Re: [Matplotlib-users] python question from matlab user

2012-09-11 Thread Daπid
On Sunday, September 9, 2012, Eric Firing wrote: > Regarding the need to pre-allocate: yes, matlab is slicker in this > regard, and every now and then there is discussion about implementing > equivalent behavior in numpy, or in an add-on module. > Technically, you don´t have to preallocate the me

Re: [Matplotlib-users] python question from matlab user

2012-09-09 Thread Eric Firing
On 2012/09/08 5:34 PM, Jody Klymak wrote: > >> >> This is one of the big differences between python and matlab: in >> matlab, if an m-file has changed within a session, the change is >> immediately effective. The python "import" statement is very >> different. > > Gotchya, thanks. > > So, while I'm

Re: [Matplotlib-users] python question from matlab user

2012-09-08 Thread Jody Klymak
> > This is one of the big differences between python and matlab: in matlab, > if an m-file has changed within a session, the change is immediately > effective. The python "import" statement is very different. Gotchya, thanks. So, while I'm being a bother: in Matlab, I often organize data

Re: [Matplotlib-users] python question from matlab user

2012-09-08 Thread Eric Firing
On 2012/09/08 3:50 AM, Jody Klymak wrote: > Ack, OK, to answer my own question... > > Somehow ipython was caching the definition of jmkfigure, so changing the > module in the jmkfigure.py file did not actually change the version > ipython was using. Running a new version of ipython, it worked fine.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] python question from matlab user

2012-09-08 Thread Jody Klymak
Ack, OK, to answer my own question... Somehow ipython was caching the definition of jmkfigure, so changing the module in the jmkfigure.py file did not actually change the version ipython was using. Running a new version of ipython, it worked fine. Sorry for the chatter, and thanks for the poi

Re: [Matplotlib-users] python question from matlab user

2012-09-08 Thread Jody Klymak
Hi all, Thats what I thought too: I have: jmkfigure.py: === from pylab import * def jmkfigure(): rc('figure',figsize=(3+3/8,8.5/2),dpi=96) rc('font',size=9); === and test.py: = from pylab import * from jmkfigure import * jmkfigure() figure(1) plot([1,2,3]

Re: [Matplotlib-users] python question from matlab user

2012-09-08 Thread Eric Firing
On 2012/09/07 7:52 PM, Paul Tremblay wrote: > in your jmkfile.py you should have > > from pylab import * Or to be more pythonic, import only what you actually need in a given module, e.g., from matplotlib import rc Eric > > Paul > > > > On 9/8/12 12:45 AM, Jody Klymak wrote: >> Hi All, >> >

Re: [Matplotlib-users] python question from matlab user

2012-09-07 Thread Paul Tremblay
in your jmkfile.py you should have from pylab import * Paul On 9/8/12 12:45 AM, Jody Klymak wrote: Hi All, Sorry to ask a dumb python newbie question, but the problem arose while reading the matplotlib documentation, and an hour or so on the internet didnt' help, so I felt it was fair-

[Matplotlib-users] python question from matlab user

2012-09-07 Thread Jody Klymak
Hi All, Sorry to ask a dumb python newbie question, but the problem arose while reading the matplotlib documentation, and an hour or so on the internet didnt' help, so I felt it was fair-ish game to post here. In http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/customize_rc.html it