[matplotlib-devel] mpl eggs and Tcl-Tk 8.5

2008-10-05 Thread Randy Heiland
Short/naive question: do the mpl eggs have a dependency on Tk 8.4? Longer question: I'm trying to support a plugin (NLOPredict) to a popular molecular vis pkg (UCSF Chimera) and, no surprise, the plugin uses mpl. Chimera bundles its own Python, plus all dependencies. The latest version s

[matplotlib-devel] Axes.add_line() is oddly slow?

2008-10-05 Thread Eric Firing
I am getting very inconsistent timings when looking into plotting a line with a very large number of points. Axes.add_line() is very slow, and the time is taken by Axes._update_line_limits(). But when I simply run the latter, on a Line2D of the same dimensions, it can be fast. import matplotl