-banner In [1]: import os In [2]: os.environ['SOMEVAR'] Out[2]: 'Hello matplotlib' Cheers, f -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] [ANN] PyHPC2011: Python at SuperComputing 2011 in Seattle
Hi all, SC is the largest conference focused on high-performance computing, this year it will be held in Seattle: http://sc11.supercomputing.org/ and as part of the conference, a Python-focused workshop is being organized. The deadline for papers is coming up soon (Sept 19), so if you are interested in participating there is still time to get your submission ready! Papers up to 10 pages are welcome on any of the following topics: Python-based scientific applications and libraries High performance computing Parallel Python-based programming languages Scientific visualization Scientific computing education Python performance and language issues Problem solving environments with Python Performance analysis tools for Python application For full details, please see: http://www.dlr.de/sc/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-1183/1638_read-31733/ -- Doing More with Less: The Next Generation Virtual Desktop What are the key obstacles that have prevented many mid-market businesses from deploying virtual desktops? How do next-generation virtual desktops provide companies an easier-to-deploy, easier-to-manage and more affordable virtual desktop model.http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426474/ ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] mathtext in eps figures doesn't come out in pdf
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Jonathan Slavin jsla...@cfa.harvard.edu wrote: Attached are examples of the problem -- a PostScript file and the pdf that is created using ps2pdf. The y-axis is properly labeled in the ps file, but the part of the label using mathtext becomes invisible in the pdf. What happens if you generate the pdf file directly from matplotlib, and not via ps2pdf? That should work fine... Cheers, f -- Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-d2d-2 ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] [ANN] IPython 0.11 is officially out
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Fernando Perez fperez@gmail.com wrote: Please see our release notes for the full details on everything about this release: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/zipball/rel-0.11 And embarrassingly, that URL was for a zip download instead (copy/paste error), the detailed release notes are here: http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/rel-0.11/whatsnew/version0.11.html Sorry about the mistake... Cheers, f -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos much more. Register early save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] [ANN] IPython 0.11 is officially out
Hi all, on behalf of the IPython development team, I'm thrilled to announce, after more than two years of development work, the official release of IPython 0.11. This release brings a long list of improvements and new features (along with hopefully few new bugs). We have completely refactored IPython, making it a much more friendly project to participate in by having better separated and organized internals. We hope you will not only use the new tools and libraries, but also join us with new ideas and development. After this very long development effort, we hope to make a few stabilization releases at a quicker pace, where we iron out the kinks in the new APIs and complete some remaining internal cleanup work. We will then make a (long awaited) IPython 1.0 release with these stable APIs. *Downloads* Download links and instructions are at: http://ipython.org/download.html And IPython is also on PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipython Those contain a built version of the HTML docs; if you want pure source downloads with no docs, those are available on github: Tarball: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/tarball/rel-0.11 Zipball: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/zipball/rel-0.11 * Features * Here is a quick listing of the major new features: - Standalone Qt console - High-level parallel computing with ZeroMQ - New model for GUI/plotting support in the terminal - A two-process architecture - Fully refactored internal project structure - Vim integration - Integration into Microsoft Visual Studio - Improved unicode support - Python 3 support - New profile model - SQLite storage for history - New configuration system - Pasting of code with prompts And many more... We closed over 500 tickets, merged over 200 pull requests, and more than 60 people contributed over 2200 commits for the final release. Please see our release notes for the full details on everything about this release: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/zipball/rel-0.11 As usual, if you find any problem, please file a ticket --or even better, a pull request fixing it-- on our github issues site (https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/). Many thanks to all who contributed! Fernando, on behalf of the IPython development team. http://ipython.org -- Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek. http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] dolphin save as svg broken
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Michael Droettboom md...@stsci.edu wrote: Yes, but this is fixed in SVN 1.0 branch and trunk -- at least for me. Not for you? Nope, identical behavior, just tested with a rebuilt-from-now numpy and mpl: amirbar[matplotlib] svn info Path: . URL: https://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/matplotlib/trunk/matplotlib Repository Root: https://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/matplotlib Repository UUID: f61c4167-ca0d-0410-bb4a-bb21726e55ed Revision: 8753 Node Kind: directory Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: mdboom Last Changed Rev: 8753 Last Changed Date: 2010-10-13 11:04:01 -0700 (Wed, 13 Oct 2010) This was tested on linux, ubuntu 10.04 (both 32 and 64 bits). Only numpy and matplotlib are source builds, all other dependencies are system libraries. Cheers, f -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] dolphin save as svg broken
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Jouni K. Seppänen j...@iki.fi wrote: Is there a way to ask apt what the build dependencies for a package are, and then install only a subset? A crude but functional way is to just run apt-get build-dep, and then cancel the actual download. That list is printed on screen, and one can then manually apt-get install just a subset. I'm sure one of our resident Debian experts can suggest a more elegant solution. Cheers, f -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] dolphin save as svg broken
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Fernando Perez fperez@gmail.com wrote: Nope, identical behavior, just tested with a rebuilt-from-now numpy and mpl: OK, the plot thickens. I may have spoken too fast: the behavior we see in the Qt console is indeed the same I reported earlier, and the MPL bug where doing pastefig() (which just calls savefig() to svg) causes the bad redrawing of the axis is still there, and definitely a MPL issue. BUT, if I save the svg manually to a file from mpl or from the Qt console, so the raw SVG data is written out, then it looks fine once I open it in inkscape. So it seems the problem is actually with the Qt widget's display of that SVG file, somehow it seems the Qt widget doesn't correctly understand the clipping info (which Inkscape is OK with). We'll bounce this over to the Qt folks to see if it's a known bug in Qt. In summary, only the bad redrawing of axes is a confirmed MPL issue, sorry for the confusion. Cheers, f -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] dolphin save as svg broken
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Michael Droettboom md...@stsci.edu wrote: Yes, but this is fixed in SVN 1.0 branch and trunk -- at least for me. Not for you? And for the record, I can confirm that from trunk, a saved dolphins.svg opens OK with inkscape. The bug (as mentioned on -dev) we're seeing is actually a Qt bug. Cheers, f -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] [ANN] IPython 0.10.1 is out.
Hi all, we've just released IPython 0.10.1, full release notes are below. Downloads in source and windows binary form are available in the usual location: http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/ But since our switch to github, we also get automatic distribution of archives there: http://github.com/ipython/ipython/archives/rel-0.10.1 and we've also started uploading archives to the Python Package Index (which easy_install will use by default): http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipython so at any time you should find a location with good download speeds. You can find the full documentation at: http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/rel-0.10.1/html/index.html Enjoy! Fernando (on behalf of the whole IPython team) Release 0.10.1 == IPython 0.10.1 was released October 11, 2010, over a year after version 0.10. This is mostly a bugfix release, since after version 0.10 was released, the development team's energy has been focused on the 0.11 series. We have nonetheless tried to backport what fixes we could into 0.10.1, as it remains the stable series that many users have in production systems they rely on. Since the 0.11 series changes many APIs in backwards-incompatible ways, we are willing to continue maintaining the 0.10.x series. We don't really have time to actively write new code for 0.10.x, but we are happy to accept patches and pull requests on the IPython `github site`_. If sufficient contributions are made that improve 0.10.1, we will roll them into future releases. For this purpose, we will have a branch called 0.10.2 on github, on which you can base your contributions. .. _github site: http://github.com/ipython For this release, we applied approximately 60 commits totaling a diff of over 7000 lines:: (0.10.1)amirbar[dist] git diff --oneline rel-0.10.. | wc -l 7296 Highlights of this release: - The only significant new feature is that IPython's parallel computing machinery now supports natively the Sun Grid Engine and LSF schedulers. This work was a joint contribution from Justin Riley, Satra Ghosh and Matthieu Brucher, who put a lot of work into it. We also improved traceback handling in remote tasks, as well as providing better control for remote task IDs. - New IPython Sphinx directive. You can use this directive to mark blocks in reSructuredText documents as containig IPython syntax (including figures) and the will be executed during the build:: .. ipython:: In [2]: plt.figure() # ensure a fresh figure @savefig psimple.png width=4in In [3]: plt.plot([1,2,3]) Out[3]: [matplotlib.lines.Line2D object at 0x9b74d8c] - Various fixes to the standalone ipython-wx application. - We now ship internally the excellent argparse library, graciously licensed under BSD terms by Steven Bethard. Now (2010) that argparse has become part of Python 2.7 this will be less of an issue, but Steven's relicensing allowed us to start updating IPython to using argparse well before Python 2.7. Many thanks! - Robustness improvements so that IPython doesn't crash if the readline library is absent (though obviously a lot of functionality that requires readline will not be available). - Improvements to tab completion in Emacs with Python 2.6. - Logging now supports timestamps (see ``%logstart?`` for full details). - A long-standing and quite annoying bug where parentheses would be added to ``print`` statements, under Python 2.5 and 2.6, was finally fixed. - Improved handling of libreadline on Apple OSX. - Fix ``reload`` method of IPython demos, which was broken. - Fixes for the ipipe/ibrowse system on OSX. - Fixes for Zope profile. - Fix %timeit reporting when the time is longer than 1000s. - Avoid lockups with ? or ?? in SunOS, due to a bug in termios. - The usual assortment of miscellaneous bug fixes and small improvements. The following people contributed to this release (please let us know if we omitted your name and we'll gladly fix this in the notes for the future): * Beni Cherniavsky * Boyd Waters. * David Warde-Farley * Fernando Perez * Gökhan Sever * Justin Riley * Kiorky * Laurent Dufrechou * Mark E. Smith * Matthieu Brucher * Satrajit Ghosh * Sebastian Busch * Václav Šmilauer -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] [ANN] IPython 0.10.1 is out.
Hi all,
Illustrating the need to *always* remember we credit in the commit
message the name of the person who made a contribution originally...
2010/10/12 Fernando Perez fperez@gmail.com:
Hi all,
- New IPython Sphinx directive. You can use this directive to mark blocks in
reSructuredText documents as containig IPython syntax (including figures) and
the will be executed during the build::
[...]
The following people contributed to this release (please let us know if we
omitted your name and we'll gladly fix this in the notes for the future):
...
I completely failed to note that this feature (one out of the only two
new features in 0.10.2!) was contributed by John Hunter.
John shall be generously compensated for this offense with fresh
coffee and tropical fruit candy from Colombia, so there's nothing to
worry :)
But this is a good lesson for the committers. I wrote the release
notes last night by scanning the full changelog and running this
function:
function gauthor() {
git log $@ | grep '^Author' | cut -d' ' -f 2- | sort | uniq
}
Since when John sent this, I failed to record his name in the
changelog, last night I simply forgot. It's very, very hard to
remember months after the fact where any one piece of code came from,
so let's try to be disciplined about *always*:
- if the contribution is more or less ready-to-commit as sent, and the
committer only does absolutely minimal work, use
git commit --author=Original Author origi...@author.com
- If the committer does significant amounts of rework, note the
original author in the long part of the commit message (after the
first summary line). This will make it possible to find that
information later when writing the release notes.
Here are some examples from our log where I didn't screw up:
- Using --author:
commit 8323fa343e74a01394e85f3874249b955131976a
Author: Sebastian Busch
Date: Sun Apr 25 10:57:39 2010 -0700
Improvements to Vim support for visual mode.
Patch by Sebastian Busch.
Note: this patch was originally for the 0.10 series, I (fperez) minimally
fixed it for 0.11 but it may still require some tweaking to work well with
the refactored codebase.
Closes https://bugs.launchpad.net/ipython/+bug/460359
-- Not using --author, but recording origin:
commit ffa96dbc431628218dec604d59bb80511af40751
Author: Fernando Perez fernando.pe...@berkeley.edu
Date: Sat Apr 24 20:35:08 2010 -0700
Fix readline detection bug in OSX.
Close https://bugs.launchpad.net/ipython/+bug/411599
Thanks to a patch by Boyd Waters.
Ideally, when a significant new feature lands, we should immediately
summarize it in the whatsnew/ docs, but I know that is often hard to
do, as features continue to evolve or a while. All the more reason
why commit messages with sufficient, accurate information are so
important.
Cheers,
f
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Re: [Matplotlib-users] dolphin save as svg broken
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Carl Karsten c...@personnelware.com wrote: Run the code, you get a window that has a 'save' button, the dialog has a 'type svg' option the svg renders with the blue/green dots everywhere (rendering using both rsvg-view and inkscape, which use different rendering engines.) save as png, display png, dots only inside circle. Yup, clipping is completely broken in SVG, reported here: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=AANLkTik-Ty-V-QFEmkjhJH%2B-%3DtEZTTXyJLXxW%2B34E_hh%40mail.gmail.comforum_name=matplotlib-devel Cheers, f -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] autoscale when adding data to a Line2D?
Mmh,
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Jae-Joon Lee lee.j.j...@gmail.com wrote:
Did you try autoscale_view method?
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/axes_api.html?highlight=autoscale#matplotlib.axes.Axes.autoscale_view
Please post a sample script that reproduces the problem.
I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong then. Just now I was
writing some notes about this for a tutorial, and tried this code:
line, = plt.plot([1,2,3], label='my data')
plt.grid()
plt.title('My title')
x = np.linspace(0, 1)
y = x**2
line.set_data(x, y)
ax = gca()
ax.autoscale_view()
plt.draw()
but I get the result shown in the screenshot. Am I misusing
autoscale_view? As best I can tell from the docstring, I'm making
correct use of it, but perhaps I'm missing something...
Cheers,
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Re: [Matplotlib-users] autoscale when adding data to a Line2D?
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Eric Firing efir...@hawaii.edu wrote: You can do this using Axes.relim() prior to calling autoscale_view(). Aha! That's the call I missed, thanks a bunch. Perhaps a note indicating that in the autoscale_view docstring wouldn't hurt, because as it reads now I think the confusion I had is an easy one to fall into. Many thanks! I added this to my tutorial notes :) Cheers, f -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Python 3
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Ryan May rma...@gmail.com wrote: The one called Py3k :) http://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/matplotlib/branches/py3k/ In case you want to have ipython while testing, there's already an experimental py3k branch of ipython as well: http://github.com/takowl/ipython/tree/ipy3-newkernel We'll be working with Thomas over the next few months to merge upstream as much of his work as possible, so that we start having decent py3k support in ipython. If you end up helping IPython as well, even better :) Cheers, f -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Level surface of a function of 3 variables
Hi Luke, On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Dale Lukas Peterson hazelnu...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure I understand how I would make use of my function then. My function needs to be evaluated over a 3-d mesh (x, y, and z) , and then the level surfaces (not contour lines) calculated. I guess I could treat z as a parameter, then plot the zero level contour lines of my function for a discrete number of z values, but then I would need to adjust the height that each countour line is plotted at when I do the 3-d plot. This still would only give bunch of vertically stacked contour lines, rather than a nice smooth 3-d surface. If I'm misunderstanding what you meant, perhaps you could point me to an example of something that makes a level surface of a function of 3 (not 2) variables? You're looking for an isosurface; as far as I know matplotlib does not have isosurface modules, only 2-d contours embedded in 3d (such as those illustrated in http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/mplot3d/contourf3d_demo.html). VTK does have powerful isosurface capabilities, nicely exposed by mayavi: http://code.enthought.com/projects/mayavi/docs/development/html/mayavi/auto/mlab_helper_functions.html#contour3d If the mlab helper isn't sufficient for you, you can create directly VTK isosurfaces, the heart example is a good point to start learning: http://code.enthought.com/projects/mayavi/docs/development/html/mayavi/example_heart.html Regards, f -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] CMYK images
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Eric Firing efir...@hawaii.edu wrote: It's not trivial. This might help: http://www.littlecms.com/ See the tutorial for some nice background info. And this could be a good start for a python-based workflow: http://www.cazabon.com/pyCMS/ *if* it works (it looks old, so it may have bit-rotted in the meantime). Another option would be to ctypes-wrap the calls of littleCMS one needs just for this and be done with it. Not very elegant, but it might get the OP out of a bind with minimal work, and he'd have a little eps2cmyk.py script he could run on his MPL-generated EPS files for colorspace conversion. Just an afternoon hack. :) Regards, f -- Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users worldwide. Take advantage of special opportunities to increase revenue and speed time-to-market. Join now, and jumpstart your future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-atom-d2d ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] New subplots from 1.0 + shared axis
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Filipe Pires Alvarenga Fernandes ocef...@gmail.com wrote: It sacrifice a more fine control, but simplify the processes for the majority of the plots that I produce. Yes, that was the idea. We figured that if you need very fine-grained control over axis sharing in complex ways, you're probably OK using the manual API. But for the vast majority of users this seemed like a decent solution. It could in the long run be extended to allow passing of a list of axis indices to activate sharing for x/y on, though. Patches welcome :) Cheers, f -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Draggable matplotlib legend
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Christopher Barker chris.bar...@noaa.gov wrote: Might I suggest that that be made: leg.draggable(True) leg.draggable(False) Agreed. My favorite api for toggles is: _state = True def toggle(state=None): global _state old = _state if state is None: _state = not _state else: _state = state return old ### This lets you: - toggle without arguments - set state specifically as needed - save previous state before setting it if you need to make temporary changes. Cheers, f -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] Fwd: SciPy2009 BoF Wiki Page
Hi folks, David Warde-Farley kindly set up a page to coordinate BoF attendance at the conference, in case anyone on this list is interested. Details below. Cheers, f -- Forwarded message -- From: David Warde-Farley d...@cs.toronto.edu Date: Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:20 PM Subject: [IPython-user] SciPy2009 BoF Wiki Page To: SciPy Users List scipy-u...@scipy.org, Discussion of Numerical Python numpy-discuss...@scipy.org, ipython-u...@scipy.net I needed a short break from some heavy writing, so on Fernando's suggestion I took to the task of aggregating together mailing list traffic about the BoFs next week. So far, 4 have been proposed, and I've written down under attendees the names of anyone who has expressed interest (except in Perry's case, where I've only heard it via proxy). The page is at http://scipy.org/SciPy2009/BoF I've created sections below that are hyperlink targets for the topic of the session, if someone more knowledgeable of that domain can fill in those sections, please do. Edit away, and see you next week! (And if someone can forward this to the Matplotlib list, I'm not currently subscribed) David ___ IPython-user mailing list ipython-u...@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/ipython-user -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] [ANN] IPython 0.10 is out.
Hi all, on behalf of the IPython development team, I'm happy to announce that we've just put out IPython 0.10 final. Many thanks to all those who contributed ideas, bug reports and code. You can download it from the usual location: - http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/Download: direct links to various formats - http://ipython.scipy.org/dist: all files are stored here. The official documentation for this release can be found at: - http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/rel-0.10/html: as HTML pages. - http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/rel-0.10/ipython.pdf: as a single PDF. In brief, this release gathers all recent work and in a sense closes a cycle of the current useful-but-internally-messy structure of the IPython code. We are now well into the work of a major internal cleanup that will inevitably change some APIs and will likely take some time to stabilize, so the 0.10 release should be used for a while until the dust settles on the development branch. The 0.10 release fixes many bugs, including some very problematic ones (a major memory leak with repeated %run is closed), and also brings a number of new features, stability improvements and improved documentation. Some highlights: - Improved WX-based ipythonx and ipython-wx tools, suitable for embedding into other applications and standalone use. - Better interactive demos with the IPython.demo module. - Refactored ipcluster with support for local execution, MPI, PBS and systems with SSH key access preconfigured. - Integration with the TextMate editor in the %edit command. The full release notes are available here with all the details: http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/rel-0.10/html/changes.html#release-0-10 We hope you enjoy it, please report any problems as usual either on the mailing list, or by filing a bug report at our Launchpad tracker: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ipython Cheers, The IPython team. -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference
Hi, On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Fernando Perezfperez@gmail.com wrote: The time for the Scipy'09 conference is rapidly approaching, and we would like to both announce the plan for tutorials and solicit feedback from everyone on topics of interest. rather than rehash much here, where it's not easy to paste a table, I've posted a note with the poll results here: http://fdoperez.blogspot.com/2009/06/scipy-advanced-tutorials-results.html The short and plain-text-friendly version is the final topic ranking: 1 Advanced topics in matplotlib use 2 Advanced numpy 3 Designing scientific interfaces with Traits 4 Mayavi/TVTK 5 Cython 6 Symbolic computing with sympy 7 Statistics with Scipy 8 Using GPUs with PyCUDA 9 Testing strategies for scientific codes 10 Parallel computing in Python and mpi4py 11 Sparse Linear Algebra with Scipy 12 Structured and record arrays in numpy 13 Design patterns for efficient iterator-based scientific codes 14 Sage 15 The TimeSeries scikit 16 Hermes: high order Finite Element Methods 17 Graph theory with NetworkX We're currently contacting speakers, and we'll let you know once a final list is made with confirmed speakers. Cheers, f -- ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference
Hi all, In order to proceed with contacting speakers, we'd now like to get some feedback from you. This Doodle poll should take no more than a couple of minutes to fill out (no password or registration required): http://doodle.com/hb5bea6fivm3b5bk So please let us know which topics you are most interested in, and we'll do our best to accommodate everyone. Keep in mind that speaker availability and balancing out the topics means that the actual tutorials offered probably won't be exactly the list of top 8 voted topics, but the feedback will certainly help us steer the decision process. Thanks for your time, Dave Peterson and Fernando Perez On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Fernando Perezfperez@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, The time for the Scipy'09 conference is rapidly approaching, and we would like to both announce the plan for tutorials and solicit feedback from everyone on topics of interest. Broadly speaking, the plan is something along the lines of what we had last year: one continuous 2-day tutorial aimed at introductory users, starting from the very basics, and in parallel a set of 'advanced' tutorials, consisting of a series of 2-hour sessions on specific topics. We will request that the presenters for the advanced tutorials keep the 'tutorial' word very much in mind, so that the sessions really contain hands-on learning work and not simply a 2-hour long slide presentation. We will thus require that all the tutorials will be based on tools that the attendees can install at least 2 weeks in advance on all platforms (no I released it last night software). With that in mind, we'd like feedback from all of you on possible topics for the advanced tutorials. We have space for 8 slots total, and here are in no particular order some possible topics. At this point there are no guarantees yet that we can get presentations for these, but we'd like to establish a first list of preferred topics to try and secure the presentations as soon as possible. This is simply a list of candiate topics that various people have informally suggested so far: - Mayavi/TVTK - Advanced topics in matplotlib - Statistics with Scipy - The TimeSeries scikit - Designing scientific interfaces with Traits - Advanced numpy - Sparse Linear Algebra with Scipy - Structured and record arrays in numpy - Cython - Sage - general tutorial - Sage - specific topics, suggestions welcome - Using GPUs with PyCUDA - Testing strategies for scientific codes - Parallel processing and mpi4py - Graph theory with Networkx - Design patterns for efficient iterator-based scientific codes. - Symbolic computing with sympy We'd like to hear from any ideas on other possible topics of interest, and we'll then run a doodle poll to gather quantitative feedback with the final list of candidates. Many thanks, f -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference
Hi all, The time for the Scipy'09 conference is rapidly approaching, and we would like to both announce the plan for tutorials and solicit feedback from everyone on topics of interest. Broadly speaking, the plan is something along the lines of what we had last year: one continuous 2-day tutorial aimed at introductory users, starting from the very basics, and in parallel a set of 'advanced' tutorials, consisting of a series of 2-hour sessions on specific topics. We will request that the presenters for the advanced tutorials keep the 'tutorial' word very much in mind, so that the sessions really contain hands-on learning work and not simply a 2-hour long slide presentation. We will thus require that all the tutorials will be based on tools that the attendees can install at least 2 weeks in advance on all platforms (no I released it last night software). With that in mind, we'd like feedback from all of you on possible topics for the advanced tutorials. We have space for 8 slots total, and here are in no particular order some possible topics. At this point there are no guarantees yet that we can get presentations for these, but we'd like to establish a first list of preferred topics to try and secure the presentations as soon as possible. This is simply a list of candiate topics that various people have informally suggested so far: - Mayavi/TVTK - Advanced topics in matplotlib - Statistics with Scipy - The TimeSeries scikit - Designing scientific interfaces with Traits - Advanced numpy - Sparse Linear Algebra with Scipy - Structured and record arrays in numpy - Cython - Sage - general tutorial - Sage - specific topics, suggestions welcome - Using GPUs with PyCUDA - Testing strategies for scientific codes - Parallel processing and mpi4py - Graph theory with Networkx - Design patterns for efficient iterator-based scientific codes. - Symbolic computing with sympy We'd like to hear from any ideas on other possible topics of interest, and we'll then run a doodle poll to gather quantitative feedback with the final list of candidates. Many thanks, f -- OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] Has IPython been useful to you? Please let me know...
Hi all, [ apologies for the semi-spam, I'll keep this brief and expect all replies off-list ] IPython is a project that many of you on this list are likely to use in your daily work, either directly or indirectly (if you've embedded it or used it as a component of some other system). I would simply like to ask you, if IPython has been significantly useful for a project you use, lead, develop, etc., to let me know. For legal/professional reasons, I need to gather information about who has found IPython to be of value. I started IPython as a toy 'afternoon hack' in late 2001, and today it continues to grow, as the nicely summarized Ohloh stats show: https://www.ohloh.net/p/ipython (obviously, this is now the result of the work of many, not just myself, as is true of any healthy open source project as it grows). But I have never systematically tracked its impact, and now I need to do so. So, if you have used IPython and it has made a significant contribution to your project, work, research, company, whatever, I'd be very grateful if you let me know. A short paragraph on what this benefit has been is all I ask. Once I gather any information I get, I would contact directly some of the responders to ask for your authorization before quoting you. I should stress that any information you give me will only go in a documentation packet in support of my legal/residency process here in the USA (think of it as an oversized, obnoxiously detailed CV that goes beyond just publications and regular academic information). To keep traffic off this list, please send your replies directly to me, either at this address or my regular work one: fernando.pe...@berkeley.edu In advance, many thanks to anyone willing to reply. I've never asked for anything in return for working on IPython and the ecosystem of scientific Python tools, but this is actually very important, so any information you can provide me will be very useful. Best regards, Fernando Perez. -- Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] ANN: python for scientific computing at SIAM CSE 09
Hi folks, On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Fernando Perez fperez@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, sorry for the spam, but in case any of you are coming to the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE09) in Miami: http://www.siam.org/meetings/cse09/ A little trip report: http://fdoperez.blogspot.com/2009/03/python-at-siam-cse09-meeting.html and the slides I have so far, for those who may be interested (I'll continue to add more as I get them): https://cirl.berkeley.edu/fperez/py4science/2009_siam_cse/ Thanks to all the speakers! Cheers, f -- ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] ANN: python for scientific computing at SIAM CSE 09
Hi all, sorry for the spam, but in case any of you are coming to the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE09) in Miami: http://www.siam.org/meetings/cse09/ you might be interested in stopping by the Python sessions on Thursday: http://meetings.siam.org/sess/dsp_programsess.cfm?SESSIONCODE=8044 http://meetings.siam.org/sess/dsp_programsess.cfm?SESSIONCODE=8045 http://meetings.siam.org/sess/dsp_programsess.cfm?SESSIONCODE=8046 Think of it as the East Coast March mini-edition of Scipy'09 ;) Cheers, f -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] wxmpl incompatibility with matplotlib 0.98.x
Howdy, On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Michael Droettboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not aware of the problem (but I'm not a regular wxmpl user). From 0.91 to 0.98, a major refactoring was done to make it easier to add new kinds of projections. So PolarAxes is no longer a special case, it is just one of many possible non-Cartesian projections. Unfortunately to do this, the API had to change in a number of places. These are documented in the API_CHANGES file in the TRANSFORMS REFACTORING section. wxmpl needs to be updated based on those instructions in order to be compatible with mpl 0.98. Hopefully that process won't be too difficult, but it's hard to say without trying. basemap, a fairly large mpl toolkit, was able to handle the transition fairly smoothly. Are there any news on this front? Has wxmpl been updated, are there plans to do so, or is it on hold for now? Just curious... Cheers, f - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] The who command in Ipython-PyLab
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Eli Brosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In [1]: a=2
In [2]: who
a
In [3]: from pylab import *
In [4]: who
Out[4]: function who at 0x0141FAF0
Why is this happening?
Because pylab provides its own who _function_, which overrides the
ipython command ('magic function', in ipythonese).
Is there a way to use the who command with pylab ?
Try
%who
instead. The '%' disambiguates and tells ipython that you are
explicitly after the magic function, not any other python fuction
currently available.
Regards,
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Re: [Matplotlib-users] The who command in Ipython-PyLab
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Eli Brosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Fernando, I now tried %who. The result was a huge output, apparently containing all the pylab functions. This is exactly the thing I was trying to avoid. I wanted to use the who command to see only the variables I defined as part of the pylab session. Is there a way to do just this ? Yes, update ipython :) The problem you mention is fixed in the current version already: maqroll[books] ipython -pylab Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, May 7 2008, 15:19:09) Type copyright, credits or license for more information. IPython 0.9.0.bzr.r1016 -- 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. Welcome to pylab, a matplotlib-based Python environment. For more information, type 'help(pylab)'. In [1]: %who Interactive namespace is empty. In [2]: a = 1 In [3]: %who a In [4]: regards f - Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Changing backend with ipython
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Andrew Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
All the usual apologies if this is a FAQ, but I can't find it.
Is there any way to change the backend interactively when using ipython?
Best of all would a way to make changes in the middle of a session, but
even being able to do it at the beginning without editing matplotlibrc
would be great.
Mid-session you can't swtich *GUI* backends in ipython because the
entire GUI event loop can only be initialized once. But at startup,
as of fairly recent versions you can do:
ipython -pylab -Xthread
for X in {g,w,q,q4}. This will force a specific threading/gui backend
regardless of your mplrc settings.
Cheers,
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[Matplotlib-users] [OT - IPython] Old 'broken terminal' bug finally fixed
[ Sorry for the cross-post, but I know this is something that has hit quite a few people on this list. If you have any questions on it, please ask on the ipython list, this is just an FYI ] Hi all, there's a very old, *extremely* annoying bug that multiple people have asked about (on list and in person) that is finally just fixed. The behavior was that at some point during a normal session, after a call to 'foo?', your terminal would be totally messed up, with no displayed input. You could (blindly) type !reset to issue the system terminal reset command, but that would only help until the next time foo? was called, and the problem would then return. Most of us would end up just quitting ipython and restarting, often losing useful session state. The problem with this is that we never knew how to reliably reproduce it... Anyway, it's fixed now in current bzr: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ipython/ipython/stable-dev/revision/79 I don't actually know how to trigger it, but it hit me during an important session where I really couldn't afford to lose what I was working on, and I managed to track it down to what I'm pretty sure is a curses bug. Basically curses.initscr() fails to correctly initialize the terminal sometimes (I still don't have a clue why), and after that it's all lost. But it turns out that via termios one can in fact reset the terminal state reliably , so now we unconditionally do that. Anyway, I figured this would be worth mentioning here, since I know the problem is one that quite often bites people in the middle of work sessions an it can be very, very annoying. Cheers, f back to what I was busy doing, with my terminal now fully functional again... :) - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] IPython -pylab/-Xthread improvements in SVN - testers?
Hi all, sorry for the quick cross-post, but I know that many mpl users rely on the ipython -pylab support for interactive work. This is a call for testing from current SVN of anyone who uses ipython with the GUI thread support, whether via -pylab or directly via one of the -Xthread options. For a long time I've known that this code was subject to possible deadlocks, having seen it go nuts on me on occasion, but I'd never been able to track down the exact source of the race conditions causing it (I'm not an expert in threads at all). In http://ipython.scipy.org/ipython/ipython/ticket/210 http://ipython.scipy.org/ipython/ipython/ticket/212 a very helpful analysis and solution code was provided by Marc. I've applied his fixes to current SVN, and with my testing so far I've been unable to get any more deadlocks or crashes, so this looks great, and his analysis looks very sound to me. In particular, it makes proper use of a re-entrant lock which I'd originally tried to use but given up on, due to having used it incorrectly (though I knew it should be the right tool). I'd just left a comment noting the issue, which Marc's fixes now address. It would be great if any of you who relies on the GUI thread support could test this, since this threaded code is subtle and has a long history of hard to trigger but annoying bugs. You can run it from SVN. In a few minutes I'll finish uploading test builds as well to http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/testing/ if you prefer to install from there. I'd appreciate feedback, either of improvements or of any remaining misbehavior. Thanks, especially to Marc for helping us make progress on this long-standing nag. Cheers, f - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib, ipython and ubuntu
On Jan 29, 2008 4:13 PM, Tim Michelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [1]: import timeseries as TS In [2]: whos --- type 'exceptions.AttributeError'Traceback (most recent call last) /var/tmp/install/qgislite_trunk/ipython console in module() /var/lib/python-support/python2.5/IPython/iplib.py in ipmagic(self, arg_s) 962 else: 963 magic_args = self.var_expand(magic_args,1) -- 964 return fn(magic_args) 965 966 def ipalias(self,arg_s): /var/lib/python-support/python2.5/IPython/Magic.py in magic_whos(self, parameter_s) 989 array_type = None 990 else: -- 991 array_type = Numeric.ArrayType.__name__ 992 993 # Find all variable names and types so we can figure out column sizes type 'exceptions.AttributeError': 'module' object has no attribute 'ArrayType' maybe some of the IPython power users can give me a hint why this happes. [1] Very strange. I can't reproduce it here (on gutsy, but running ipython from my own tree). What's odd is this: In [1]: import Numeric In [2]: print Numeric.ArrayType type 'array' So Numeric *most definitely* has an ArrayType member. Try doing the same as I did, also showing us whether you started ipython with -pylab or not. There may be something odd about your Numeric installation. Also do this: In [3]: Numeric? Type: module Base Class: type 'module' Namespace: Interactive File: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Numeric/Numeric.py [etc] It's possible that you have in your path a file called Numeric.py which is not the 'real' Numeric module. This would explain your problem and why nobody else sees it. Cheers, f - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] New flags in IPython, of interest to matplotlib users
Hi all, This was posted to the ipython-dev list, but since it's specifically for MPL, I figured the cross-list spam would be forgiven. In IPython SVN, I just added the ability to manually control the pylab threading backend choice directly from the command line. So for example if by default you have: tlon[~] ipython -pylab --nobanner In [1]: matplotlib.rcParams['backend'] Out[1]: 'TkAgg' You can now do this as well: tlon[~] ipython -wthread -pylab --nobanner In [1]: matplotlib.rcParams['backend'] Out[1]: 'WXAgg' In [2]: Closing threads... Done. tlon[~] ipython -gthread -pylab --nobanner In [1]: matplotlib.rcParams['backend'] Out[1]: 'GTKAgg' The feature is fairly simplistic: the -Xthread flags map automatically to the XAgg backends in MPL, with no more fine-grained choice than that. We can later look into allowing explicit backend selection if you really scream for it, but I'd rather keep this simple. This means that if you don't have the *Agg builds of the GUI backends, you'll still need to do the backend selection by hand as before (i.e. by modifying your mpl config file). This has often been requested and I'd needed it myself on multiple occasions, so it's finally in. Cheers, f - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] [matplotlib-devel] New flags in IPython, of interest to matplotlib users
On Dec 12, 2007 7:16 AM, Paul Kienzle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious about the term 'threading backend'. Recently I posted a question about how to handle slow plots, suggesting that the backend canvas have an isabort() method so that the renderer can stop what it is doing and post the current bitmap as it stands. This is to support interactive operations such as panning and resizing on large data collections. Do you mean something similar when you say 'threading backend', and is it already supported in IPython? No, it just means that ipython can run in conjunction with the major GUI toolkits in a non-blocking manner. In a plain python shell, if you open a plot window (for any backend other than Tk), you can't go back to the prompt and keep typing until you close the plot. IPython allows that to happen, with Wx, GTK, Qt and Qt4. Cheers, f - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] installation problem/crash
On Dec 11, 2007 12:01 PM, Ryan Krauss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to help a student get started with Python/Scipy/Numpy/Matplotlib in windows. On one of his machines, everything seems to install correctly, we can call figure(1) without a problem, and plotting is fine until we try the show() command. Then python crashes without much in the way of useful information. His laptop is completely fine. We have downloaded a current rc file and set the backend to TkAgg. Any thoughts? How do we get more info to track down the problem? Go to the windows information screens and fetch out some CPU details. If it's a Pentium III, chances are the SSE2 instructions in the latest numpy binary are the culprit. If it's a newer chip, we'll need to dig deeper. Cheers, f - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] CocoaAgg backend status?
On Dec 5, 2007 11:55 AM, Barry Wark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen, The CocoaAgg backend is not supported in IPython. Though we'd love to support it, were a few patches to land our way :) Cheers, f - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] CocoaAgg backend status?
On Dec 5, 2007 8:37 AM, Stephen Uhlhorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just wondering what the status of the CocoaAgg backend is since there is not much info available. Can it be used interactively w/ipython? I don't know for a fact, but the answer is probalby no. Each GUI backend requires an explicit implementation in ipython, since they all have their own threading/callback/timer quirks (even qt3 and qt4 are different). Thus far, we don't have one for Cocoa. It may 'just work', but I don't know that, so if you find that it doesn't, and decide to dig in to implement the support, by all means send it our way! The file to look at for inspiration is: http://projects.scipy.org/ipython/ipython/browser/ipython/trunk/IPython/Shell.py Cheers, f - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Bug in mathtext
Hey Jorgen,
On Dec 4, 2007 12:10 PM, Jörgen Stenarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I get a complete crash dumping me in the console when there are unknown
latex commands in a mathtext expression, this when doing interactive
stuff in ipython -pylab.
examples:
title($|S_{11}|$)
that's odd, it's OK for mpl to throw the exception, what shouldn't be
happening is for ipython to fully crash out. I can't reproduce it
with SVN mpl on my box, I tried both tkagg and gtkagg as backends and
in both cases I see the exception traceback (as Michael intended by
raising the error) but I simply get back the next ipython prompt, as
usual. I don't understand how this particular exception could crash
out ipython, since it's being raised inside regular user code...
Really, really strange...
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Re: [Matplotlib-users] RuntimeError after clearing and plotting for many times
On Dec 2, 2007 2:07 PM, Yongtao Cui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could anyone give me some help? No help here, just providing a data point for the devs. Under linux, with In [5]: wx.__version__ Out[5]: '2.8.4.0' In [6]: matplotlib.__version__ Out[6]: '0.91.1' I ran test(100) several times, no error. Cheers, f - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting Continuous Functions
On Nov 24, 2007 4:17 PM, Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Angus McMorland wrote: I've found it easiest to solve these sorts of bugs by running the code in an ipython shell, with automatic pdb calling. That way you can inspect the values of the parameters in question - one of which is, I think, the problem here. I've not run ipython with pdb; I'll look at the docs to learn how. I do use winpdb on the application. If you type %pdb *before* running your scripts, then any exception that fires will automatically activate pdb. But for a while we've had a more convenient way to access pdb, which is the new %debug command. At any time if you simply type %debug, the pdb debugger will activate into the last unhandled exception. So as long as you don't wait too long after seeing an exception (since the system only works with the *last* one, if you get a new exception from a typo at the command line you lose the chance to inspect your program), you can use it in a more fluid way than letting %pdb forcefully activate every single time. Cheers, f - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] [IPython-user] matplotlib and ipython inside ide (mac osx)
On 9/7/07, killian koepsell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i am looking for help in using matplotlib inside a graphical IDE in mac osx and preferabley even ipython with matplotlib inside an IDE. i am used to interact with the python interpreter (inside ipython, even inside ipython-inside-emacs) while several plot windows are open, but i don't have any success using a graphical IDE. i tried free IDEs (eric3, eric4) and commercial ones (komodo, wing ide) but all had the same problem: the debugger was blocked as long as the matplotlib window was open. i focussed on QtAgg since eric uses Qt, but i also tried TkAgg. does anyone have a suggestion what i might be doing wrong? All I can say is that pure ipython is very likely to NOT work at all. It makes too many assumptions about being in a terminal/readline to work inside a random GUI. We do have in SVN (saw branch) a prototype WX client that will allow this, but it's still a looong way from being done. For GTK, some people did hack something out: http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/Cookbook/EmbeddingInGTK that works. I suppose you might be able to implement something similar in some other GUI, but I've never tried. By all means please post a similar page on the wiki if you do something along these lines and succeed! best, f - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Looking for a way to save a graph
On 8/24/07, David Tremouilles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK I see... nothing straightforward... Best way for me is maybe to implement such a system myself: The system would collect the information to be saved by kind of introspection of the figure. I'm planning to save data and plot properties in an hdf5 file. Kind of inverted process will be used to restore the figure. Of course I will not cover the whole possible figure case but only what I'm currently using for my work. If somebody did similar work and is eager to share or if somebody have any suggestion please let me know. A huge +1 for this approach. Pickle is NOT meant to be a persistent, on-disk file format, but rather a way to serialize the *current* state of an object in memory. Emphasis on current: if you unpickle an old pickle in an environment where the class layout of your object (or any object the parent holds a reference to) has changed, the unpickling fails, completely and irrecoverably. As someone who has already had to write pickle loader functions to salvage old pickles (because computing them had been very expensive), I've learned my lesson. Pickle works well as a way to quickly dump/load data that is either made up of simple python types *only* (since they don't change often) or for objects that you have good reason to expect won't be changing their API while you care about the pickles. But pickling is NOT a 'data format', and using it as such will inevitably lead to much pain and suffering. HDF5 *is* a data format. In our project we precisely went to hdf5 instead of pickling. Cheers, f - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] SVG vs PNG
On 5/12/07, Steve Schmerler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fernando Perez wrote:
Did you install pstoedit? If you do, you'll see that inkscape will
then be able to load .eps/.ps files in a fully editable format. I've
used it to fix decade-old plots for which the only thing around was
the eps file.
I tried to export an .svg from MPL (0.90.0rev3131) with
rcParams['text.usetex']=True and got a NotImplementedError (same for the pdf
backend
with usetex, see attached log). I was wondering: Is it (technically) possible
to have
.svg export capabilities with usetex-support and if so, has there been no
need for
this feature so far (not that I need it urgently, just curious..)?
There's actually a real MPL bug in there (not just the
NotImplementedError) but I'll report it separately in a minute.
Anyway, to work with MPL-images (.ps/.eps) in Inkscape, I installed pstoedit
but
loading these files doesn't work (seems not to recognize them as images).
Sorry if I'm driving the Inkscape-stuff a bit OT here, but:
What version of Inkscape friends are you using? I'm using pstoedit 3.44,
Inkscape
0.44.1. The Latex-formula-feature of Inkscape is also not working and the
error seems
related to pstoedit. Maybe someone had similar experiences ...
Thanks for any hint!
Well, unfortunately it seems that inkscape is crashing python
itself... I made a trivial .eps in mpl with:
In [1]: plot(range(10))
Out[1]: [matplotlib.lines.Line2D instance at 0x8f45a8c]
In [2]: title(r'Some \LaTeX $\int_0^\infty f(\gamma) d\gamma = 1$')
Out[2]: matplotlib.text.Text instance at 0x8f4590c
In [3]: savefig('foo.eps')
and when I tried to load it into inkscape, I got this very nasty traceback:
*** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python: free(): invalid pointer: 0x4081e4e0 ***
=== Backtrace: =
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0x400ee7cd]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(cfree+0x90)[0x400f1e30]
/usr/lib/skencil/Sketch/../Lib/streamfilter.so[0x404e7ce5]
/usr/lib/skencil/Sketch/../Lib/streamfilter.so[0x404e7cd2]
/usr/bin/python[0x8110e6a]
/usr/bin/python(PyEval_EvalCodeEx+0x313)[0x80c9903]
etc.
At this point, this is really becoming OT for the mpl list, so I'll
stop. But if anyone has the time, it might be worth sending this
example to the inkscape list so they work on it and hopefully fix it.
Cheers,
f
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Re: [Matplotlib-users] SVG vs PNG
On 5/11/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks everybody for the explanation of svg in Gimp. That makes sense. Is there any vector based program that does what Gimp does? Try inkscape. I've used it successfully for simple things, though I've never tried to handle a MPL SVG file with it. cheers, f - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] SVG vs PNG
On 5/11/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bingo! My prayer appears to have been answered. inkscape has no trouble reading the .svg files created by MPL, and Word has no trouble reading the .eps files created by inkscape. So, at least I can use it to preserve the vectors. Too bad inkscape doesn't read .eps directly (complaining...complaining) :=) Did you install pstoedit? If you do, you'll see that inkscape will then be able to load .eps/.ps files in a fully editable format. I've used it to fix decade-old plots for which the only thing around was the eps file. Thanks, Fernando. Glad it helped. Cheers, f - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Python issue of Computing in Science and Engineering available
On 4/25/07, Andrew Straw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The May/June issue of Computing in Science and Engineering http://computer.org/cise: is out and has a Python theme. Many folks we know and love from the community and mailing lists contribute to the issue. Read articles by Paul Dubois and Travis Oliphant for free online. plug Since authors are allowed by their publication policy to keep a publicly available copy of their papers on their personal website, here's the ipython one: http://amath.colorado.edu/faculty/fperez/preprints/ipython-cise-final.pdf /plug Cheers, f - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Python issue of Computing in Science and Engineering available
On 4/25/07, John Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/25/07, Fernando Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since authors are allowed by their publication policy to keep a publicly available copy of their papers on their personal website, here's the ipython one: Didn't know that... here's a link to my matplotlib article I'm going by the language here: http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/rights/policies.html Specifically: When IEEE publishes the work, the author must replace the previous electronic version of the accepted paper with either (1) the full citation to the IEEE work or (2) the IEEE-published version, including the IEEE copyright notice and full citation. Prior or revised versions of the paper must not be represented as the published version. This explicitly mentions author website redistribution, as long as the official IEEE version is used. Unless I'm misreading the above, I think it's OK for us to keep such copies in our personal sites. We can link to them from the scipy wiki, though I don't think it would be OK to /copy/ the PDFs to the scipy wiki. As always, IANAL and all that. Cheers, f - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Python issue of Computing in Science and Engineering available
On 4/25/07, Christopher Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Perez wrote: This explicitly mentions author website redistribution, as long as the official IEEE version is used. Unless I'm misreading the above, I think it's OK for us to keep such copies in our personal sites. We can link to them from the scipy wiki, though I don't think it would be OK to /copy/ the PDFs to the scipy wiki. I assume you are referring to this: D. Personal Servers. Authors and/or their companies shall have the right to post their IEEE-copyrighted material on their own servers without permission, provided that the server displays a prominent notice alerting readers to their obligations with respect to copyrighted material and that the posted work includes the IEEE copyright notice as shown in Section 8.1.9A above. IANAL either, but I'm not sure how they would define a personal server. Would a web page on a University server count, for instance? Id think putting it on the Wiki would count. Key is that copyright is properly attributed. I assume there is someone at IEEE that you could ask. Well, I simply interpreted 'personal' as my personal page, on my institution's servers, while I worry that physically uploading it to scipy's servers, which are owned by an external entity (Enthought) might land them in trouble. I may be overly cautious here, but I just didn't want to take chances. Cheers, f - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] Request for testing: IPython
Hi all, sorry to spam the list a bit, but what follows is of direct interest to a good number of matplotlib users. Yesterday we put out here: http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/testing/ a release candidate for IPython 0.7.4, as well as PyReadline (needed by windows users). There is one new feature in this release which is of particular interest to matplotlib users: the ability to hit Ctrl-C to interrupt a long-running script or computation, even when using any of the multithreaded backends for matplotlib (WX, GTK or QT-based). Doing this requires ctypes (part of python 2.5 but not automatically in 2.4), and I had to use an undocumented feature of the Python C API, so this is a bit of a 'black hack'. On the other hand, it is *extremely* useful to be able to stop something you didn't want to run for long without having to completely kill your ipython session. Since I'm not 100% sure this will really work without any glitches, I'd greatly appreciate the testing from any willing participants here. If this feature survives real-world beating, we'll release next week. If the feature remains, I'm likely to change the official version number to 0.8 to indicate a new series with asynchronous exception support in multiple threads. thanks, f - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] passing mouse clicks back to a polling application
On 4/5/07, belinda thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darn. I am writing this reply as a desperate attempt to make sure there's not some quick fix to make it work in my specific case; I'm about ready to give up or try something like Tk, but am running out of time. We might, alas, have to settle for a command-line based game :-(. This has already been mentioned, but not in this theread: http://gael-varoquaux.info/computers/traits_tutorial/index.html You may find it useful, he describes a number of concepts that are involved in this discussion in a step-by-step fashion. regards, f - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] matlab, idle, interactivity and teaching
On 3/30/07, Mark Bakker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always thought ipython didn't come with a good editor. Am I mistaken? You are not mistaken, and this is by design: ipython is not an IDE, it's the interactive component of a python workflow. As others have mentioned (thanks to all, btw), it has limited support for specifying your editor and a special command called %edit. Many people find this very useful, which is why I added it. Personally I don't use that at all. My workflow consists of an open Emacs session (with multiple frames, typically) and a terminal with ipython in it. I do the heavy-duty editing in Emacs (replace with vi, IDLE, Komodo or any other editor of your preference), save, and then run the code in the terminal via run filename Since ipython has history that backtracks on what you've typed so far, this normally just requires typing 'r' and then 'up-arrow' once. I personally don't find it any more cumbersome than hitting some F-key in an IDE, and I get the power of Emacs with the comfort of a good terminal (Konsole in my case). Others have mentioned how ipython can also be used *inside* emacs, which can be very handy for complex debugging. It's not my daily environment because I prefer Konsole to the emacs terminal, but it is certainly a good way to work for many. IPython comes from the Unix tradition of 'do one thing well and let users work whichever way they want' rather than the windows approach of 'provide a single, fully integrated mega-app'. So it is easy to use ipython with your personal combination of editor and terminal emulator, but it does NOT provide the kind of IDE feel many expect these days. Whether this particular balance is a feature or a drawback is largely dependent on personal preference, I think. We are currently refactoring ipython in a way that will make it very easy to embed all of its functionality into the terminal component of an IDE. So hopefully in the future, this discussion won't have to happen: I'll be able to use ipython the way I do today, but it will become possible for IDE authors to incorporate it in their own environments. Until then, it's worth understanding the pros and cons of using ipython so you can decide whether you find its approach comfortable for your style. Regards, f - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] creating live plot (update while data is arriving)
On 3/28/07, Ken McIvor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You'd almost certainly be happier doing things the other way around. Most GUI toolkits are extremely fussy about what thread the GUI event loop runs in. For example, wxPython requires App.MainLoop() be called from the thread that first imported the wxPython module. That being said, it's possible to run the GUI thread in the background -- the iPython wizards might be able to help you figure it out. No, the limitation you describe is there just as much. What we do in ipython is push the *user code* execution into the secondary thread, to make sure we keep the GUI toolkits happy for the very reasons you outline. Cheers, f - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Ipython and python2.5
On 1/26/07, Fernando Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/25/07, Alan G Isaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Fernando Perez apparently wrote: Let us know if this is not enough or if you have any other issues. How about for Windows users? You list as dependencies: [...] We obviously need to update the windows documentation... Done in SVN, thanks for reporting this. regards, f - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] Hold-related strangeness, looks like a bug.
Hi all,
today at work we ran into some odd behavior, all of which seems to be
triggered by calling hold(). I'm using a fresh SVN build from this
afternoon.
Here's the first example demonstrating the problem, it's best to run
this in a fresh pylab shell or from the command line, since I suspect
internal state matters (when it shouldn't):
import pylab as P
x = P.arange(10)
y = x+1
P.figure()
P.plot(x,label='one')
P.plot(y,label='two')
P.legend()
P.title('Two plots ok')
P.figure()
P.hold(True)
P.plot(x,label='one')
P.plot(y,label='two')
P.legend()
P.title('Two plots ok - HOLD called')
P.hold(False)
P.figure()
P.plot(x,label='one')
P.plot(y,label='two')
P.legend()
P.title('One plot MISSING!')
P.show()
EOF
And here's the second manifestation of the problem, where the colorbar
gets all messed up:
import numpy as N
import pylab as P
a = N.random.rand(64,64)
P.figure()
P.imshow(a)
P.colorbar()
P.title('Colorbar OK')
# If the hold() calls are commented out, the problem disappears
P.figure()
P.hold(True)
P.plot(range(10))
P.hold(False)
P.figure()
P.imshow(a)
P.colorbar()
P.title('Colorbar BROKEN!')
P.show()
EOF
It looks like making calls to hold() messes up internal state in pylab
somehow. I've never used hold() myself before, but my officemate did,
coming from matlab, and started seeing bizarre behavior. These are
little self-contained examples showing the problem.
Cheers,
f
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Re: [Matplotlib-users] Hold-related strangeness, looks like a bug.
Hi Simon,
On 3/8/07, Simon Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 3/8/07, Fernando Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
today at work we ran into some odd behavior, all of which seems to be
triggered by calling hold(). I'm using a fresh SVN build from this
afternoon.
Here's the first example demonstrating the problem, it's best to run
this in a fresh pylab shell or from the command line, since I suspect
internal state matters (when it shouldn't):
import pylab as P
x = P.arange(10)
y = x+1
P.figure()
P.plot(x,label='one')
P.plot(y,label='two')
P.legend()
P.title('Two plots ok')
P.figure()
P.hold(True)
P.plot(x,label='one')
P.plot(y,label='two')
P.legend()
P.title('Two plots ok - HOLD called')
P.hold(False)
P.figure()
P.plot(x,label='one')
P.plot(y,label='two')
P.legend()
P.title('One plot MISSING!')
P.show()
EOF
I do not think this is a bug. The default value for the hold function is
True. When you originally plotted x and y the hold state was already set to
True. So, actually your first case and second case are the same. However,
right before your third figure you set P.hold(False) . You then plot x
followed by y. So, yes I would expect to see only one line in the final
figure. This is exactly like Matlab (perhaps with the exception that the
default state of hold is False in Matlab). Perhaps that is what is confusing
you and your colleague. In Matlab the default state of hold is False,
however in Matplotlib is looks like the default state of hold is True.
Many thanks for your clear explanation. Since I had never used hold
(or matlab for that matter) in my life, I was rather surprised by the
behavior and (mis)understood it as a bug.
I've always gotten by just fine in pylab without even knowing what
hold did, and simply clearing the figure by hand when needed or just
making a new one.
Sorry for the noise.
Regards,
f
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Re: [Matplotlib-users] [Numpy-discussion] Unifying numpy, scipy, and matplotlib docstring formats
Hi, On 2/25/07, Jouni K. Seppänen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suppose these things could be addressed quite neatly by IPython. It could even modify your history similarly to what it currently does with the %magic commands, so that when you type Feel free to play with implementing this, it's easy to do so on your personal setup, since input prefilter can be trivially added by any user. Once you find a set of tools that you're happy with, just send them my way and we'll include them officially. Here's some links you may find useful: http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/manual/node7.html#SECTION00073000 http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/manual/node11.html the code for these extensions ships already with ipython, under IPython/Extensions. Look at the one for quantities with units, it's a good starting point for what you want to do. Perhaps the namespace issue could also be addressed at the IPython level. The pylab profile could import the various packages, perhaps with some kind of abbreviated names, and rewrite commands like Ditto. Regards, f - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] setting the default line style order
On 2/23/07, Fernando Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/23/07, Jouni K. Seppänen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Blais [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to specify the default order of line colors and styles, for plot commands given in sequence I don't think there is built-in support for this. See e.g. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.matplotlib.general/5708 for some previous discussion and suggestions. It's probably worth mentioning that the cyclers John mentions are trivial to write using itertools: Sorry, tab put me in the 'send' button in gmail too early... I meant: import itertools colorcycler = itertools.cycle(['blue','green','red','magenta','cyan']).next linecycler = itertools.cycle([ '-','--', '-.' , ':' ]).next n = itertools.count().next y = array([1,2,3]) for i in range(10): plot(y+n(),color=colorcycler(),linestyle=linecycler()) Cheers, f - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] Buglet with vertical scale markers?
Hi all, this simple test plot([3e-6,3e-5,3e-4]) produces with current SVN a vertical axis with all labels as '0'. I first saw this with some actual data I was working with this week, and I imagine this isn't intended behavior. It's not a big deal, but I figured I'd report it. Cheers, f - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Buglet with vertical scale markers?
On 1/27/07, Eric Firing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando, I think it is OK in svn now. Much better, thanks! Regards, f - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Ipython and python2.5
On 1/25/07, Alan G Isaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Fernando Perez apparently wrote: Let us know if this is not enough or if you have any other issues. How about for Windows users? You list as dependencies: # PyWin32 from http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond But that link is broken. Can we just use pywin32-210.win32-py2.5.exe from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/ ? Yes, should be the same thing. # CTypes from http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes But that should not apply to Python 2.5+, right? Correct, ctypes is now included. # PyReadline for Windows from http://projects.scipy.org/ipython/ipython/wiki/PyReadline/Intro But the correct link now seems to be http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/PyReadline/Intro and the binary installer instructions there are Python 2.4 specific. (I assume they translate directly to 2.5.) Yup. We obviously need to update the windows documentation... So I installed PyWin32 as above, and PyReadline. I do NOT see IPython in my Start Menu nor when I look at Install/Uninstall programs. I do see an IPython folder in Lib/site-packages, so I guessed I should call Shell.py, but this is either a bad guess or IPython is failing: I briefly see a shell labelled IPython flash on screen and disappear. As Dave said, you may need to run the post-install script manually. The binary win32 installer does this for you because when the installer is /built/, it is told what to do as a post-install step. But a manual installation from source may require that step to be applied manually (it's been years since I wrote that code, and much of the win32 setup has been changed since by others, so take anything I say here with a big grain of salt). Cheers, f - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] numpy and matplotlib usage
Hi Belinda, On 12/29/06, belinda thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using matplotlib w/numerix set to numpy (as described in my prior post). What I am wondering is in what situations one would want to: import pylab import numpy together, because there is matlab-style stuff (e.g. matrices, arrays, cumprod, fft, arange etc.) by importing the pylab package alone. To add to Eric's detailed reply, keep in mind that much of this duplication is a historical accident. John Hunter developed mpl (and hence pylab) back in the Dark Days of the Split (aka, when we lived with Numeric and Numarray, both lacking critical functionality). At that time he needed various pieces of numerical functionality for his own work, so the most logical thing to do was to put it in the package he had control over: matplotlib. In fact, the same thing happened in three places: if you look at the python landscape for these tools around 2003/4, you'll find that ipython, scipy and matplotlib ALL had tools for: interactive work, plotting and numerics. Over time, as each package has matured, we've all tried to move away from this, so that hopefully the responsibilities will be: - ipython - interactive work - numpy/scipy - numerics - matploblib - plotting While little code has been removed yet (to avoid breaking compatibility for existing users), at least most of what mattered has been moved to where it makes sense: numpy inherited utilities from ipython and pylab, ipython has absorbed the interactive support for matplotlib and I don't develop its plotting tools anymore (they were for gnuplot), etc. Following these ideas, in my personal use I normally do: import numpy as N import scipy as S import pylab as P and I try to use P.plottingStuff(), N.arrayStuff() and S.scipyOnlyThings(). I think this is an approach that better matches the real intent of these tools for the long term. I hope this is useful. best, f - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Some remarks/questions about perceived slowness of matplotlib
On 12/12/06, John Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --verbose-helpful will confirm the setting). A good way to start is to write a demonstration script that you find too slow which makes a call to savefig, and run it with time myscript.py --verbose-helpful -dAgg It may be worth mentioning here this little utility (Linux only, unfortunately): http://amath.colorado.edu/faculty/fperez/python/profiling/ For profiling more complex codes, it's really a godsend. And note that the generated cachegrind files are typically small and can be sent to others for analysis, so you can run it locally (if for example the run depends on data you can't share) and then send to the list the generated profile. Anyone with Kcachegrind will then be able to load your profile info and study it in detail. Cheers, f - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
