Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib figure serialization

2010-03-24 Thread Rich Krauter
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > Rich Krauter wrote: >>> >>> Rich Krauter wrote: >>> Hello, I am a relatively new user of matplotlib; thank you to the matplotlib team for this excellent package. I have a question about serializing matplotli

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib figure serialization

2010-03-24 Thread Rich Krauter
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Chris Barker wrote: > Michael Droettboom wrote: >> What is the advantage of JSON (is this specific case) over Python source >> code?  matplotlib is designed around it and it's more flexible.  Unless >> you're planning on automatically manipulating the JSON, I don't

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib figure serialization

2010-03-24 Thread Michael Droettboom
Rich Krauter wrote: >> Rich Krauter wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am a relatively new user of matplotlib; thank you to the matplotlib team >>> for this excellent package. >>> I have a question about serializing matplotlib figures. I have searched >>> for serialization options for matplotli

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib figure serialization

2010-03-24 Thread Rich Krauter
> Rich Krauter wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I am a relatively new user of matplotlib; thank you to the matplotlib team >> for this excellent package. >> I have a question about serializing matplotlib figures.  I have searched for >> serialization options for matplotlib figures but have not found muc

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib figure serialization

2010-03-24 Thread Chris Barker
Michael Droettboom wrote: > What is the advantage of JSON (is this specific case) over Python source > code? matplotlib is designed around it and it's more flexible. Unless > you're planning on automatically manipulating the JSON, I don't see why > you wouldn't just use Python source. Indeed.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib figure serialization

2010-03-24 Thread Michael Droettboom
What is the advantage of JSON (is this specific case) over Python source code? matplotlib is designed around it and it's more flexible. Unless you're planning on automatically manipulating the JSON, I don't see why you wouldn't just use Python source. Mike Rich Krauter wrote: > Hello, > > I

[Matplotlib-users] matplotlib figure serialization

2010-03-24 Thread Rich Krauter
Hello, I am a relatively new user of matplotlib; thank you to the matplotlib team for this excellent package. I have a question about serializing matplotlib figures. I have searched for serialization options for matplotlib figures but have not found much information. I am interested to hear abo