Re: [Matplotlib-users] 3D

2009-12-07 Thread Pierre de Buyl
Hello, The Axes3D constructor accepts the keywords azim and elev to set the viewpoint of the figure. As for the title, I could not find information in the examples or the api, so I suggest to add text with the text method. This solution lacks an automatic placement for the title, however.

[Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib build/install error

2009-12-07 Thread Dali Laadhar
Hey ALL I've been trying to install matplotlib-0.99.1.1. Getting build errors : 1/ [u...@mymachine ~]$ uname -a Linux target-datalog 2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen #1 SMP Fri Feb 15 12:34:28 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 2/ Used this link to download matplotlib:

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib build/install error

2009-12-07 Thread Darren Dale
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Dali Laadhar dali.laad...@predictix.com wrote: Hey ALL I've been trying to install matplotlib-0.99.1.1. Getting build errors : 1/ [u...@mymachine ~]$ uname -a Linux target-datalog 2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen #1 SMP Fri Feb 15 12:34:28 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Sphinx and ams-latex

2009-12-07 Thread Michael Droettboom
The mathmpl uses matplotlib's built-in mathtext rendering engine to render the math, which does not currently support any of the grid environments from ams-latex, such as align. If you need those, look at sphinx.ext.pngmath. Mike David Arnold wrote: All, If I am using this in my conf.py

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib build/install error

2009-12-07 Thread Dali Laadhar
Thanks a lot. Effectively, that was the missing headers -- yum install libpng-devel.x86_64 yum install freetype-devel.x86_64 -- Thanks, Dali - Original Message - From: Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com To: Dali Laadhar dali.laad...@predictix.com Cc:

[Matplotlib-users] textbox / prompt in mpl / inputbutton

2009-12-07 Thread Matthias Michler
Hello list, are there any new developments about a field to input text or numbers, which was discussed in thread Prompt in MPL - NEVER MIND in June 2007? Especially I am interested if there exists a version of John Hunters textbox2.py working with current svn, because I am not able to resolve

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Customize/disable keyboard shortcuts

2009-12-07 Thread Matthias Michler
Hi Jorge, Hello list, unfortunately I cannot help you, but I understand your problem and would like to know about a solution, too. I encountered this problem in April/may 2007 (http://old.nabble.com/skip-mpl-axes-interaction-during-key_press_event's-td10221576.html) because of the

[Matplotlib-users] Rotation 3D

2009-12-07 Thread David Arnold
All, Is there any way to rotate a 3D plot_wireframe? D. -- Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your

[Matplotlib-users] Comet

2009-12-07 Thread David Arnold
All, Is there anything resembling Matlab's comet command? D. -- Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from

[Matplotlib-users] greppable cheat sheet for matplotlib ?

2009-12-07 Thread denis
(Old) folks, is there a greppable list of matplotlib functions and attributes along the lines of PyQt4.api PyQt4.QtGui.QAbstractScrollArea.viewport() - QWidget PyQt4.QtGui.QAbstractScrollArea.maximumViewportSize() - QSize ... Grep is really fast, really simple, and can | less to

Re: [Matplotlib-users] I Need a Couple of Tips for Windows to Get Started on IPython

2009-12-07 Thread Wayne Watson
Good. Thanks. Interesting that ls and pwd are used for Win, but that's fine. How do I copy parts of the window? All I can do at the moment is sweep out a rectangular area with the mouse. It looks like I underestimated the need for automagic. David Arnold wrote: Depends on whether automagic

[Matplotlib-users] Replying with Thunderbird. Reply All doesn't cut it all the time.

2009-12-07 Thread Wayne Watson
I see a variance with replying to a post on this list and other Python lists. It appears to be a difference between the way people post. If I see From: a...@xyz.net and To: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net, then Reply All gets both. If I see, From: joe...@xyz.net and To: my e-mail

[Matplotlib-users] axis equal

2009-12-07 Thread David Arnold
All, Is there an axis equal command for mplot3d? D. -- Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk.

[Matplotlib-users] formlayout only for Qt back end?

2009-12-07 Thread Yeates, Mathew C (388D)
Hi I discovered forrmlayout by Pierre Raybaut (http://code.google.com/p/formlayout/) and I would like to use it for plot configuration. Is it only for the PyQt backend? I'm using GtkAgg. Mathew -- Join us December 9,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] I Need a Couple of Tips for Windows to Get Started on IPython

2009-12-07 Thread Wayne Watson
Well, that's interesting, but how did you copy and paste? Quick Python offers this, but no explanation how to copy and paste. The %hist command can show you all previous input, without line numbers if desired (option -n) so you can directly copy and paste code either back in IPython or in a text

Re: [Matplotlib-users] I Need a Couple of Tips for Windows to Get Started on IPython

2009-12-07 Thread Gary Pajer
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Wayne Watson sierra_mtnv...@sbcglobal.netwrote: Good. Thanks. Interesting that ls and pwd are used for Win, but that's fine. How do I copy parts of the window? All I can do at the moment is sweep out a rectangular area with the mouse. It looks like I

Re: [Matplotlib-users] I Need a Couple of Tips for Windows to Get Started on IPython

2009-12-07 Thread Wayne Watson
Hi, I'm using IPython raw. I guess I'm not sure what a shell is in this case. I used to work with Linux years ago and the shell concept was clear there. I'm now simply a Win XP user. What advantages would be available to use a shell? In part of the thread above,(posted 57 minutes after the hour,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] cone plots

2009-12-07 Thread Jae-Joon Lee
I updated the axes_grid toolkit in the svn, and I hope it is more useful. Check the example examples/axes_grid/demo_floating_axes.py The output is attached. -JJ On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Jae-Joon Lee lee.j.j...@gmail.com wrote: Are you running svn version of mpl? Also, as I said, the

[Matplotlib-users] legend for area chart made with fill_between method

2009-12-07 Thread Chuck Pepe-Ranney
How might create a legend for an area chart made with PolyCollection objects via the fill_between method? For example, on the following chart, import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111) ind = np.arange(3) y1 = np.array([1,2,3]) y2 = y1 * 2 a =

[Matplotlib-users] PolyCollection not supported by legend

2009-12-07 Thread Chuck Pepe-Ranney
I apologize for my previous posts. I see that the PolyCollection object is not supported by the legend command. I will use a proxy artist as described here http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/legend_guide.html. - Chuck

[Matplotlib-users] positions of the ticks and ticklabels

2009-12-07 Thread Abhimanyu Lad
Hi, How do I get the coordinates of the ticks and their labels in a coordinate system that I can feed to figtext or text? I want to display some additional text near one of the ticklabels on the x axis. Although I could get the coordinates for figtext using trial and error, but is there a correct

Re: [Matplotlib-users] I Need a Couple of Tips for Windows to Get Started on IPython

2009-12-07 Thread PHobson
Third Google result for copy paste in DOS prompt http://www.copy--paste.org/copy-paste-between-dos-windows.htm Note that right-clicking is going to execute behavior, not bring up a contextual menu. -p -Original Message- From: Wayne Watson [mailto:sierra_mtnv...@sbcglobal.net] Sent:

Re: [Matplotlib-users] I Need a Couple of Tips for Windows to Get Started on IPython

2009-12-07 Thread Gary Ruben
In Windows I recommend running iPython inside Console http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/ particularly for its vastly improved copy and pasting. Gary R. phob...@geosyntec.com wrote: Third Google result for copy paste in DOS prompt

Re: [Matplotlib-users] figimage over plot?

2009-12-07 Thread Jason Heeris
2009/12/1 John Hunter jdh2...@gmail.com: Some of this code is particularly tricky and difficult to get right across use cases (eg composite figimages) and this is exacerbated by the fact that this part of the codebase is lightly used.  So testing will be helpful.  I'm also posting an svn diff

Re: [Matplotlib-users] I Need a Couple of Tips for Windows to Get Started on IPython

2009-12-07 Thread Wayne Watson
OK, here I go. Quick Edit is checked, and I'm running from what looks like the Win XP command console. I am not in full screen mode. I've applied changes to the window. It has scroll bars side and bottom. I've moused the area, and now am going to Edit on the window menu. It works! I just

[Matplotlib-users] scientific notation \times symbol

2009-12-07 Thread Hao Wen
Hi there: I tried to plot large numbers and scientific notation has to be used. But instead of \times symbol, it used e, which cannot be accepted as publishable. Anyone know how to deal with that? My original code is: import matplotlib.pyplot

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Replying with Thunderbird. Reply All doesn't cut it all the time.

2009-12-07 Thread Scott Sinclair
2009/12/7 Wayne Watson sierra_mtnv...@sbcglobal.net: I see a variance with replying to a post on this list and other Python lists. It appears to be a difference between the way people post. If I see From: a...@xyz.net and To: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net, then Reply All gets both.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Replying with Thunderbird. Reply All doesn't cut it all the time.

2009-12-07 Thread Robert Kern
Scott Sinclair wrote: 2009/12/7 Wayne Watson sierra_mtnv...@sbcglobal.net: I see a variance with replying to a post on this list and other Python lists. It appears to be a difference between the way people post. If I see From: a...@xyz.net and To:

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Replying with Thunderbird. Reply All doesn't cut it all the time.

2009-12-07 Thread Scott Sinclair
2009/12/8 Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com: Scott Sinclair wrote: 2009/12/7 Wayne Watson sierra_mtnv...@sbcglobal.net: I see a variance with replying to a post on this list and other Python The moral? Always use Reply To, and hope everyone else remembers to do so as well :) Did you mean