[Matplotlib-users] load signed data joins problem

2009-04-21 Thread darkside
Hi, I found a problem loading data: I have a file of signed numbers like: -1.370674456E+02-1.662854139E+02 0.0E+00 0.0E+00 0.0E+00 6.964865599E+10 8.394798002E-11 4.348192658E+03 9.455873862E+02 3.292484968E-09 The problem is that the signed numbers join so I always find

Re: [Matplotlib-users] help installing matplotlib

2009-04-21 Thread Chris Barker
John Seales wrote: > I have an intel mac running os 10.4.11. I use python 2.6 > > I am trying to install matplotlib and I can't figure it out. Can anyone > help me? It's going to be a challenge -- numpy only recently supports 2.6 -- I"d go back to 2.5 if you can. -Chris -- Christopher Barke

[Matplotlib-users] help installing matplotlib

2009-04-21 Thread John Seales
I have an intel mac running os 10.4.11. I use python 2.6 I am trying to install matplotlib and I can't figure it out. Can anyone help me? _ Windows Live™ Hotmail®:…more than just e-mail. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=

Re: [Matplotlib-users] least squares fitting of great circle to points on a sphere

2009-04-21 Thread Zane Selvans
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Charles R Harris wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Zane Selvans wrote: >> >> Does anyone out there happen to know a simple algorithm for least >> squares fitting a great circle to a given set of lat/lon points on a >> sphere?  Seems like it might not b

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Different plot settings for different circumstances

2009-04-21 Thread Klein, Bryan W.
> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:49:20 +0200 > From: Chaitanya Krishna > Subject: [Matplotlib-users] Different plot settings for different > circumstances ... > > So, is there a way to decouple the plot settings (like figure size, > axes properties, tick properties, etc) from the data being pl

Re: [Matplotlib-users] can't import pylab

2009-04-21 Thread John Seales
Anyone have any help to get pylab working? Should I reinstall? What method should I use? I'm using Mac os 10.4.11. Python is included in mac os. Matplotlib I installed from a precompiled version. I tried doing what you suggest, but it didn't work. I still can't import pylab. There's

[Matplotlib-users] PNG output and clipping

2009-04-21 Thread Thomas Robitaille
Hello, I am having a problem with imshow and PNG output. The following code can reproduce the problem: --- import matplotlib matplotlib.use('Agg') from matplotlib.pyplot import * import numpy as np image = np.random.random((100,100)) fig = figure(figsize=(4,4)) ax = fig.add_subplot(111) ax.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] savefig bug

2009-04-21 Thread Thomas Robitaille
Thanks for your quick reply! I'll be patient and wait for the fix to be made in the SVN repository, rather than trying to patch it myself. Do I need to add any information to the bug report? Best, Thomas On Apr 21, 2009, at 1:06 PM, Jae-Joon Lee wrote: > I can reproduce this bug with the c

Re: [Matplotlib-users] GSoC: TeX rendering engine

2009-04-21 Thread Alan G Isaac
Other projects than can profit if this is thought through: - docutils (e.g., the rst2mathml writer) - plasTeX (which additionally should have many good ideas to share) Alan Isaac -- Stay on top of everything new and diff

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Different plot settings for different circumstances ...

2009-04-21 Thread Tony S Yu
On Apr 21, 2009, at 1:49 PM, Chaitanya Krishna wrote: > But, anyways the point of this mail is to ask if there is a clever way > of making different plots for different circumstances. For example, > trying to make a plot for publication in a journal demands it being > made in one way while using i

Re: [Matplotlib-users] GSoC: TeX rendering engine

2009-04-21 Thread projetmbc
That's could be "cool" but this needs to have access to the size of the final picture of the formula and the location of the baseline of the text. With this, it's easy to put formulas in a web page. Christophe. > Are there already any more concrete ideas on how this will be realised > technicall

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Different plot settings for different circumstances ...

2009-04-21 Thread Alan G Isaac
On 4/21/2009 1:49 PM Chaitanya Krishna apparently wrote: > So, is there a way to decouple the plot settings (like figure size, > axes properties, tick properties, etc) from the data being plotted. If > so, can someone give some examples. http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/customizing.html h

[Matplotlib-users] Different plot settings for different circumstances ...

2009-04-21 Thread Chaitanya Krishna
Hi guys, I generally use matplotlib it extract information from raw data and use this for plotting. I wonder what most of you guys out there use it for? But, anyways the point of this mail is to ask if there is a clever way of making different plots for different circumstances. For example, tryin

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Getting arrax indices using the zoom tool

2009-04-21 Thread Gökhan SEVER
Hi Matthias, Thanks for your reply again. Unfortunately I can't read x_new or y_new after I kill the figures (nor when they are active). I don't know what exactly wrong in my configuration or IPython. I use IPython 0.10.bzr.r1163 on Fedora 10. Hopefully, I will solve the masked array riddle by re

[Matplotlib-users] GSoC: TeX rendering engine

2009-04-21 Thread Kasper Peeters
Hi all, I noticed that a Google Summer of Code project has been allocated for extraction of the TeX rendering engine of matplotlib. Excellent! Are there already any more concrete ideas on how this will be realised technically, in particular how this engine will be callable from Python programs? W

Re: [Matplotlib-users] savefig bug

2009-04-21 Thread Jae-Joon Lee
I can reproduce this bug with the current svn. It works correctly If you set dpi=72, but it seems that it would not be an option in your case. It seems to me that this is related with the change in r6847 that Michael made. http://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/matplotlib/trunk/matplotlib/

[Matplotlib-users] savefig bug

2009-04-21 Thread Thomas Robitaille
Hi, I've come across a bug with the savefig method when using the dpi= argument and saving an EPS file. If you try the following code, you will see that the frame is incomplete. Is there a way to solve this from a user point of view? --- import matplotlib matplotlib.use('Agg') from matplot

[Matplotlib-users] Tight axis after deletion of image

2009-04-21 Thread Armin Moser
Hi, i have an application showing some pseudo color plots as images using imshow. After deleting an image and calling ax.axis('tight') the limits of the axes are not updated correctly. Is this a bug, incorrect use or intended? The behavior is demonstrated in the appended script. Best regards, Arm

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Polar plotting clockwise and rotated

2009-04-21 Thread Matthias Michler
Hi Enrico, I'm afraid that this functionality is missing in matplotlib, but I'm not an expert so there is still hope that this can be easily achieved. A work around, that comes to my mind is resetting the label values using an idea from another mail on this list ( thetagrids( range(0,360,45), (

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Getting arrax indices using the zoom tool

2009-04-21 Thread Matthias Michler
Hi Gökhan, Hi list, Hi experts on masked arrays, I run the attached script (copied from your last two emails) and I can use x_new, y_new after closing the figures (where x_new and y_new are the values selected in the last selection). I don't know, what is going wrong with your script on your sy

[Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib on OS X 10.4 (was: can't import pylab)

2009-04-21 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
John Seales writes: > I'm using Mac os 10.4.11. Python is included in mac os. The error messages refer to Python 2.6: >> > ImportError: >> > dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/ft2font.so, >> > 2): Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib