Re: [Matplotlib-users] downloadable docs?

2010-04-01 Thread Stuart McGraw
On 04/01/2010 08:09 PM, Gökhan Sever wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Stuart McGraw > wrote: > > I live in a third world part of the US where internet > access is via modem so reading the matplotlib docs via > the internet very painful. A full aftern

Re: [Matplotlib-users] downloadable docs?

2010-04-01 Thread Gökhan Sever
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Stuart McGraw wrote: > I live in a third world part of the US where internet > access is via modem so reading the matplotlib docs via > the internet very painful. A full afternoon trying to > build the docs was unsuccessful. > > Is there anyplace where I can downl

Re: [Matplotlib-users] speed up imports?

2010-04-01 Thread Gökhan Sever
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:57 PM, C M wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Eric Firing wrote: > > Andrew Kelly wrote: > >> Has anyone had any success in speeding up the mpl imports? > >> > >> "import matplotlib.pyplot as plt" > >> ( or "from matplotlib.figure import Figure") > >> > >> takes 6

Re: [Matplotlib-users] speed up imports?

2010-04-01 Thread C M
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Eric Firing wrote: > Andrew Kelly wrote: >> Has anyone had any success in speeding up the mpl imports? >> >> "import matplotlib.pyplot as plt" >> ( or "from matplotlib.figure import Figure") >> >> takes 6 full seconds to load.  That seems excessive.  Any ideas? >> >

[Matplotlib-users] downloadable docs?

2010-04-01 Thread Stuart McGraw
I live in a third world part of the US where internet access is via modem so reading the matplotlib docs via the internet very painful. A full afternoon trying to build the docs was unsuccessful. Is there anyplace where I can download pre-built HTML of all the docs (not just the User Manual)?

Re: [Matplotlib-users] speed up imports?

2010-04-01 Thread Andrew Kelly
Eric, I am running it on a windows 7 machine and a windows XP machine. Odd that it does this only on win32. -Andy On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Eric Firing wrote: > Andrew Kelly wrote: > >> Has anyone had any success in speeding up the mpl imports? >> >> "import matplotlib.pyplot as plt" (

Re: [Matplotlib-users] speed up imports?

2010-04-01 Thread Eric Firing
Andrew Kelly wrote: > Has anyone had any success in speeding up the mpl imports? > > "import matplotlib.pyplot as plt" > ( or "from matplotlib.figure import Figure") > > takes 6 full seconds to load. That seems excessive. Any ideas? > > -Andy Andy, A couple replies came back directly to me

[Matplotlib-users] EPS files with LaTeX are invalid

2010-04-01 Thread Thomas Robitaille
Hello, I upgraded to the latest svn version of matplotlib today, and found that eps files produced with the system latex now seem to be invalid. For example, if I run the following script import matplotlib matplotlib.use('Agg') import matplotlib.pyplot as mpl mpl.rc('text', usetex=False) fig

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Cmap creation

2010-04-01 Thread Chloe Lewis
The example works for me; Python 2.6.4 (recent Enthought install). Can you use your new colormap without registering it? &C On Apr 1, 2010, at 1 Apr, 2:14 PM, Bruce Ford wrote: > I'm running into walls trying to create a custom cmap. > > Running the example custom_cmap.py unchanged, I get : > >

Re: [Matplotlib-users] speed up imports?

2010-04-01 Thread Eric Firing
Andrew Kelly wrote: > Has anyone had any success in speeding up the mpl imports? > > "import matplotlib.pyplot as plt" > ( or "from matplotlib.figure import Figure") > > takes 6 full seconds to load. That seems excessive. Any ideas? Unless you have a very old machine, it sounds like something

Re: [Matplotlib-users] speed up imports?

2010-04-01 Thread Friedrich Romstedt
Hmm, I wrote one time a lazy-import module, you create objects and use their attributes, but the object imports the module not earlier than the first attribute access. Thus these objects are used like the module via "import module". I.e., module = Lazy('matplotlib.module'). There are also wrappe

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Cmap creation

2010-04-01 Thread Friedrich Romstedt
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[Matplotlib-users] speed up imports?

2010-04-01 Thread Andrew Kelly
Has anyone had any success in speeding up the mpl imports? "import matplotlib.pyplot as plt" ( or "from matplotlib.figure import Figure") takes 6 full seconds to load. That seems excessive. Any ideas? -Andy -- Download

[Matplotlib-users] Cmap creation

2010-04-01 Thread Bruce Ford
I'm running into walls trying to create a custom cmap. Running the example custom_cmap.py unchanged, I get : AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'register_cmap' args = ("'module' object has no attribute 'register_cmap'",) I've included custom_cmap.py below. It's a major short

Re: [Matplotlib-users] a quick way to plot 3D surface with point coordination?

2010-04-01 Thread Friedrich Romstedt
2010/4/1 ericyosho : > And we know that for points with coordination, scatter must be the > simplest way to visualize them. > Is there any trick to convert a scatter graph into a surface picture directly? I'm afraid not, because one needs an algorithm to infer the connectivity :-( Friedrich

Re: [Matplotlib-users] manual placement of a colorbar

2010-04-01 Thread Mathew Yeates
Thanks a bunch JJ. I've been trying to figure that one out all day! Mathew On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Jae-Joon Lee wrote: > If you're not afraid of contaminating your code with axes_grid toolkit, > > instead > > cax = fig.add_axes([0.9, 0.1, 0.1, 0.8]) # setup colorbar axes. > > try > > fr

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to save file in to image in desired resolution in matplotlib?

2010-04-01 Thread Friedrich Romstedt
The list config got me, so to the list too ... 2010/3/31 Matthias Michler : > On Wednesday 31 March 2010 09:24:10 yogesh karpate wrote: >> Dear All, >>I am using one image of 235X130 and plotting the curve on >> it, now when i save it it goes in the resoltuion of 800X600, >> I wa

Re: [Matplotlib-users] manual placement of a colorbar

2010-04-01 Thread Jae-Joon Lee
If you're not afraid of contaminating your code with axes_grid toolkit, instead cax = fig.add_axes([0.9, 0.1, 0.1, 0.8]) # setup colorbar axes. try from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid import make_axes_locatable import matplotlib.axes as maxes divider = make_axes_locatable(ax) cax = divider.new_horizo

Re: [Matplotlib-users] manual placement of a colorbar

2010-04-01 Thread Mathew Yeates
This doesn't work for what I'm doing. Unless I call "contour" or something similar, this will fail. I am only using m.plot and this doesn't set things up properly to call "colorbar". On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Jeff Whitaker wrote: > On 4/1/10 1:24 PM, Mathew Yeates wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I

Re: [Matplotlib-users] manual placement of a colorbar

2010-04-01 Thread Jeff Whitaker
On 4/1/10 1:24 PM, Mathew Yeates wrote: > Hi > > I have a Basemap and I want to manually add a colorbar to the side. As > you can see in the attached image, the colorbar is not correctly > positioned. > > Here is a snippet of code > > ax=fig.add_axes([0.1,0.1,0.8,.8]) > m = Basemap(resolution='c'

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Changing the font

2010-04-01 Thread Alex S
Hi, sorry I wasn't too clear... I changed that, but I don't seem to be able to choose between the different serif fonts, it just always gives me the default... Alex S wrote: > > Hi there, > I'm trying to change the font default on my graph to New Century > Schoolbook. I'm trying to do this by

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Animated quiver

2010-04-01 Thread Eric Firing
Fiocco Davide wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm trying to plot a 2D vector field. It's a function of time so I would like > to display an animation. > For single frames I used quiver and I'm happy with it... is there any way to > update a quiver with time? > If the vectors will always be at the same

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to overlay an image on a multi plot?

2010-04-01 Thread Alan G Isaac
On 4/1/2010 1:26 PM, Josh Hemann wrote: > What I would like to do is overlay some > http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR sparklines > so in one visualization I can see > - The correlation between two variables > - The marginal densities of the variables >

[Matplotlib-users] Animated quiver

2010-04-01 Thread Fiocco Davide
Dear all, I'm trying to plot a 2D vector field. It's a function of time so I would like to display an animation. For single frames I used quiver and I'm happy with it... is there any way to update a quiver with time? I tried something close to what I found on http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matp

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problems with Matplotlib and Python 2.6 - SOLVED

2010-04-01 Thread Mauro Cavalcanti
Dear ALL, I finally solved the problems with displying graphics in Matplotib with Python 2.6 under Ubuntu Jaunty. It just turned out that, when upgrading from Intrepid to Jaunty, several required development packages were removed from the system. I just discovered that when trying to build and in

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Changing the font

2010-04-01 Thread Jeff Klukas
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Alex S wrote: > > Hi there, > I'm trying to change the font default on my graph to New Century Schoolbook. > I'm trying to do this by editing the matplotlibrc file.  Unfortunately, > although I'm able to change the font.family, I can't figure out how to make > it u

[Matplotlib-users] Changing the font

2010-04-01 Thread Alex S
Hi there, I'm trying to change the font default on my graph to New Century Schoolbook. I'm trying to do this by editing the matplotlibrc file. Unfortunately, although I'm able to change the font.family, I can't figure out how to make it use something other than the default in the family... I tr

[Matplotlib-users] How to overlay an image on a multi plot?

2010-04-01 Thread Josh Hemann
Hi All, I used the http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/scatter_hist.html scatter_hist example from the Gallery to create the following visualization: http://old.nabble.com/file/p28111498/Full5%252B8%252B2_vs_Bulk1%252B2.png What I would like to do is overlay some http

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problems with Matplotlib and Python 2.6

2010-04-01 Thread Scott Sinclair
>On 1 April 2010 13:53, Mauro Cavalcanti wrote: > Python 2.6.2 (release26-maint, Apr 19 2009, 01:56:41) > [GCC 4.3.3] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. from pylab import randn, hist x = randn(1) hist(x, 100) > > Instead of a nice

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problems with Matplotlib and Python 2.6

2010-04-01 Thread Sandro Tosi
> I will check the matplotlibrc, but why should the Agg default backend not > work? Because 'Agg' is a "file-based" backend, that you use when you want to generate a file as output (a PNG, f.e.), so savefig() works while show() not. You are looking for a GUI backend, something like TkAgg, GTKAgg

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problems with Matplotlib and Python 2.6

2010-04-01 Thread Mauro Cavalcanti
Dears Sandro & Darren, First of all, thank you *very much* for the fast reply! Let's see... I have the same problem (no graphics display) with either Python and IPython. BTW, in previous versions of Python which I'v used (2.3, 2.4, and 2.5) Matplotlib graphic backends always worked quite well. I

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problems with Matplotlib and Python 2.6

2010-04-01 Thread Darren Dale
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Mauro Cavalcanti wrote: > Dear ALL, > > Long time no see Well, I have recently upgraded from Ubuntu > Intrepid to Jaunty (sure, I know that I'm a couple of versions > delayed, but keeping a working system stable is essential). I did not > a fresh install of Ubun

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problems with Matplotlib and Python 2.6

2010-04-01 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 13:53, Mauro Cavalcanti wrote: > Dear ALL, > > Long time no see Well, I have recently upgraded from Ubuntu > Intrepid to Jaunty (sure, I know that I'm a couple of versions > delayed, but keeping a working system stable is essential). I did not > a fresh install of Ubuntu

[Matplotlib-users] Problems with Matplotlib and Python 2.6

2010-04-01 Thread Mauro Cavalcanti
Dear ALL, Long time no see Well, I have recently upgraded from Ubuntu Intrepid to Jaunty (sure, I know that I'm a couple of versions delayed, but keeping a working system stable is essential). I did not a fresh install of Ubuntu, just upgraded using the system's facility for that. Previously I

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Change axis's scale

2010-04-01 Thread Matthias Michler
On Thursday 01 April 2010 12:27:59 timothee cezard wrote: > Hi all, > I have several graph to create and the position on the x axis can vary > quite a lot. > Most of the time I'm quite happy with the default behavior but when my x > values are very high matplotlib automatically change the ticks and

[Matplotlib-users] Change axis's scale

2010-04-01 Thread timothee cezard
Hi all, I have several graph to create and the position on the x axis can vary quite a lot. Most of the time I'm quite happy with the default behavior but when my x values are very high matplotlib automatically change the ticks and set a scale on the axis (see screenshot)

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to remove white space

2010-04-01 Thread Matthias Michler
On Thursday 01 April 2010 09:41:06 yogesh karpate wrote: > Dear All, >I have one .png image of 940X780 and i am plotting waveforms > on it. When I save this plot as .png , matp[lotlib gives image in > 800X600 that too with white space. I dont want to keep the white space and > i wan

[Matplotlib-users] How to remove white space

2010-04-01 Thread yogesh karpate
Dear All, I have one .png image of 940X780 and i am plotting waveforms on it. When I save this plot as .png , matp[lotlib gives image in 800X600 that too with white space. I dont want to keep the white space and i want the same resolution as original image.How should I go ahead? Than