Re: [Matplotlib-users] showing current value on boxplot
Ravi A. ravi.ara...@gmail.com writes: I am using boxplot and i wanted to mark current value or any special value on the box plot. How do i achieve this? Something like below. Just plot the special value, with hold=True if you have set the hold default to false. One small issue is that plot autoscales the view tightly, which looks bad with the boxes, so you may want to nudge it a bit: from pylab import * boxplot(random((10,10))) plot(arange(1,11), random(10), 'rx', ms=5, mew=2, hold=True) a,b = xlim() xlim(a-.5,b+.5) show() -- Jouni K. Seppänen http://www.iki.fi/jks -- 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] Custom ticklabels on colorbar
Jae-Joon Lee wrote:
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Scott
Sinclairscott.sinclair...@gmail.com wrote:
I just realized that I did not give the correct plot object when creating
the colorbar. Now it works perfectly to pass arguments by set_xticklabels().
However, another question just arose. To format the numbers on the tick
labels I tried to pass a format string when creating the colorbar with the
format parameter. But it has no effect. The same when I give a
FormatStrFormatter object. I also tried to use
cb.ax.axis.set_major_formatter(). The effect of this was. That it sets the
labels to the range between 0 and 1. Is there a solution for this problem
besides entering the tick labels manually?
The tick locator and tick formatter needs to be passed during the
colorbar creation. Otherwise,
it gets very tricky to deal with. This is because the data coordinate
of the colorbar axes is not directly associated with the ticklabels.
If passing the formatter during the colorbar creation has no effect,
this should be filed as a bug. Please post a small standalone example
that reproduces your problem. Also, please report your version of
matplotlib. If you're using older version, I recommend you to test it
with newer version.
Just in case, my quick test worked fine.
imshow([[1,2],[2,3]])
cb=colorbar(format=r$%2.1f\%%$)
-JJ
I just tried this but it did not work for me. The code that I am using
looks like this
ax1 = fig1.add_subplot(3,len(fname)/2,i+1,frameon=False)
temp = np.linspace(data1_amp.min(),data1_amp.max(),3)
pc1 = ax1.imshow(data1_amp,cmap=nat,vmin=temp[0],vmax=temp[-1])
ax1.set_xlim((0,250))
ax1.set_ylim((0,256))
ax1.set_xticks([])
ax1.set_yticks([])
ax1.set_xticklabels('')
ax1.set_yticklabels('')
if i==0:
ax1.set_ylabel('Amplitude
[mV]',family='serif',size=10,weight='bold')
ax1.set_title(title[i],family='serif',fontsize=10,weight='bold')
cb1 =
fig1.colorbar(pc1,ax=ax1,orientation='horizontal',pad=0.025,ticks=temp,format=r$%2.1f\%%$)
cb1.ax.set_xticklabels(temp,fontsize=10,family='serif')
setp(cb1.ax.get_xticklines(),visible=False)
plt.draw()
a= ax1.get_position().get_points()
b= cb1.ax.get_position().get_points()
temp = [a[0,0], b[0,1], (a[1,0]-a[0,0]), (b[1,1]-b[0,1])]
cb1.ax.set_position(temp)
I am using matplotlib 0.98.5.2. If anyone has an idea I would be very
glad if you can post here.
Thanks in advance
Daniel
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Re: [Matplotlib-users] showing current value on boxplot
Worked like a charm. Thank you very much! I really appreciate the sample code and teaching by example. Jouni K. Seppänen wrote: Ravi A. ravi.ara...@gmail.com writes: I am using boxplot and i wanted to mark current value or any special value on the box plot. How do i achieve this? Something like below. Just plot the special value, with hold=True if you have set the hold default to false. One small issue is that plot autoscales the view tightly, which looks bad with the boxes, so you may want to nudge it a bit: from pylab import * boxplot(random((10,10))) plot(arange(1,11), random(10), 'rx', ms=5, mew=2, hold=True) a,b = xlim() xlim(a-.5,b+.5) show() -- Jouni K. Seppänen http://www.iki.fi/jks -- 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 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/showing-current-value-on-boxplot-tp25115648p25130265.html Sent from the matplotlib - users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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] Problem with hitlist(evt) - Possible solution
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[Matplotlib-users] contour lines not hidden by patches
Can't figure this out: I create a figure, add some axes, define data to be plotted as a contourf + contour on top and then add some patches to hide some regions of my plot. The patches hide the contourf correctly, as expected, but not the contour lines... Could someone telle me whether I'm doing something wrong ? Below are the code lines. I'm using python 2.4, matplotlib 0.91.2 Thanks in advance, Aure #-- pylab.clf() fig = pylab.figure(figsize=(7.,3.8),dpi=100,facecolor='white') axes1 = fig.add_axes((.),label='axes1') axes2 = fig.add_axes((.),label='axes2') axes3 = fig.add_axes((.),label='axes3') #define contour data contourstep = 0.05 contourx = np.arange(0.01,2.5+contourstep,contourstep) contoury = np.arange(0.01,4.+contourstep,contourstep) contourxy1 = np.ones((len(contoury),len(contourx))) contourxy2 = np.ones((len(contoury),len(contourx))) x = np.arange(0.,6.,0.01) for j in range(contourxy1.shape[0]): for k in range(contourxy1.shape[1]): newval1=... newval2=... contourxy1[j,k] = newval1 contourxy2[j,k] = newval2 #add contour levels = np.arange(0.0,0.85,0.05) cf1 = axes1.contourf(-contourx,contoury,contourxy2,levels,cmap=bone_r,extend = 'max') #cmap=mpl.cm.gray_r) cf2 = axes2.contourf(contourx,contoury,contourxy1,levels,cmap=bone_r,extend = 'max') #cmap=mpl.cm.gray_r) levels2 = np.arange(0.,.45,0.05) axes1.contour(-contourx,contoury,contourxy2,levels2,colors='gray') axes2.contour(contourx,contoury,contourxy1,levels2,colors='gray') #add patches axes1.add_patch(mpl.patches.Polygon([(-1.,1),(-2.,1.),(-2.,2.)], edgecolor='k', facecolor='w', )) axes1.add_patch(mpl.patches.Polygon([(-1.,1.),(0.,0.),(0.,1.)], edgecolor='k', facecolor='w', )) axes2.add_patch(mpl.patches.Polygon([(0.,1.),(2.,1.),(2.,2.),(0.,2.)], edgecolor='k', facecolor='w', )) pylab.savefig(outputfilename) #-- -- 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] APLpy 0.9.4 Release
We are pleased to announce the release of APLpy 0.9.4, which includes bug fixes, improvements, and new features. APLpy is a python module that makes it easy to interactively produce publication-quality plots of astronomical images in FITS format. More details are available at http://aplpy.sourceforge.net/ The main change with this release is that APLpy now requires matplotlib 0.99. More information on the changes in this version is available in the release notes available from the APLpy homepage. From the front page you can sign up to the mailing list and/or the Twitter feed to be kept up-to-date on future releases. Cheers, Eli Bressert and Thomas Robitaille -- 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] contour lines not hidden by patches
Auré Gourrier aurelien.gourr...@yahoo.fr writes: The patches hide the contourf correctly, as expected, but not the contour lines... Sounds like a zorder problem: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/zorder_demo.html Below are the code lines. Since several details were edited out, the code sample is not runnable, so I couldn't try it out myself. I think it's probably the zorder, though. -- Jouni K. Seppänen http://www.iki.fi/jks -- 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] Pareto diagram - align cumulative percentage marker in the middle of the bars
I trying to create a Pareto diagram and would like that the percentage marker is center aligned on the bars, i.e. the blue point should be center aligned on the bar instead of to be aligned on the left edge in the following image. The other problem I have is that the xtick_labels are cut off at the bottom when the frame is resized below a certain size. How can I prevent this? Thanks for any tips on these problems. Werner -- 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] Memory leak somewhere?
You made my day!
Long life to The close()
All my ram and swap file was sucked every time a run my script to generate
260 png images...almost killing my ubuntu!
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:23 PM, John Hunter jdh2...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Michael Droettboom md...@stsci.edu
wrote:
Does it help if you add a call to plt.clf() to the bottom of the loop?
The pyplot interface keeps a reference around to every figure created
until they are destroyed so that it can be obtained again by number
(this is functionality inspired by matlab). Alternatively, you can use
the object-oriented interface to create the figure, which does not have
this behavior, e.g., replace
fig = plt.figure()
with
from matplotlib import figure
fig = figure.Figure()
If all this doesn't help, let me know and I'll look further.
Cheers,
Mike
iCy-fLaME wrote:
I was trying to use matplotlib to plot a series of 2D images, but
python was using up a large amount of RAM very quickly. I don't know
matplotlib that well, so the chance are I am missing something, would
appreciate it if anyone can point me to the right direction.
I am using:
Python 2.4.3 (#1, Jan 21 2009, 01:11:33)
[GCC 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42)] on linux2
Example code to run in interpreter mode:
from numpy import zeros
x = 1651
y = 452
page = zeros((x, y)).astype('float')
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('Agg')
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
for i in range(1000):
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
cax = ax.imshow(page, cmap=plt.cm.spectral_r, extent=(-44, 176,
-30,
30), interpolation = 'bicubic', vmin = -0.003, vmax = 0.003)
title = Time = %(i)0.3es) % {'i':i}
ax.set_title(title,fontsize=14)
fig.colorbar(cax, ticks=[-2e-3, -1e-3, 0, 1e-3, 2e-3],
orientation='horizontal')
fig.savefig('_tmp.' + str(i) + .png, dpi=300)
This code creates 1000 different figures -- either reuse the same
figure and clear it as Michael suggests
fig = plt.figure(1) # by putting 1 here you reuse the same fig
fig.clf() # and clear it
or close the figure in the loop
fig = plt.figure()
# draw and save here
plt.close(fig)
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Re: [Matplotlib-users] Custom ticklabels on colorbar
Please, take your time and post a standalone code that reproduces your problem so that others can actually test. Also, please describe what results you have and why they are wrong. On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Daniel Platzmail.to.daniel.pl...@googlemail.com wrote: fig1.colorbar(pc1,ax=ax1,orientation='horizontal',pad=0.025,ticks=temp,format=r$%2.1f\%%$) cb1.ax.set_xticklabels(temp,fontsize=10,family='serif') The set_xticklabels command actually overrides the format setting you specified in the colorbar call, which might be the reason that the script does not work as you intended. But, it is hard to tell without the runnable code. -JJ -- 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] Pareto diagram - align cumulative percentage marker in the middle of the bars
Werner F. Bruhin werner.bru...@free.fr writes: I trying to create a Pareto diagram and would like that the percentage marker is center aligned on the bars, Perhaps the easiest solution is to use bar(...,align='center'). -- Jouni K. Seppänen http://www.iki.fi/jks -- 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] Pareto diagram - align cumulative percentage marker in the middle of the bars
Jouni K. Seppänen wrote: Werner F. Bruhin werner.bru...@free.fr writes: I trying to create a Pareto diagram and would like that the percentage marker is center aligned on the bars, Perhaps the easiest solution is to use bar(...,align='center'). Thanks, that does the trick for me, after getting rid of some hack for the bar labels. Werner -- 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] Pareto diagram - align cumulative percentage marker in the middle of the bars
Werner F. Bruhin wrote: The other problem I have is that the xtick_labels are cut off at the bottom when the frame is resized below a certain size. How can I prevent this? I don't think MPL yet has a system for making things fit, so you need to change the size/position of your axes object: axes.set_position(pos, which='both') Set the axes position with: pos = [left, bottom, width, height] these are in figure units which are relative to figure size, from 0 to 1. Unfortunately, what this means is that the amount of space for the axis labels varies with the size of the figure, as you've discovered. The default for a single axes in a figure is: (0.125, 0.1, 0.9, 0.9) so you might try something like: axes.set_position((0.125, 0.15, 0.9, 0.85) ) what is best depends on what size you want your figure to look good at. -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/ORR(206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception chris.bar...@noaa.gov -- 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] possible bug with linestyle='steps'
Hi, I just installed matplotlib 0.99.0 and I see that this problem is still there. The command plot(a,ls='steps') is equivalent to plot(a,ls='steps-pre') and both cause the first value of the array to NOT be plotted. This is REALLY not what should happen when one plots an array with several values. It is fine if there is a custom option to make that behavior (like 'steps-pre'), but the default for ls='steps' or step(x,y) must be to have the first flat level at the level of the first entry (what the 'steps-post' does). The docstring now correctly describes the behavior, so that is good, but please please make the default steps be steps-post. Thanks, -- Paul On Jul 19, 2009, at 9:35 AM, John Hunter wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Paul Raypaul@nrl.navy.mil wrote: Ryan Krauss-2 wrote: RTFM: plot(t,y, drawstyle='steps-post') Actually, 'steps-pre' (which is the default) and 'steps-post' seem to have swapped definitions. Here is what the docs say: *where*: [ 'pre' | 'post' | 'mid' ] If 'pre', the interval from x[i] to x[i+1] has level y[i] If 'post', that interval has level y[i+1] If 'mid', the jumps in *y* occur half-way between the *x*-values. In fact both the default behavior and what you get with steps-pre are what SHOULD happen with steps-post. And steps-post (as you point out) does what should be the default behavior and that of steps-pre. I have filed a bug report on this, since it is very important that this work as expected. As the original poster pointed out, this used to work correctly but recently seems to have gotten broken. I am looking first at the behavior of plot with the drawstyle property set -- let's make sure this is correct before turning to the steps command, which just uses plot with the drawstyle set -- here is my test code import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111) a = np.array([1,2,3,4,5]) styles = 'default' , 'steps' , 'steps-pre' , 'steps-mid' , 'steps- post' styles = 'steps' , 'steps-pre' for ls in styles: ax.plot(a, ls=ls, label=ls, lw=2) ax.legend(loc='upper left') plt.show() pre causes the step to rise on the x[i], post causes it to rise on x[i+1] and mid in the middle. This seems like the correct behavior. So it does look like the docstring for 'step' is incorrect, and I've changed it to read *where*: [ 'pre' | 'post' | 'mid' ] If 'pre', the interval from x[i] to x[i+1] has level y[i+1] If 'post', that interval has level y[i] If 'mid', the jumps in *y* occur half-way between the JDH -- 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] Issue with Matplotlib on Win32 and ImportError: DLL load failed
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 7:27 PM, John Hunterjdh2...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Patrick Rynhartprynh...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, We are using Python 2.5, matplotlib and NumPy on Windows to assist with the teaching for an undergraduate paper. On a small number of installations, an error attempting to load some required DLL's is being reported (on approx 3 machines out of approximately 60). There doesn't appear to be any pattern with this - we can seen it on one install of Windows Server 2008 and also on various versions of Windows XP (Professional and Home). Symptoms are, after a from pylab import *, the following traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File C:\Documents and Settings\Jo\workspace\test\src\root\nested\__init__.py, line 2, in module from pylab import * File C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\pylab.py, line 1, in module from matplotlib.pylab import * File C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib\pylab.py, line 206, in module from matplotlib import mpl # pulls in most modules File C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib\mpl.py, line 1, in module from matplotlib import artist File C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib\artist.py, line 4, in module from transforms import Bbox, IdentityTransform, TransformedBbox, TransformedPath File C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib\transforms.py, line 34, in module from matplotlib._path import affine_transform ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found. We have seen this problem several times before, and have labored hard to banish it, but it always has a way of coming back to haunt us. I am aware of a bug in python2.6 which causes mingw to build broken win32 binaries, but am not aware of such a problem w/ python2.5, which you appear to be using. We often use a program called dependency walker to track these problems down: http://www.dependencywalker.com/ Open the problematic file (it should be C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib\_path.pyd) and report any errors you find here; it should tell you which DLLs are missing. Search the good and the bad boxes for these DLL filenames and see if it is a difference in the boxes, eg do the good boxes have the DLL and the bad boxes not, and if so maybe you can figure out why (different version in the OS patch level?). I am really interested to know the difference in the boxes because it may give us the critical clue as to why some users report this problem and others do not see it. Also, on one of the bad boxes, could you try the new 0.99 release and let me know if you have the same issue? I build the python2.5 installers with mingw; Christoph builds the python2.6 installers with Visual Studio precisely because mingw is broken on python2.6. If we can't banish this bug on 2.5 w/ mingw, I may have to lean on his generosity and ask him to make a python2.5 installer with Visual Studio as well. JDH PS: rereading your email, I see you are using 0.98.3. The first time I read it, when I wrote the response above, I thought you were using 0.98.5.3 -- the .3 at the end tricked me. The latter is fairly recent, and came out 10 months after 0.98.3, and we did several things to fix exactly this dll problem in interim. At a minimum, you need to be testing and installing 0.98.5.3. This is a very stable, bug fix release, suitable for use in the classroom. I can't guarantee you won't hit the same problem, but at least you will be using a version that *shouldn't* have it, though I am still interested in the results of the dependency walker tests above, because I have wasted so much time trying to fix these win32 installers. Dear John, Many thanks for your detailed post with regard to how to troubleshoot this issue. The use of dependency walker allowed me to determine that affected systems were missing the Visual C/C++ shared runtime libraries - in particular, MSVCP71.DLL (the version of the runtime shipped with Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003) was missing on these systems. According to http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/326922, installing the .NET 1.1 framework should - as a side-effect - also install this DLL. However, on Windows Server 2008 (the only box that I have direct access to in a faulted state) this DLL didn't seem to install when I installed the .NET 1.1 framework. (Aside: This could be because Explorer in Vista/2K8 appears to hide system files exceptionally well. Even after playing with the Windows Desktop Search syntax I couldn't get a match. Dropping to a cmd prompt and listing %systemroot%\system32 also didn't provide a match for the DLL.) On one of the student Windows XP machines, I copied the above DLL from a working XP SP3 install to C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib and confirmed that matplotlib then works correctly. Attempting the same trick on Server 2K8 didn't work, but this is probably to be expected (given that it's
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Issue with Matplotlib on Win32 and ImportError: DLL load failed
Hi again, Just to update you, copying across the Visual C/C++ runtime library (MSVCP71.DLL) from a Windows XP SP3 install to C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib on Windows Server 2008 does in fact appear to work correctly with matplotlib after all. Regards, Patrick -- Dr Patrick Rynhart Linux Systems Administrator / Team Leader IT Support Group School of Engineering and Advanced Technology AgHort A Room 3.61 Massey University (Turitea Campus) NEW ZEALAND Phone +64 6 356 9099 extn 2444 -- 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] Issue with Matplotlib on Win32 and ImportError: DLL load failed
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Patrick Rynhartprynh...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks again for your help. Do you think that testing for the version of the Visual C redistributable is required during an install of matplotlib (and/or possibly at runtime). This shouldn't be an issue with recent binaries of mpl, eg 0.99 and later, so hopefully we won't have to worry about this install check. I think we've fixed the MSVCP71.DLL problem, but if you experience otherwise let us know. JDH -- 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
