[Matplotlib-users] 1d weighted histogram with log y-axis not colored correctly

2010-03-11 Thread Craig the Demolishor
Hi folks, Lately I've been working with some data that is too copious to fit in memory, so I've had to write a wrapper for pyplot.hist that bins the data in chunks and then draws it like so: pyplot.hist(x_edges, bins=100, weights=bin_contents, histtype='stepfilled', facecolor='g') However,

[Matplotlib-users] use legend's 'best' location for a text box

2012-01-11 Thread Craig the Demolishor
Hi, I'm drawing a histogram and I would like to place a text box within the axes that shows the number of events. I like the way I can pass "loc='best'" to pyplot.legend() and it automatically does its best to avoid my data. Is there any way to replicate this for a simple call to pyplot.text(), l

Re: [Matplotlib-users] trouble with show() not drawing in interactive mode w/ WxAgg

2012-09-26 Thread Craig the Demolishor
So I rebuilt Python so that I would have Tkinter support, and using TkAgg I get the behavior I want, so it's not mission critical to me to figure this out anymore. But if anyone is interested in tracking it down I will be glad to help. On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Craig the Demolishor