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

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 being a bother:

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, Sorry to ask

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)

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
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 in

[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

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