[Matplotlib-users] Inset plot with a previously draw plot

2015-10-29 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
Hi, I have a previously draw plot that I want to place as an inset in another figure. I've tried with passing the previously drawn axes as the `axes` parameter to the `add_axes` method of the figure, and also tried using the `set_axes` method of the new axes, without success: I get the new inset a

[Matplotlib-users] "Sorry, could not import Basemap" in http://matplotlib.org/users/screenshots.html

2013-01-15 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
Hi: I just want to report that in the screenshots section of the website (http://matplotlib.org/users/screenshots.html), in the Basemap demo (http://matplotlib.org/users/screenshots.html#basemap-demo) section, instead of the plot there is a message saying "Sorry, could not import Basemap". Alejan

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Clipped colorbar values in matshow

2013-01-14 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Paul Hobson wrote: > Does the call to tight_layout() fig your problem? Actually, I just realized that is not tight_layout() what fixed my problem, but using ax.matshow instead of plt.matshow. The following code produces an unclipped colorbar: A = np.random.rand(

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plot data from file while is file is constantly updated

2012-11-08 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
If you are in a Linux machine, you can use `inotify`: "Inotify (inode notify) is a Linux kernel subsystem that acts to extend filesystems to notice changes to the filesystem". It seems that there are a few option to use this from Python: http://pyinotify.sourceforge.net/ http://code.activestate.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] default backend on 1.2.0rc1 and master

2012-10-17 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:41 AM, Eric Firing wrote: > sudo apt-get build-dep python-matplotlib > > It might pull in more than you really want, but it will certainly > include gui toolkits. If you want to avoid installing all the packages that you get with the `apt-get build-dep pythoh-matplotlib`

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problem/Bug with Text rendering With LaTeX

2012-05-20 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Yang Zhang wrote: > Recently I have tried to use latex to render all the texts in a plot for > consistent look with other texts in a paper. However, it seems that all the > texts in the plot are rendered in bold font. Please see the attached code. Can you try with

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib in Latex documents

2012-04-25 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Peter Würtz wrote: > I'm having trouble when creating plots for use in latex documents. I use the following setup (under Ubuntu, in case that matters): params = {'backend': 'Agg', 'ps.usedistiller' : 'xpdf', 'text.usetex' : True, 'fo

Re: [Matplotlib-users] latex bug/feature in labels?

2012-03-16 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Will Grainger wrote: > Not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but > xlabel (and ylabel) doesn't honour the rcParams['font.size'] > parameters. I think xlabel and ylabel honor rcParams['axes.labelsize']. Alejandro. ---

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Error when saving as PDF using $\alpha$ and 'text.usetex':True

2012-03-09 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Jouni K. Seppänen wrote: > Alejandro Weinstein writes: > >> TypeError: unicode argument expected, got 'str' >> I am using MPL verion 1.2.x (built from commit 396a6446). > > That reminds me of a problem fixed in commit 680edf7

[Matplotlib-users] Error when saving as PDF using $\alpha$ and 'text.usetex':True

2012-03-06 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
Hi: I am getting an error when I save a figure as PDF with a particular configuration and when I use a greek latex leter (say $\alpha$) as a ylabel. The following code illustrates the problem. ### import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import matplotlib as mpl

Re: [Matplotlib-users] cycling mechanism

2012-01-04 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
> 2) I also have the need to implement line-style cycling for b&w > publications. What about also grey level cycling for b&w? Sometimes for b&w it looks better to use different gray levels rather than different line-styles. See this for an example: http://media.aau.dk/null_space_pursuits/2011/06

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Incorrect latex rendering for \hat{x} and \vec{x}

2011-12-15 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Peter Liebetraut wrote: > Hi > > Latex rendering looks OK here. > >> In [9]: matplotlib.__version__ >> Out[9]: '1.0.0' Just updated to the last version from github, and now works OK. --

[Matplotlib-users] Incorrect latex rendering for \hat{x} and \vec{x}

2011-12-07 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
Hi: I am getting incorrect renderings when using \hat{x} or \vec{x}. The following code # import matplotlib.pylab as plt plt.axes([0.1, 0.15, 0.8, 0.75]) plt.plot(range(10)) plt.xlabel(r'$\hat{y}$ $\vec{x}$ $x^2 + y^2$', fontsize=20) plt.show

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to switch to v1.1.0 after upgrade

2011-11-15 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Y.Wu wrote: > Hi, all > I have installed v1.1.0 from source code at : > /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/matplotlib > But whenever I am using python test.py, it still refers to the old v0.99. > could you please tell me how to update to the new version ? Here

Re: [Matplotlib-users] I get a warning when running code with ipython, but not with python

2011-11-15 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > This looks like a bug for the IPython folks.  If you make a file > containing only "import gtk" and "%run" that file, one gets the same error. It is a bug of IPython 0.11. The problem is solved in 0.12. See http://mail.scipy.org/piperm

[Matplotlib-users] I get a warning when running code with ipython, but not with python

2011-11-13 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
Hi: I just installed matplolib from source code, and Ipython using pip, in Ubuntu 11.10. When I run this code ### foo.py import matplotlib.pyplot as plt plt.plot([1,2,3,4]) plt.ylabel('some numbers') plt.show() ## in ipython, I get the following

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Upgrade from 1.0.1 to 1.1.0, not quite working

2011-11-11 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:04 PM, John Ladasky wrote: > But when I started a Python shell, imported, and then printed > matplotlib.__version__, I got 1.0.1. > > Must I explicitly uninstall the older revision somehow?  I don't know > how to do this. > Something similar happened to me a few days ag

[Matplotlib-users] No zdata in motion_notify_event when using a 3D plot

2011-11-08 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
Hi: I am trying to use the event associated to motion_notify_event in a 3D plot, and I found that the event does not have the zdata property. The following code illustrate the problem: ## from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D import matplotlib.pyplot as plt def

[Matplotlib-users] Can't render the \dagger LaTex symbol

2011-09-01 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
Hi: I am having problems with the \dagger LaTex symbol. The following code import matplotlib.pyplot as plt plt.plot([1,2,3]) plt.title(r'$ \dagger $') plt.show() produce a long Traceback that ends in File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/mathtext.py", line 1997, in raise_error rais

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Animating selected plot elements

2011-04-05 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Drew Frank wrote: > This will not address your immediate problem with update_line not > being called, but if you want to animate something over a non-blank > background you will soon run into another issue.  I posted here about > that issue a while back: > http://ww

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Animating selected plot elements

2011-04-05 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Alejandro Weinstein wrote: > Any advice on how to fix the problem? Or may be this way is obsolete, > but all the animation examples I've found so far don't consider a > fixed background. Adding import matplotlib matplotlib.use('GTKAgg

[Matplotlib-users] Animating selected plot elements

2011-04-04 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
Hi: I am trying to use this code http://tinyurl.com/44zcpfk (Scipy cookbook) to make an animation where the background is fix and only a line is updated. However, after executing the code, I only get a window with an empty plot. Some debugging shows that the update_line function is not being calle

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Stair plot

2011-02-10 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Paul Ivanov wrote: > no need for interpolation - just use plt.step: Thanks! Just what I need it. Any reason for the step function not appearing in the main Matplotlib page (http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/)? Alejandro. -

[Matplotlib-users] Stair plot

2011-02-09 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
Hi: Any suggestion for making a stair plot in Matplotlib (like the stairs function in Matlab)? The attached figure is the output of the following Matlab commands: x = 0:10; stairs(x); I guess it is a matter of using a zero-order hold interpolation rather than linear interpolation between the po

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Using legend with a stem plot

2011-01-06 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Jae-Joon Lee wrote: > I think this should be more like a feature request (rather than a > bug). Legend only support simple artists such as > lines/patches/collections. I disagree about this not being a bug. I understand that it can be difficult to implement, howeve

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Using legend with a stem plot

2011-01-06 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: >  To prevent it from getting lost, could you please > file a report on our bug tracker? Done: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3152447&group_id=80706&atid=560720 I think the right behavior should mimic what Matlab does. I add

[Matplotlib-users] Using legend with a stem plot

2010-12-17 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
Hi: I want to add a legend to a stem plot with two plots. The basic code is: ### from pylab import * x = [1,2,3,4,5] y1 = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] y2 = [5, 4, 3, 2, 1] subplot(211) plot(x, y1, 'rx-') plot(x, y2, 'bx-') legend(('a', 'b')) subplot(212) stem(x, y1, 'r') stem(x,y2,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Use a marker symbol in a text string

2010-11-24 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Gökhan Sever wrote: > As I have learnt from Michael Droettboom, you can simply use unicode > characters with a supported font set: > In my setup I prefer DejaVu-Sans. First install these fonts into your > system, then edit your matplotlibrc Thanks for the answer.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Use a marker symbol in a text string

2010-11-24 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Nicolas Bigaouette wrote: > Why not just use latex? > plt.text(0.05, 0.95, r"This is the square marker: $\Box$ Subscript: $_\Box$ > superscript: $^\Box$", fontsize=20) It produces the following error: Exception in Tkinter callback Traceback (most recent call last

[Matplotlib-users] Use a marker symbol in a text string

2010-11-23 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
Hi: I want to use the symbol corresponding to a marker in a text annotation. Something like textstr = 'This is the square marker: ?' ax.text(0.05, 0.95, textstr) Is there something I can place where the question mark is above to get the actual square (or any other of the symbols you can use as a

[Matplotlib-users] RuntimeError('main thread is not in main loop', ) after terminating a multithread program

2009-03-11 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
Hi: I have a multithread program. One of the thread is using MPL to plot some data. Everything works as expected, until the moment I terminate the program. When the main thread terminate, I start getting this message: Exception exceptions.RuntimeError: RuntimeError('main thread is not in main loo

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Bug in ubuntu intrepid

2008-12-17 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Alejandro Weinstein wrote: > Is anybody aware of the MPL bug on Ubuntu intrepid? > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/matplotlib/+bug/299381 The problem is caused by outdated *.pyc files. The solution is sudo python -c 'imp

[Matplotlib-users] Bug in ubuntu intrepid

2008-12-15 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
Hi: Is anybody aware of the MPL bug on Ubuntu intrepid? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/matplotlib/+bug/299381 Basically you get a warning when import pylab. Beside the warnings things seems to work OK. Is there a workaround for this? Regards, Alejandro.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Make markers in legend to appear only once

2008-12-01 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Manuel Metz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can use the keyword "numpoints" in the legend method: Thank you! It did the trick. Now how you conclude that from the documentation is a mystery: >From the docs: " numpoints: integer The number of points in the lege

[Matplotlib-users] Make markers in legend to appear only once

2008-12-01 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
Hi: I am plotting using markers, in a similar way than this example: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/legend_demo2.html As you can see in the example above, the markers in the legend appear twice: " 'green circle' 'green circle' oscillatory". Is it possible to make the