[Matplotlib-users] how do I specify the line join and cap style?

Is it possible to control the join and cap styles of lines and patches? Is there an example for this? I'm trying to add a scale marker to a plot, but lines have rounded ends by default, so I'm currently changing these manually in Inkscape to miter join and butt cap. Here is a minimal example, based

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Taylor diagram

Hi, thanks to Juan for the Rpy package suggestion I came up with this, which at least produces the plot. I can't quite work out R specific bits at the moment (e.g. legend), but perhaps it might help someone else. #!/usr/bin/env python import sys from rpy2.robjects.packages import importr impor

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Taylor diagram

Hi thanks for the link thats interesting though I would perhaps rather not learn a new set of commands just for one plot. Though it seems from my searching that this might be the only route! cheers, Martin Arthur M. Greene wrote: > > On 12/09/2010 05:42 PM, mdekauwe wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Has

[Matplotlib-users] using plot(single_object)

I was wondering if there is an easy way to combine two vectors (x and y) into a single object to be ploted with the plot() method in matplotlib. Untill now, I did something like: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt x = np.nplinspace(0,5,1000) y = np.ones_like(x) plt.plot(x,y) # need an object here

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Memory leak; user error or bug?

I've boiled it down to nearly nothing as a script attached to this bug report: it simply creates an Axis and then regularly shifts the x axis limits and calls canvas.draw() to display the change. (It also reports

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Memory leak; user error or bug?

2010/12/12 Russell Owen : > Simply creating a blank Axes and calling canvas.draw() leaks memory -- even > without displaying any data or shifting the x axes. Okay, as a workaround have you tried ax.clear()? So the example script provided by you can be boiled down further? I'm using ax.clear() i