Re: [Matplotlib-users] installing basemap

2012-04-01 Thread Jeff Whitaker
On 3/31/12 5:48 AM, David Craig wrote: Hi, I previously installed basemap by using the yum command. This installed version 0.99.4. I want to install the latest version so I can use shaded relief etc. This may be more of a linux problem but as I am more familiar with python than linux I thought

Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to set contourf plot colorbar narrow?

2012-04-01 Thread Eric Firing
On 03/29/2012 06:29 AM, Chao YUE wrote: > Dear all, > > I make a contourf plot but I think the colorbar is too wide. Can I make > it narrower (slimmer)? > Yes, you can use the aspect kwarg. The default is 20. Try cbar = plt.colorbar(aspect=40) http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/figure_api.h

Re: [Matplotlib-users] assigning a plot object to a figure

2012-04-01 Thread Eric Firing
On 03/30/2012 01:23 PM, Emmanuel Mayssat wrote: > Hello all, > > I can create a figure > and get the corresponding axes/plots > > for examples: > 1/ > fig = Figure(figsize=(width, height), dpi=dpi) > ax = gif.add_subplot(111) > > 2/ > fig, ax = plt.subplots() > > but I would like to create my plot

Re: [Matplotlib-users] abline plot?

2012-04-01 Thread Skipper Seabold
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Skipper Seabold wrote: > Hi, > > I wrote an abline_plot function, and I'm curious if what I'm doing is the > best way to go about this. I tried unsuccessfully to get the transforms to > do what I want, but I'm not sure if it's possible. What I came up with is > to

[Matplotlib-users] abline plot?

2012-04-01 Thread Skipper Seabold
Hi, I wrote an abline_plot function, and I'm curious if what I'm doing is the best way to go about this. I tried unsuccessfully to get the transforms to do what I want, but I'm not sure if it's possible. What I came up with is to use callbacks to draw an "infinite" line. It works, but it seems a b

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Subplot array and colorbar

2012-04-01 Thread Eric Firing
On 03/31/2012 07:26 AM, Marston wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to create a plot, with subplots where each row of x plots > have a common colorbar beneath it. Only the the top row will have > titles. I've tried creating a function to do this but I only achieve > partial success. Here is an image created in

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Copying a figure instance?

2012-04-01 Thread Joseph Meiring
Thanks Tony, I think this will work! Cheers, Joe On Mar 31, 2012, at 11:33 AM, Tony Yu wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 12:25 PM, eoj wrote: > > Basically the problem is like this. I have a relatively expensive (time wise) > figure to create, specifically a map with lots of detail in it

[Matplotlib-users] trouble with pcolor

2012-04-01 Thread David Craig
Hi, I am trying to use pcolor to visualise three variables. For example if I have a value for z at x and a value for z at y something like [x1, x2, x3] = [z1, z2, z3] and [y1, y2, y3] = [z2, z1, z3]. Then I use meshgrid to create the grid for x and y, X, Y = meshgrid(x, y) the result is two array's

Re: [Matplotlib-users] bar plot (autofmt_xdate and left-right margins )

2012-04-01 Thread Massimo Di Stefano
i modified the code as follow : def bar_plot(data, Yval, datamin=None, datamax=None): """ doc """ x = data[0] y = data[1] # reduce dataset based on min max date if datamin != datamax != None : x = data[0][np.where((data[0]>=datamin) & (data[0]<=datamax))[0]] y