Re: [Matplotlib-users] Text box adaptable

2011-03-08 Thread Mike Kaufman
Is there an easy way to draw a piece of text (or whatever) to an off-screen or off-canvas buffer, figure out the size from that, and then use that to draw to the plot? M On 3/8/11 5:51 AM, Andrea Crotti wrote: Goyogoyod...@gmail.com writes: As Ben explained you need to draw first. So the

[Matplotlib-users] use of data coordinates in axhline?

2011-03-25 Thread Mike Kaufman
What the best way to to use data coordinates rather than axes coordinates for xmin and xmax with axhline? Here's my kludgy solution, but it's not elegant: plot(arange(20)) ax = gca() inv = ax.transAxes.inverted() x = inv.transform(ax.transData.transform([10,0])) ax.axhline(10, xmax=x[0]) I

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to Add Minor Ticks to Auto-Scaled Axis?

2011-06-21 Thread Mike Kaufman
I'm not sure exactly how you want your minor ticks, but you can try this LinearMinorLocator (which is not in the distribution yet). If you're conversant with git you can find the branch here: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/122 M On 6/19/11 3:20 PM,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to maintain fractional minor tick spacing

2012-03-11 Thread Mike Kaufman
On 3/11/12 8:14 AM, cgraves wrote: Hi, here is an example script which places minor ticks with 2 per major tick (minor tick spacing is fractional of major tick spacing with relative interval of 1/2): from pylab import * fig=figure() ax=subplot(111) ax.autoscale(tight=True)

Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to maintain fractional minor tick spacing

2012-03-26 Thread Mike Kaufman
On 3/26/12 12:49 PM, Christopher Graves wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Christopher Graves christoph.gra...@gmail.com mailto:christoph.gra...@gmail.com wrote: Try this: from pylab import * from matplotlib.ticker import AutoMinorLocator clf()

[Matplotlib-users] `patch` command for pyplot?

2012-06-13 Thread Mike Kaufman
I believe that the only way to add a patch is through ax.add_patch() Should there be an associated pyplot patch() command? M -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Scatter legend woes.

2012-06-13 Thread Mike Kaufman
On 6/13/12 3:23 PM, Steven Boada wrote: Whoops, I forgot to change the subject. Sorry list. List, I'm making a scatter plot using a for loop. Here's a simple example.. for i in range(10): x=rand() y=rand() scatter(x,y,label='point') legend() show() When you do

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Scatter legend woes.

2012-06-13 Thread Mike Kaufman
On 6/13/12 4:06 PM, Steven Boada wrote: Well I am doing a lot more than this simple example shows. Point is that there are nine different points each with their own legend entry. I could put it all out of the for loops, but it is all already written, and I'd rather just fix the legend at the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] drawing secondary x axis for months: a better way?

2012-10-08 Thread Mike Kaufman
On 10/8/12 11:03 PM, Paul Tremblay wrote: I often have to make graphs with time series, with each point being the start of a week. Below is the result I wish: However, in order to make the secondary x axis the the month labels, I need something like 40 lines of code. My strategy consists in

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Options for speeding up matplotlib, spectrogram with log scale axis, etc.

2012-10-09 Thread Mike Kaufman
On 10/9/12 10:03 PM, Jody Klymak wrote: Hi Eric, The pcolormesh docstring notes that it is much faster than pcolor; the pcolor docstring probably should refer people to pcolormesh, since matlab users are likely to go straight to pcolor without realizing that they should be using

Re: [Matplotlib-users] rasterized colorbar

2012-10-29 Thread Mike Kaufman
On 10/29/12 1:08 PM, Jody Klymak wrote: On Oct 28, 2012, at 17:47 PM, Eric Firing efir...@hawaii.edu wrote: cb = colorbar() cb.solids.set_rasterized(True) Great! Though I think it'd have taken me a while to figure that one out! I gotta agree. Is this (and the solids object) documented

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Make clear figure used in the powerpoint slides?

2014-04-21 Thread Mike Kaufman
Why not save to PDF? Drops straight into Powerpoint... M On 4/21/14, 4:50 PM, ChaoYue wrote: OK, I tried but I don't really see the difference between jpg and png by my eyes in the attached case, maybe for other more complicated plots there will be real difference. Anyway, thanks to all for

Re: [Matplotlib-users] writing subscripts with default matplot font

2014-06-12 Thread Mike Kaufman
use matplotlib's internal latex parsing: text(0.2,0.4,text$_{\mathrm{subscript}}$) M On 6/12/14, 6:26 AM, Nemanja Savic wrote: Hi all guys, I am not able to find answer on my question: how to write subscripts using default matplotlib font? best, -- Nemanja Savić

Re: [Matplotlib-users] modifying a plot from an imported module

2014-06-16 Thread Mike Kaufman
Hi. The short answer is yes. orion:~ % cat A.py from matplotlib.pyplot import * print A plot([0,1],[0,1]) draw() orion:~ % cat B.py from matplotlib.pyplot import * import A print B plot([0.5,0.75],[0,1]) draw() show() Using ipython: In [2]: run -i B.py A B and the figure shows both