Re: [matplotlib-devel] auto range limits for spines: please kick the tires

2009-12-21 Thread John Hunter
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Andrew Straw wrote: > John also suggested something like this. I don't think it's impossible, > but it's outside the scope of the work I have done and beyond my > immediate familiarity with the code base. I think it would involve > looking at the tick label boundi

Re: [matplotlib-devel] auto range limits for spines: please kick the tires

2009-12-21 Thread Andrew Straw
Gary Ruben wrote: > This looks nice Andrew, > I haven't tried it, but I wonder whether it's possible to add a > keyword arg to suppress the 0's at the origin which are cut through by > the axes in the zeroed case (and/or possibly shift the 0 on the > horizontal axis left). The same thing is happ

Re: [matplotlib-devel] auto range limits for spines: please kick the tires

2009-12-21 Thread Gary Ruben
This looks nice Andrew, I haven't tried it, but I wonder whether it's possible to add a keyword arg to suppress the 0's at the origin which are cut through by the axes in the zeroed case (and/or possibly shift the 0 on the horizontal axis left). The same thing is happening in the (1,2) case on t

Re: [matplotlib-devel] boxplot notch

2009-12-21 Thread Andrew Straw
Andrew Straw wrote: > Also, I think that formula is only for normally distributed data. Which, > especially if you're using boxplots, medians, and quartiles, may not be > a valid assumption. > > Maybe we should at least raise a warning when someone uses notch=1. The > current implementation seem

Re: [matplotlib-devel] boxplot notch

2009-12-21 Thread Andrew Straw
Andrew Straw wrote: > Also, I think that formula is only for normally distributed data. Which, > especially if you're using boxplots, medians, and quartiles, may not be > a valid assumption. > > Maybe we should at least raise a warning when someone uses notch=1. The > current implementation seem

Re: [matplotlib-devel] notes on Windows 7 cygwin 1.7 installation

2009-12-21 Thread John Hunter
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Glen Nixon wrote: > Hi all.  With some effort, I've managed to get matplotlib-0.99.1.1 with > cygwin 1.7 (beta) on Windows 7.  Since Google didn't turn up any > instructions specifically addressing the problems I had, maybe these > notes will be helpful to others.

[matplotlib-devel] notes on Windows 7 cygwin 1.7 installation

2009-12-21 Thread Glen Nixon
Hi all. With some effort, I've managed to get matplotlib-0.99.1.1 with cygwin 1.7 (beta) on Windows 7. Since Google didn't turn up any instructions specifically addressing the problems I had, maybe these notes will be helpful to others. - System details - Windows 7, 32-bit, AMD Athlon II

Re: [matplotlib-devel] auto range limits for spines: please kick the tires

2009-12-21 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
Andrew Straw writes: > if you update from svn and play around with the demo, especially by > panning and zooming in the figures, you'll get an idea of what I've > done. Neat! One small thing: in Figure 2 (the four subplots with differently placed spines) if I zoom and pan subplot 4, I can make i