I'm elated to have found matplotlib after struggling with octave and
gnuplot.
There is one thing that I think matplotlib could improve on (or that
I cannot find)
-- quick plotting a la gnuplot:
plot "file.txt" using 1:2 with lp
For matplotlib, perhaps something like the following:
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Matplotlib on Windows installed via the latest binary for Python 2.4
(matplotlib-0.90.1.win32-py2.4.exe)
complains about not finding the Microsoft C runtime (MSVCP71.dll).
Reading the microsoft documentation about this DLL it seems that
matplotlib should be including it in the binary package
I cannot seem to get consistent plotting behavior across platforms
without using a kludgy work-around.
I have a python library that produces plots using matplotlib. A user
of this library would call several high-level functions that happen
to also produce plots, e.g.,
Metric1_compare(a,b)
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