Re: [Matplotlib-users] Some remarks/questions about perceived slowness of matplotlib

2006-12-18 Thread David Cournapeau
David Cournapeau wrote: > Eric Firing wrote: >> There is a clip function in all three numeric packages, so a native >> clip is being used. >> >> If numpy.clip is actually slower than your version, that sounds like a >> problem with the implementation in numpy. By all logic a single clip >> func

[Matplotlib-users] Using Apple's freetype2 for mpl on OS X

2006-12-18 Thread Tom Loredo
Hi folks- I'd like to report a possible way for OS X mpl users to use Apple's freetype2 (in their X11), to see if there are any problems with it I may need to be aware of, and if not, to offer it as a possible solution to others installing mpl from source on OS X. I know Apple's freetype2 was "b

Re: [Matplotlib-users] gradients in bar graphs

2006-12-18 Thread John Hunter
> "Jeff" == Jeff Huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeff> Is it possible to have gradients in the bar graphs made by Jeff> matplotlib? I couldn't find anything about it in the user Jeff> guide. Here is some example code form the mailing list To: Christopher Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTE

[Matplotlib-users] gradients in bar graphs

2006-12-18 Thread Jeff Huang
Is it possible to have gradients in the bar graphs made by matplotlib? I couldn't find anything about it in the user guide. Thanks Jeff - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay pa

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Usability with matplotlib

2006-12-18 Thread Eric Firing
Pierre, Offhand, it looks like it should go into ticker.py, so I will probably do that. Eric Pierre GM wrote: > On Monday 18 December 2006 13:29, David L Goldsmith wrote: >> Simson Garfinkel wrote: >>> It really depends on your audience as to whether or not 1,000,000 >>> through 9,000,000 is be

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Usability with matplotlib

2006-12-18 Thread Pierre GM
On Monday 18 December 2006 13:29, David L Goldsmith wrote: > Simson Garfinkel wrote: > > It really depends on your audience as to whether or not 1,000,000 > > through 9,000,000 is better displayed in scientific notation or not. > > For audiences that I frequently present to, any scientific notation

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Usability with matplotlib

2006-12-18 Thread David L Goldsmith
Simson Garfinkel wrote: > Well, I come from the United States, where we basically ignore > international standards and let the rest of the world do what it > wants. Except when it annoys us. > Insert wink or smiley face here to signify irony, yes? > However, there is something called an inte

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Calling matplotlib from C++ ?

2006-12-18 Thread Christopher Barker
yardbird wrote: > On Saturday 16 December 2006 19:42, Xavier Gnata wrote: >> Each time I'm working on C++ codes using vector or valarray, I would >> like to be able to plot them. > you should really check out the Boost::Python libraries. They allow you, > among > other things, to expose your C+

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Usability with matplotlib

2006-12-18 Thread David L Goldsmith
Simson Garfinkel wrote: > It really depends on your audience as to whether or not 1,000,000 > through 9,000,000 is better displayed in scientific notation or not. > For audiences that I frequently present to, any scientific notation > is just unacceptable. You can add quantifiers (like KBps,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Usability with matplotlib

2006-12-18 Thread David L Goldsmith
I wonder: how hard would it be to add some intelligence to the interpreter and/or exception handler such that if the manner of (mis)use of one of these implied that what the programmer meant was the other, then the error message would say something like "Perhaps you meant to use axis (or axes,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Usability with matplotlib

2006-12-18 Thread Simson Garfinkel
Well, I come from the United States, where we basically ignore international standards and let the rest of the world do what it wants. Except when it annoys us. However, there is something called an internationalization which tells clever programmers who use it what to use as a digits separa

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Usability with matplotlib

2006-12-18 Thread Darren Dale
On Sunday 17 December 2006 20:06, Eric Firing wrote: > John Hunter wrote: > [...] > > > Simson> To answer Eric's most recent posting: > > > > Simson> 1. I think that scientific notation should not be the > > Simson> default, unless numbers exceed 1E+7. > > > > I agree with this -- scien

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Usability with matplotlib

2006-12-18 Thread John Travers
On 18/12/06, Simson Garfinkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It really depends on your audience as to whether or not 1,000,000 > through 9,000,000 is better displayed in scientific notation or not. > For audiences that I frequently present to, any scientific notation > is just unacceptable. You can a

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Calling matplotlib from C++ ?

2006-12-18 Thread yardbird
On Saturday 16 December 2006 19:42, Xavier Gnata wrote: > Hi, > > Each time I'm working on C++ codes using vector or valarray, I would > like to be able to plot them. > The problem is that there is no straitforward way to do that in C++. > My goal is not to code a QT or GTK application but only to

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Usability with matplotlib

2006-12-18 Thread Simson Garfinkel
It really depends on your audience as to whether or not 1,000,000 through 9,000,000 is better displayed in scientific notation or not. For audiences that I frequently present to, any scientific notation is just unacceptable. You can add quantifiers (like KBps, MBps, GBps), but presenting so

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Usability with matplotlib

2006-12-18 Thread Darren Dale
On Saturday 16 December 2006 20:00, Simson Garfinkel wrote: > 1. I think that scientific notation should not be the default, unless > numbers exceed 1E+7. There are good reasons to use scientific notation for smaller numbers than 10e+-7: We dont want neighboring tick labels to run into each other