Re: [Matplotlib-users] Install problem on Leopard

2008-03-21 Thread Andrew Charles
Yes it was the matplotlib-0.91.2-py2.5-macosx-10.3-fat.egg I tried to install. I've posted the entire easy_install output below. I'll let the list know if i resolve the problem. Andrew --- Processing matplotlib-0.91.2-py2.5-macosx-10.3-fat.egg crea

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting in C++

2008-03-21 Thread Simson Garfinkel
Dear Francesco, I'm sorry --- it is hard not to read your message and laugh. You really think that the static type checking of C++ is protecting you? Well, it may be, but C++ is unsafe in so many other ways that you are not doing yourself a favor by working in it. If you want to use a types

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [newbie] "live" plots of multiple lines

2008-03-21 Thread Chris Withers
Hey Matthias, Matthias Michler wrote: > maybe something like the following helps you: > - > from pylab import * > from time import sleep > > ion() # interactive mode 'on' > figure() > ax =

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib threadsafe?

2008-03-21 Thread John Hunter
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Out of interest, how does one tell MPL to "start a new figure and forget > > everything that's gone before"? > > You can minimize the amount of package and module-level state > information by using the oo interface: s

Re: [Matplotlib-users] question #2 - labeled bar graphs

2008-03-21 Thread John Hunter
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Simson Garfinkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there an easy way to label bars with the value of the bar at that > point? I am doing log bars and it would be nice to have them labeled. > > I guess I can do this manually using text() and the values returned by >

[Matplotlib-users] Problem with matplotlib and pdflatex

2008-03-21 Thread Alex Coventry
I'm trying to use some matplotlib-generated pdfs in a pdflatex document, and seeing some extremely weird and disruptive size effects. The resulting pdfs can be seen at http://research.janelia.org/coventry/paper.pdf http://research.janelia.org/coventry/paper-small.pdf The first results from the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] PNG filesize

2008-03-21 Thread Eric Firing
Einar M. Einarsson wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to find ways to make the file-size of my PNG images smaller. > > When I generate my 660*440px image I get a big 168kb file. > (8bit RGB color model, has an alpha channel (need that) but no > interlacing scheme) > > Here it is: > http://metphys.

[Matplotlib-users] question #2 - labeled bar graphs

2008-03-21 Thread Simson Garfinkel
Is there an easy way to label bars with the value of the bar at that point? I am doing log bars and it would be nice to have them labeled. I guess I can do this manually using text() and the values returned by bar(); is there an automatic way to do it? Thanks! --

[Matplotlib-users] update: BUG - axes problem update

2008-03-21 Thread Simson Garfinkel
1. Moving to matplotlib-0.91.2 solved the problem with PDF generation on log axes. 2. Installing matplotlib-0.91.2 on Linux required installing these packages first: * freetype-devel * libpng-devel (Those packages were NOT installed automatically by easy_install) --

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting in C++

2008-03-21 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Sat, 01 Mar 2008, Francesco Biscani apparently wrote: > I'm currently working mostly in C++ and exploring > integration with Python through Boost.Python+IPython+MPL. > I enjoy working in Python, but I'm afraid of making a more > consistent switch mainly for fear of losing the static > type c

Re: [Matplotlib-users] compiling from svn on windows

2008-03-21 Thread John Hunter
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Charlie Moad does the Windows releases. I don't know what compiler he uses. > > It would be nice if some people who have successfully built on Windows > could collectively assemble a step-by-step account of how to go fro

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Vary point color with scatter

2008-03-21 Thread John Hunter
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 3:23 AM, Michaël Douchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the good way to do what I reach for ? > I have much trouble to know how to define the c parameter of scatter. I > saw the "arrange" thing somewhere in internet, but don't understand what > it is for. Have y

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Color schemes for XY plots?

2008-03-21 Thread John Hunter
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Kenneth Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So i've experimented with pcolor, and it's not really what I'm looking > for. What I'm attempting to do is plot some XY coordinates, just a > simple function, with the line being colored differently depending on > th

Re: [Matplotlib-users] 'from matplotlib.cbook import is_scalar, dedent' ImportError: cannot import name dedent

2008-03-21 Thread John Hunter
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 3:25 AM, pmarsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello List, > > I am using python-matplotlib version 0.87.7-0.3ubuntu1(feisty) and > having some problems with a script that uses it. I get this import error > and am not sure how to debug it further, any assistance would be gr

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How do I change the font size for the default coordinates?

2008-03-21 Thread John Hunter
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 7:32 PM, carlwenrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've searched the user manual (and this forum) but I don't see anything that > helps. Assuming you mean what we call the tick labels: import matplotlib matplotlib.rcParams['xtick.labelsize'] = 14 matplotlib.rcParams['y

[Matplotlib-users] Color schemes for XY plots?

2008-03-21 Thread Kenneth Miller
All, A quick question So i've experimented with pcolor, and it's not really what I'm looking for. What I'm attempting to do is plot some XY coordinates, just a simple function, with the line being colored differently depending on the value of that function. So if perhaps you were plotti

Re: [Matplotlib-users] BUG: Log axes are upside down with PDF output...

2008-03-21 Thread Simson Garfinkel
On Mar 21, 2008, at 6:12 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > I vaguely recall a bug whereby mathtext on PDF was upside down > (because the direction of the y-axis was not being inverted)... but > I can't find the bug report. > > It does seem to work in 0.90.1 and 0.91.2 (on Linux at least). Are

Re: [Matplotlib-users] PNG filesize

2008-03-21 Thread Ted Drain
I'd guess PNG won't get much smaller because you have a lot of different colored pixels. PNG compresses most when you have a sparser plot. I'd suggest that you try using JPG. It will compress the multi-colored portion of your plot way down. You may see a few artifacts if you look carefully at t

[Matplotlib-users] How do I change the font size for the default coordinates?

2008-03-21 Thread carlwenrich
I've searched the user manual (and this forum) but I don't see anything that helps. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-do-I-change-the-font-size-for-the-default-coordinates--tp16191876p16191876.html Sent from the matplotlib - users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Compiler error on OS X 10.5.2 in agg

2008-03-21 Thread Andrew Jaffe
Hi All, Zachary Pincus wrote: >> Can you tell me where you specified the -Os option to gcc to escape >> the problem? > > So the compile that command that failed is printed right above the > error message it generated. (The long line that starts with > 'gcc' ...). I just copied this comm

[Matplotlib-users] issues with yahoo historical data & candlestick drawing in finance.py

2008-03-21 Thread Michael Redman
Hi all, I apologize in advance if these issues have already been addressed. I did a search of the mailing lists and did not find them discussed but I may have missed them. I had some trouble getting the historical quotes data from yahoo to work, apparently because yahoo changed the format of the

[Matplotlib-users] PNG filesize

2008-03-21 Thread Einar M. Einarsson
Hi all, I'm trying to find ways to make the file-size of my PNG images smaller. When I generate my 660*440px image I get a big 168kb file. (8bit RGB color model, has an alpha channel (need that) but no interlacing scheme) Here it is: http://metphys.org/eme/T05.png I'm using the savefig method

[Matplotlib-users] 3d filled triangle (polygon)

2008-03-21 Thread Ulrich Dorda
Hi , I am trying to plot a filled triangle (or if possible any filled polygon) in 3D. I am afraid, I am missing something very basic here. I'd like to do something like: x=[0,1,1] #coordintes of the three corners y=[0,0,1] z=[3,8,1] ax.plane(x,y,z,facecolor='r') So far I tried the "plot_surfac

[Matplotlib-users] I really need help about installing matplotlib.

2008-03-21 Thread lovegf86
Please Help me. I am a beginner in programming. Due to my research, I should know how to make graph using python and matplotlib. I went to matplotlib website and downloaded and installed "enthought python" Enthought python is a package that include numpy, wxPython GUI toolkit and SciPy. I insta

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting in C++

2008-03-21 Thread Francesco Biscani
Hi all, Christopher Barker wrote: > "The only difference that my users see between an app written in Python > and C++ is that the Python one has more features...and fewer bugs." > I'm currently working mostly in C++ and exploring integration with Python through Boost.Python+IPython+MPL. I en

[Matplotlib-users] problem with agg

2008-03-21 Thread Luis Carlos Garelli
Greetings... I am working using the matplotlib version 0.90.1, and i am having some strange problems with my application. When i execute in some pcs, there is no problem at all, but in others pcs, i receive this message: File "pylab.pyc", line 1 in ? File "matplotlib\pylab.pyc", line 203 in ? Fil

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Scatterplot problem

2008-03-21 Thread Sean Hammond
Okay I've learnt a bit more about this: http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/6467/scatterplot5st6.png I need to explicitly make a new figure as well as a new axis, and put the rc calls before the figure calls, rc changes only seem to take effect on figures created afterwards. Also I was stupidly us

[Matplotlib-users] Vary point color with scatter

2008-03-21 Thread Michaël Douchin
Hi list, I have a set of data with 3 "columns" : x = x coordinate of the point y = y coordinate z = temperature I can't see how to set a different color for each point function of temperature value. I have tried, which draw a colorfull beautiful "map", the color varying with the row rank of x

[Matplotlib-users] 'from matplotlib.cbook import is_scalar, dedent' ImportError: cannot import name dedent

2008-03-21 Thread pmarsh
Hello List, I am using python-matplotlib version 0.87.7-0.3ubuntu1(feisty) and having some problems with a script that uses it. I get this import error and am not sure how to debug it further, any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Best regards, Paul marsh ---

Re: [Matplotlib-users] from pylab import nx?

2008-03-21 Thread Michael Droettboom
Chris Withers wrote: > Michael Droettboom wrote: >> The "backend_driver.py" example runs a number of other examples using >> a number of different backends. That's been a reasonably successful >> set of regression and coverage tests. It's not perfect, but it's a >> start. There are also some

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting dates on the Y axis?

2008-03-21 Thread Chris Withers
Kenneth Miller wrote: > > back in time. When i pass plot_dates timestamps for the y axis, and > integers for the x axis it simply displays the y-axis as floats. did you try: plot_dates(x,dates,ydate=True) ? Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - htt

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting dates on the Y axis?

2008-03-21 Thread Kenneth Miller
On Mar 21, 2008, at 11:56 AM, Chris Withers wrote: > Kenneth Miller wrote: >> Is it possible to plot dates on the Y-axis? I'd like to have >> dates on the y axis descending or ascending versus my values on the >> x - axis. Is it possible to do this or simply switch the axis? > > Not su

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting dates on the Y axis?

2008-03-21 Thread John Hunter
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Kenneth Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > Is it possible to plot dates on the Y-axis? I'd like to have > dates on the y axis descending or ascending versus my values on the x > - axis. Is it possible to do this or simply switch the axis? Not a p

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Install problem on Leopard

2008-03-21 Thread Christopher Barker
Andrew Charles wrote: > Looking back over the easy_install output it looks as if it does > download another tarball and try to build it. I read another thread > where this was happening to someone else. What did you try to install? was it this: matplotlib-0.91.2-py2.5-macosx-10.3-fat.egg which I

Re: [Matplotlib-users] from pylab import nx?

2008-03-21 Thread Chris Withers
Michael Droettboom wrote: > The "backend_driver.py" example runs a number of other examples using a > number of different backends. That's been a reasonably successful set > of regression and coverage tests. It's not perfect, but it's a start. > There are also some lower-level unit tests for

Re: [Matplotlib-users] plotting filled lines with missing data?

2008-03-21 Thread Chris Withers
Pierre GM wrote: > Your data is indexed in time, right ? Your x-axis is a date object ? Then use > scikits.timeseries > http://scipy.org/scipy/scikits/wiki/TimeSeries I'm not sure what this is giving me. The dates are all python datetimes in a list already. The missing values started off as '', I

Re: [Matplotlib-users] compiling from svn on windows

2008-03-21 Thread Christopher Barker
Eric Firing wrote: > It would be nice if some people who have successfully built on Windows > could collectively assemble a step-by-step account of how to go from a > bare Win box to a working mpl (preferably compiled with mingw); but > maybe this would take more effort than it is worth. I don'

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting dates on the Y axis?

2008-03-21 Thread Chris Withers
Kenneth Miller wrote: > Is it possible to plot dates on the Y-axis? I'd like to have > dates on the y axis descending or ascending versus my values on the x > - axis. Is it possible to do this or simply switch the axis? Not sure what you mean, have you just tried it with plot or plot_dat

[Matplotlib-users] Plotting dates on the Y axis?

2008-03-21 Thread Kenneth Miller
All, Is it possible to plot dates on the Y-axis? I'd like to have dates on the y axis descending or ascending versus my values on the x - axis. Is it possible to do this or simply switch the axis? Thanks! Regards, Ken -

Re: [Matplotlib-users] compiling from svn on windows

2008-03-21 Thread Wayne E. Harlan
Chris: I have used cygwin to compile numpy and scipy svn versions for win XP on my old athlon system. I believe the scipy site has some detailed instructions. However, I have done a lot of compiling on my linux system and so that part was easy (configure, make, make install, etc) I don't kn

Re: [Matplotlib-users] BUG: Log axes are upside down with PDF output...

2008-03-21 Thread Michael Droettboom
I vaguely recall a bug whereby mathtext on PDF was upside down (because the direction of the y-axis was not being inverted)... but I can't find the bug report. It does seem to work in 0.90.1 and 0.91.2 (on Linux at least). Are you able to upgrade? Cheers, Mike Simson Garfinkel wrote: > Hi. I

Re: [Matplotlib-users] compiling from svn on windows

2008-03-21 Thread Michael Droettboom
Chris Withers wrote: > Michael Droettboom wrote: >>> That's cool'n'all, but when is svn going to make it into a Windows >>> binary release? ;-) >>> >> I suspect your question is somewhat rhetorical, but... it will >> probably be a while ;) > > Why is that? Who cranks out the binary releases

Re: [Matplotlib-users] from pylab import nx?

2008-03-21 Thread Michael Droettboom
Chris Withers wrote: > Eric Firing wrote: > >> If you are referring to scripts in the matplotlib/examples/ subdirectory >> then you must have a version in which some of those scripts had not been >> brought up to date with the rest of matplotlib. >> > > You should turn them into unit tes

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Install problem on Leopard

2008-03-21 Thread Andrew Charles
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Christopher Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Compiling Matplotlib from source, or easy_installing the egg > > > >>From the egg: > > ld: in /sw/lib/libJPEG.dylib, file is not of required architecture for > > hmm -- odd, I wouldn't think the egg should be lin

Re: [Matplotlib-users] compiling from svn on windows

2008-03-21 Thread Eric Firing
Chris Withers wrote: > Michael Droettboom wrote: >>> That's cool'n'all, but when is svn going to make it into a Windows >>> binary release? ;-) >>> >> I suspect your question is somewhat rhetorical, but... it will >> probably be a while ;) > > Why is that? Who cranks out the binary releases