[Matplotlib-users] Why is wrapper module called "pylab" ?

2008-10-25 Thread chris
So is matplotlib the name of the low level plotting engine? And, pylab is the user-friendly wrapper? Would it be ok to call the whole system "Pylab" instead of Matplotlib then? Chris - This SF.Net email is sponsored by th

[Matplotlib-users] Saved PDFs default to 4/3 aspect ratio even if do subplots_adjust?

2008-10-25 Thread chris
I measured the displayed Matplotlib PDF on the screen and noticed it has a 4/3 (1.333...) aspect ratio by default. Is it EXACTLY 4/3? Even if I do: pylab.figure().subplots_adjust(left = EXTRA_ROOM, bottom = EXTRA_ROOM) ??? (Why doesn't the subplots_adjust comma

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-user] ANN: Python programs for epidemic modelling

2008-10-25 Thread Alan G Isaac
On 10/25/2008 6:07 PM I. Soumpasis wrote: > The programs are GPL licensed. More info on the section of copyrights > http://wiki.deductivethinking.com/wiki/Deductive_Thinking:Copyrights. > I hope it is ok, Well, that depends what you mean by "ok". Obviously, the author picks the license s/he pref

Re: [Matplotlib-users] clabel

2008-10-25 Thread Eric Firing
David Arnold wrote: > All, > > Does Matplotlib have a form of the clabel command that uses the > switch manual, as in Matlab: > > [c,h]=contour(x,y,z); > clabel(c,h,'manual') > > Which allows the user to pick the contours to label with the mouse? Yes, this was added recently by David Kaplan.

[Matplotlib-users] clabel

2008-10-25 Thread David Arnold
All, Does Matplotlib have a form of the clabel command that uses the switch manual, as in Matlab: [c,h]=contour(x,y,z); clabel(c,h,'manual') Which allows the user to pick the contours to label with the mouse? David Arnold College of the Redwoods http://msemac.redwoods.edu/~darnold/index.php

[Matplotlib-users] regression coeffiecients

2008-10-25 Thread Oz Nahum
Hello, I'm having troubles understand something about regression coefficients. If I have two vectors: x = [1.38, 1.98, 3.18, 3.56, 4.9, 6.21, 6.44, 7.47, 8.36, 8.81] y = [8.19, 17.77, 20.12, 14.55, 20.17 ,31.22 ,28.94, 34.79, 40.26, 38.99] and I would like to find out the regression coefficient

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-user] ANN: Python programs for epidemic modelling

2008-10-25 Thread I. Soumpasis
2008/10/25 Alan G Isaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 10/25/2008 4:14 PM I. Soumpasis apparently wrote: > > http://blog.deductivethinking.com/?p=29 > > This is cool. > But I do not see a license. > May I hope this is released under the new BSD license, > like the packages it depends on? > > The program

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [SciPy-user] ANN: Python programs for epidemic modelling

2008-10-25 Thread Alan G Isaac
On 10/25/2008 4:14 PM I. Soumpasis apparently wrote: > http://blog.deductivethinking.com/?p=29 This is cool. But I do not see a license. May I hope this is released under the new BSD license, like the packages it depends on? Thanks, Alan Isaac ---

[Matplotlib-users] ANN: Python programs for epidemic modelling

2008-10-25 Thread I. Soumpasis
Dear lists, DeductiveThinking.com now provides the Python programs for the book of M. Keeling & P. Rohani "Modeling Infectious Diseases in Humans and Animals", Princeton University Press, 2008. The book has on-line material which includes programs for different models in various programming langua

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problems y_label -> bar chart

2008-10-25 Thread Eric Firing
Florian Koelling wrote: > Hi Folks! > > I want to create a bar chart having 85 different Objects, each Object > owning a certain name of four letters -- I followed the examples on > the matplotlib examples page - so far so good. > > I have some problems with the y_labeling because every objec

[Matplotlib-users] Problems y_label -> bar chart

2008-10-25 Thread Florian Koelling
Hi Folks! I want to create a bar chart having 85 different Objects, each Object owning a certain name of four letters -- I followed the examples on the matplotlib examples page - so far so good. I have some problems with the y_labeling because every objects name is overlaid by it' s neighbo