[Matplotlib-users] TypeError: image has incorrect type (should be uint8)

2009-01-02 Thread Simson Garfinkel
Hi. I found a bug in the macos backend. I get this error when I turn on log plotting on the Y axes; it doesn't happen when I turn off log plotting. It also doesn't happen when I use agg.pdf driver. Is this a well-known problem, or should I put together a little demo that demonstrates it? T

[Matplotlib-users] Two bugs when plotting date/time histograms

2009-01-07 Thread Simson Garfinkel
plotlib/backends/backend_macosx.py", line 120, in draw_text self._draw_mathtext(gc, x, y, s, prop, angle) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/ python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backen

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Two bugs when plotting date/time histograms

2009-01-07 Thread Simson Garfinkel
Eric, Thanks for addressing the side-issue. If there were a simple way to list all of the backends, that might help? Any idea about the main point? On Jan 7, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Eric Firing wrote: > Simson Garfinkel wrote: > >> import matplotlib >> matplotlib.use(&#x

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Two bugs when plotting date/time histograms

2009-01-08 Thread Simson Garfinkel
Thanks, Eric. Any idea for a work-around on the bar graphs? As far as the Mac goes, I'm happy to get you a log-in on one, if you want. -Simson On Jan 8, 2009, at 2:31 PM, Eric Firing wrote: > Simson Garfinkel wrote: >> Hi! >> Below is a sample program. It demonstrates tw

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Two bugs when plotting date/time histograms

2009-01-09 Thread Simson Garfinkel
Wow, Eric. That's a lot of stuff! Thanks for looking into this to me. It would probably be useful to have a warning message or something if there are 0 values for the log axes. What do you think? On Jan 8, 2009, at 11:03 PM, Eric Firing wrote: > Simson Garfinkel wrote: >> Tha

[Matplotlib-users] plotting collections on an X date axes

2009-01-11 Thread Simson Garfinkel
Hi. It's me again, asking about dates again. is there any easy way to a collection using dates on the X axes? I've taken the collection example from the website and adopted it so that there is a use_dates flag. Set it to False and spirals demo appears. Set it to True and I get this error:

Re: [Matplotlib-users] plotting collections on an X date axes

2009-01-13 Thread Simson Garfinkel
>> Hi, Eric. >> Ah. Just my luck. I always push this stuff in new and unexpected >> ways. >> Here's what I'm trying to do --- I want to plot a graph of circles >> where the size of the circle and color are determined by the data, >> where the X axis is year/month/day, and the Y axis is just d

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib and PyQt

2009-01-14 Thread Simson Garfinkel
Why do you want to use PyQt and not wxwidgets? On Jan 14, 2009, at 8:19 AM, projet...@club-internet.fr wrote: > Hello, > > I'm searching for informations about using matplotlib interactively > with PyQt. I > would like for example to move line with the mouse. > > > ---

[Matplotlib-users] interactive graphs

2009-03-01 Thread Simson Garfinkel
Greetings. I have a colleague who I have worked hard to convert from matlab to matplotlib. One issue that has come up is clickable graphs. He would like to be able to click on the graphs that matplotlib produces and actually have things happen. For example: * Display information about a hi

[Matplotlib-users] to zip or not to zip - that is the question

2009-03-01 Thread Simson Garfinkel
In working on code for matplotlib, I would generally find it easier to provide an array of objects than to provide an array of X values and a second array of Y values. I understand that X[] and Y[] is the way that matlab does it, but we would find it easier to provide an array of either tup

[Matplotlib-users] pylatex

2006-12-27 Thread Simson Garfinkel
On Dec 16, 2006, at 1:58 PM, Pierre GM wrote: >> I've also written a neat pre-processor that allows you to embed >> python and matplotlib code in LaTeX, so you don't need to have it all >> spread out. And you can populate the results from SQL queries, right >> there in the LaTeX. It makes paper wr

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib-0.87.7 Build Failure

2007-01-11 Thread Simson Garfinkel
Perhaps you have a second installation that you are not aware of. On Jan 11, 2007, at 12:18 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, John Hunter wrote: > >> sudo rm -rf your build dir and site-packages/matplotlib and >> rebuild/reinstall. > > John, > >Rats! That did not change the resu

[Matplotlib-users] cumulative distribution function

2007-03-17 Thread Simson Garfinkel
Hi. I haven't been active for a while, but now I have another paper that I need to get out... Anyway, I need to draw a cumulative distribution function, as the reviewers of my last paper really nailed me to the wall for including histograms instead of CDFs. Is there any way to plot a CDF wit

Re: [Matplotlib-users] cumulative distribution function

2007-03-18 Thread Simson Garfinkel
On Mar 18, 2007, at 12:41 PM, John Hunter wrote: > On 3/17/07, Simson Garfinkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi. I haven't been active for a while, but now I have another paper >> that I need to get out... > > Glad to have you back... Thanks. I've take

Re: [Matplotlib-users] cumulative distribution function

2007-03-20 Thread Simson Garfinkel
t; On 3/17/07, Simson Garfinkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi. I haven't been active for a while, but now I have another paper >> that I need to get out... > > Glad to have you back... > >> Anyway, I need to draw a cumulative distribution function, as the &g

[Matplotlib-users] problems building/installing

2007-04-04 Thread Simson Garfinkel
I'm embarrassed to ask that I'm having trouble building/installing matplotlib on an intel Mac. The version at http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/ wants to give me an .egg file for my Mac, and I have yet to figure out how to load and install .egg files. (How come python is such a mess?) So I

Re: [Matplotlib-users] problems building/installing

2007-04-04 Thread Simson Garfinkel
PPC or Universal. But I finally got it installed. Thanks. On Apr 4, 2007, at 7:38 AM, Edin Salkovic wrote: > On 4/4/07, Simson Garfinkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2. How do I install an EGG file? > > For detailed instructions about eggs see: > http://peak.telecommunity

Re: [Matplotlib-users] BUG: Log axes are upside down with PDF output...

2008-03-21 Thread Simson Garfinkel
On Mar 21, 2008, at 6:12 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > I vaguely recall a bug whereby mathtext on PDF was upside down > (because the direction of the y-axis was not being inverted)... but > I can't find the bug report. > > It does seem to work in 0.90.1 and 0.91.2 (on Linux at least). Are

[Matplotlib-users] update: BUG - axes problem update

2008-03-21 Thread Simson Garfinkel
1. Moving to matplotlib-0.91.2 solved the problem with PDF generation on log axes. 2. Installing matplotlib-0.91.2 on Linux required installing these packages first: * freetype-devel * libpng-devel (Those packages were NOT installed automatically by easy_install) --

[Matplotlib-users] question #2 - labeled bar graphs

2008-03-21 Thread Simson Garfinkel
Is there an easy way to label bars with the value of the bar at that point? I am doing log bars and it would be nice to have them labeled. I guess I can do this manually using text() and the values returned by bar(); is there an automatic way to do it? Thanks! --

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting in C++

2008-03-21 Thread Simson Garfinkel
Dear Francesco, I'm sorry --- it is hard not to read your message and laugh. You really think that the static type checking of C++ is protecting you? Well, it may be, but C++ is unsafe in so many other ways that you are not doing yourself a favor by working in it. If you want to use a types

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Install problem on Leopard

2008-03-22 Thread Simson Garfinkel
Hi. I've seen this problem before. I think that you need to install freetype developer. The easiest way to install this is with macports and then type "port install freetype" On Mar 21, 2008, at 9:50 PM, Andrew Charles wrote: > Yes it was the matplotlib-0.91.2-py2.5-macosx-10.3-fat.egg I tr

Re: [Matplotlib-users] PNG filesize

2008-03-25 Thread Simson Garfinkel
Jpeg. On Mar 25, 2008, at 8:12 AM, Einar M. Einarsson wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm trying to find ways to make the file-size of my PNG images > smaller. > > When I generate my 660*440px image I get a big 168kb file. > (8bit RGB color model, has an alpha channel (need that) but no > interlacing s

[Matplotlib-users] New to matplotlib; documentation errors

2006-11-09 Thread Simson Garfinkel
I'm new to matplotlib; I was using PyX but matplotlib seems further developed for what I want to do. One of the problems that I'm having is simply getting started. I've discovered that there are a whole bunch of dependencies that weren't obvious in the manual: * You need PyNum (docu

[Matplotlib-users] pytz not installed on Mac

2006-11-21 Thread Simson Garfinkel
I'm using matplotlib on a Mac. I tried to do a date plot but got an error message that pytz is not installed. According to the "using matplotlib" tutorial pytz it is supposed to be installed automatically... Traceback (most recent call last): File "make_stats.py", line 184, in ? do_pl

[Matplotlib-users] error bars, plot_date, and connected line

2006-12-02 Thread Simson Garfinkel
Hi. I'm interested in creating a date plot showing bandwidth along a link. I want to have a dot in the center of each date with the average bandwidth and use the error bars to show the 25th and 75th percentiles. I've been trying to figure out how to do this and am having problems. From my

[Matplotlib-users] broken images on tutorial

2006-12-13 Thread Simson Garfinkel
When I look at http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/tutorial.html with Safari, I see a lot of broken images. Any ideas? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of I

Re: [Matplotlib-users] error bars, plot_date, and connected line

2006-12-14 Thread Simson Garfinkel
It's pretty sweet. I'm having other problems which I will post separately, but this is working well. On Dec 3, 2006, at 12:02 PM, Pierre GM wrote: > On Saturday 02 December 2006 17:39, Simson Garfinkel wrote: >> Hi. I'm interested in creating a date plot showing bandw

[Matplotlib-users] dateformatter doesn't

2006-12-14 Thread Simson Garfinkel
Greetings. I've been having lots of luck with my date plots. But I've been having a problem getting the dateformatter to work. I'm using the code below. The dates keep getting formatted with the default, "Sep 28 2006" instead of what I want, "Sep 28" Any thoughts? from datetime import date

[Matplotlib-users] Horizontal grid lines?

2006-12-14 Thread Simson Garfinkel
HI. I wand to have just horizontal grid lines. Is there any way to do this? Thanks! - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Horizontal grid lines?

2006-12-15 Thread Simson Garfinkel
Looks like I need to read *all* of the docstrings. I wish there was an easy way to search them On Dec 15, 2006, at 2:49 AM, Eric Firing wrote: > Simson Garfinkel wrote: >> HI. I wand to have just horizontal grid lines. Is there any way to >> do this? Thanks! > >

[Matplotlib-users] boxplot

2006-12-15 Thread Simson Garfinkel
I've discovered that matplotlib does boxplots, and apparently this is what I should be using for one of the big graphs in my paper. Two problems: 1. I need to put 45 boxplots on a single date plot. Each of the boxes has a different amount of data that goes in it. Since the boxplot()

Re: [Matplotlib-users] boxplot

2006-12-15 Thread Simson Garfinkel
Hm. thanks for the info. But it's not perfect... I get times in my formats, but not the dates. Here is the sample code: #!/usr/bin/python # # Example boxplot code # from pylab import * from matplotlib.dates import MonthLocator, WeekdayLocator, DateFormatter from matplotlib.dates import MONDAY

[Matplotlib-users] suggestion for grid() command

2006-12-16 Thread Simson Garfinkel
It would be useful if grid had two options: drawHorizontalLines = True drawVerticalLines = True This way, people who look for suppressing the X or Y lines would find it in the logical location. - Take Surv

Re: [Matplotlib-users] boxplot

2006-12-16 Thread Simson Garfinkel
> > >> Now, how do I get two boxplots on the same plot? > > Well, just draw two axes. > Simson, now that you're more experienced with matplotlib, you > should really > start speaking python to it. I'd love to speak python to it. But it's harder when all of the examples are in matlab... > > f

Re: [Matplotlib-users] wiki

2006-12-16 Thread Simson Garfinkel
On Dec 16, 2006, at 11:58 AM, Pierre GM wrote: >> I'm very confused by the wiki in general. I click on "wiki" and it >> takes me >> to something that doesn't obviously have anything to do with >> matplotlib... > > Well, it does say: matplotlib cookbook. > >> Like, what's scipy.org? Is it a co

Re: [Matplotlib-users] boxplot

2006-12-16 Thread Simson Garfinkel
I agree. It may be common in matlab, but it really doesn't belong in python. On Dec 16, 2006, at 12:50 PM, Eric Firing wrote: > >>> BTW, this whole subplot(ijk) instead of subplot(i,j,k) notation is >>> really, really confusing to me... >> Don't get overwhelmed. ijk is a shortcut for (i, j, k)

Re: [Matplotlib-users] wiki

2006-12-16 Thread Simson Garfinkel
On Dec 16, 2006, at 1:01 PM, Pierre GM wrote: >> Hi, Pierre. There's a lot of assumptions here. > Indeed, and I apologize > >> I sort of know what numarray, Numeric and numpy are, but I don't care >> all that much. I'm just interested in matplotlib for the plotting. > Well, matplotlib relies on s

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Fwd: boxplot

2006-12-16 Thread Simson Garfinkel
> > I apologize if I offended anyone, this was really not my intention > at all. Oh, I was never offended. > My > point was that after only a few hours, it is indeed possible to get > impressive results and become a real MPL pro. I think that it's possible to get impressive results in a few ho

[Matplotlib-users] Usability with matplotlib

2006-12-16 Thread Simson Garfinkel
A friend of mine from MIT who is just finishing his PhD was over for dinner tonight. We discussed the learning curve of matplotlib and compared it with other plotting systems that we've both used, including gnuplot & PyX. My friend said that he thought that the learning curve was really hi

Re: [Matplotlib-users] dateformatter doesn't

2006-12-16 Thread Simson Garfinkel
On Dec 16, 2006, at 10:25 PM, John Hunter wrote: >>>>>> "Simson" == Simson Garfinkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Simson> Greetings. I've been having lots of luck with my date > Simson> plots. But I've been having a problem

[Matplotlib-users] histograms

2006-12-16 Thread Simson Garfinkel
I'm plotting some histograms with hist() --- well, actually with ax.hist(), where ax is an axis --- and the "normed=1" isn't working the way I would expect. from pylab import * data = sin(arange(0.0,100,.01)) fig = figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111) ax.hist(data,bins=50,normed=1,align='cen

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Usability with matplotlib

2006-12-16 Thread Simson Garfinkel
> > Simson> 3. If I was going to make a major change to the API at > Simson> this point, it would be to make it so that you don't have > Simson> a class/function/ identifier called "axes" and another one > Simson> called "axis." I frequently get confused between these two > Sims

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Usability with matplotlib

2006-12-18 Thread Simson Garfinkel
something a 5e+5 Bps will just be lost. You *might* get away with e+3, e+6, and e+9, but never the other e's. On Dec 18, 2006, at 8:53 AM, Darren Dale wrote: > On Saturday 16 December 2006 20:00, Simson Garfinkel wrote: >> 1. I think that scientific notation should not be the d

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Usability with matplotlib

2006-12-18 Thread Simson Garfinkel
separator and what to use as a decimal point. Support for I18N is built into most operating systems. Unfortunately, I don' t know the Python API. Does anybody? On Dec 18, 2006, at 10:35 AM, John Travers wrote: > On 18/12/06, Simson Garfinkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>