Re: [Matplotlib-users] Gap when using contourf and nan's

2012-11-15 Thread Ian Thomas
On 14 November 2012 21:05, Bror Jonsson wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm trying to to show where one set of values have NaN's on the contour > plot of another set of values. I do this by creating a mask as such: > > fld = randn(4,4) > fld[:2,:2] = np.nan > mask[mask==0] = np.nan > contourf(arange(4),ar

[Matplotlib-users] numpy.power vs pylab.power

2012-11-15 Thread Will Furnass
On my machine these are rather confusingly different functions, with the latter corresponding to numpy.random.power. I appreciate that pylab imports everything from both the numpy and numpy.random modules but wouldn't it make sense if pylab.power were the oft-used power function rather than a mean

[Matplotlib-users] discrete colors from colormap for plt.plot and plt.scatter

2012-11-15 Thread Claus
Hi, I have this issue, schematically: import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt x = np.linspace(0.0, a, b) for i in range(d): y1 = f1(x, p1_i, p2_i) y2 = f2(x, p1_i, p2_i) plt.scatter(x, y1, c=color[i]) plt.plot(x, y2, '-', c=color[i] my question: how

Re: [Matplotlib-users] numpy.power vs pylab.power

2012-11-15 Thread Paul Hobson
Hey Will, As a user, all I can tell you is that pylab is there for convenience when: 1) quickly and interactively exploring some new data or 2) making the switch over from matlab or some other numerical analysis framework. In general, if you're doing some serious work -- especially work that you

Re: [Matplotlib-users] discrete colors from colormap for plt.plot and plt.scatter

2012-11-15 Thread Sterling Smith
Claus, I think you are looking for something in http://matplotlib.org/api/colors_api.html -Sterling On Nov 15, 2012, at 8:24AM, Claus wrote: > Hi, > I have this issue, schematically: > > import numpy as np > import matplotlib.pyplot as plt > > x = np.linspace(0.0, a, b) > > for i in range(d

Re: [Matplotlib-users] numpy.power vs pylab.power

2012-11-15 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Paul Hobson wrote: > Hey Will, > > As a user, all I can tell you is that pylab is there for convenience when: > 1) quickly and interactively exploring some new data > or > 2) making the switch over from matlab or some other numerical analysis > framework. > > In

Re: [Matplotlib-users] discrete colors from colormap for plt.plot and plt.scatter

2012-11-15 Thread Ryan Nelson
Claus, I agree with Sterling that the colors api page has a great deal of useful info. However, as another solution to your problem, keep in mind that the predefined colormaps contained in matplotlib.pyplot.cm return color tuples when called with a float between 0 and 1. To illustrate with an exte

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plot multiple lines

2012-11-15 Thread Ethan Gutmann
> 1. How to open excel file in python? You can read excel files with the xlrd module : http://www.python-excel.org/ However, you may want to simply read your exported CSV files. > 2. I would like to plot multiple line joining the positions of each of the > events, it is possible to do this? Ha

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plot multiple lines

2012-11-15 Thread Paul Hobson
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Boris Vladimir Comi wrote: > Hi all: > > I have begun to learn about python / matplolib / basemap and really need some > help. > > My data is in an Excel workbook in format .xls or csv(see attached): > > 1. How to open excel file in python? > > 2. I would like t

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Figure zoom crosshair color

2012-11-15 Thread Paul Ivanov
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:24 PM, David Brunell wrote: > Hello Paul, > > Thanks so much for your carefully-crafted reply. I had a hunch that it > would not be a simple matter. I'm using wxAgg for the backend. > > I ended up using a Matplotlib widget cursor like this: > cursor = Cursor(ax, usebli