[Matplotlib-users] turning off tick marks

2010-06-17 Thread Jeff Perry
can someone tell me how to turn off the tick marks on my plot? i tried this [line.set_marker('None') for line in ax.get_xticklines()] but this turns off the labels too.  i don't want to turn off the labels, just the tick marks. someone also suggested this ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(pyla

[Matplotlib-users] howto turn off colorbar frame

2010-06-17 Thread Jeff Perry
can someone tell me how to turn off the frame on the colorbar? i tried this ... cb=plt.colorbar() plt.axes(cb.ax) plt.box(on=False) ... but it has no effect thanks, jeff -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] incorrect output for math symbols

2010-06-11 Thread Jeff Perry
Clearing the font cache works too. Although, judging from the debug output, it still seems to find the fonts in the system directories. There are no fonts in the matplotlib site-packed dir: [...@psy86] 1014:$ ls /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/ example/ images/ lineprops

Re: [Matplotlib-users] incorrect output for math symbols

2010-06-11 Thread Jeff Perry
I found that setting mathtext.fontset : stix fixed the problem. Here is the debug-annoying output when mathtext.fontset is not set: ./plotlut2.py lut2.txt "figure 1a" matplotlib data path /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data loaded rc file /home/jsp/.matplotlib/matplotlibr

[Matplotlib-users] incorrect output for math symbols

2010-06-11 Thread Jeff Perry
When I run the following, I get gibberish for the math symbols: ),?," instead of alph's, beta's, ..., etc. I believe I have all the correct fonts installed: stix, computer modern. I have tex and latex installed. Any suggestions? I am running FC12. Thanks, Jeff 1 import numpy as np 2 impor