[Matplotlib-users] Simple Matplotlib usage and Gnuplot

2007-08-27 Thread Matt Fago
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: f

[Matplotlib-users] Missing undocumented Matplotlib prerequisites on Windows (?)

2007-08-27 Thread Matt Fago
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

[Matplotlib-users] Consistent cross-platform plotting

2007-08-27 Thread Matt Fago
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) M