[Matplotlib-users] idea for a matplotlib figure contest (in memoriam John Hunter)

2012-08-30 Thread Andrew Straw
Hi all, Shocked by news of John Hunter's untimely severe health problems and now death, I have been thinking about what we could do as a community to 1) fuel matplotlib to further heights and 2) give everyone, but especially John's family, some appreciation for how wide, and ongoing, his

Re: [Matplotlib-users] missing module docs

2010-02-22 Thread Andrew Straw
John Hunter wrote: On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Ben Axelrod baxel...@coroware.com mailto:baxel...@coroware.com wrote: I noticed that there are many modules in the current code base that are not listed at: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/modindex.html. I understand

Re: [Matplotlib-users] line drawing bug or it's me doing something wrong?

2010-01-15 Thread Andrew Straw
Paweł Rumian wrote: 2010/1/14 Michael Droettboom md...@stsci.edu: What backend are you using? Agg, Cairo and Wx all check out for me. The examples you point to don't look like Agg output to me... The examples were produced using savefig and PNG, but I've tried GTK and Qt with Agg

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Ratio of a plot using matplotlib

2010-01-14 Thread Andrew Straw
Yagua Rovi wrote: I use matplotlib since two days only. I have done some things pretty good but I am now in front of a problem an I didn't found a solution in the documentation. I would like to draw the surface defined by the lists X, Y and the matrix Z. I get to a nice graphical output with

Re: [Matplotlib-users] An other question about matplotlib

2010-01-14 Thread Andrew Straw
Yagua Rovi wrote: Hello Andrew, For the same need as the previous message, I try to display in colour a given surface based with on polar coordinates. Z = f (r, theta) Can you show me which function I have to use? I don't know what to do with polar (theta, r) function. Is there an option

Re: [Matplotlib-users] feature discussion/request: a 'layout' command for matplotlib

2010-01-10 Thread Andrew Straw
per freem wrote: hi all, i am a *huge fan* of matplotlib and use it for all plotting. one feature that i would find extremely useful that i believe is missing (but am very open to being corrected in case i overlooked something) is a way to define the layout of complex subplots. by this i

Re: [Matplotlib-users] feature discussion/request: a 'layout' command for matplotlib

2010-01-10 Thread Andrew Straw
Gael Varoquaux wrote: On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 07:32:27AM -0800, Andrew Straw wrote: This first is mplsizer, based on the wx layout model, and works live (with a figure open in a GUI) as well as for saving to disk. See the demo directory for, well, some demos. I haven't been using this too

Re: [Matplotlib-users] making inset graphs (small graph inside larger graph?)

2009-12-23 Thread Andrew Straw
per freem wrote: Hi all, I was hoping someone could point to an example of making inset graphs, where a small graph appears inside of a large graph. For example i want to make a line plot (using plot) and then embed a bar graph (using bar) inside it. how can i do that?

Re: [Matplotlib-users] incorrect boxplot?

2009-12-20 Thread Andrew Straw
Robert Kern wrote: On 2009-09-14 13:49 PM, Gökhan Sever wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:30 PM, jason-s...@creativetrax.com mailto:jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: I tried the following (most output text is deleted): In [1]: ob1=[1,1,2,2,1,2,4,3,2,2,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,7,6,4,5,5]

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib with Qt4 backend

2009-11-12 Thread Andrew Straw
Celil Rufat wrote: I just installed matplotlib on Snow Leopard 10.6 with the Qt4 backend (via macports). However, when I try one of the Qt4 examles: python /opt/local/share/py26-matplotlib/examples/user_interfaces/embedding_in_qt4.py IOError: [Errno 4] Interrupted system call Any ideas

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib with Qt4 backend

2009-11-12 Thread Andrew Straw
Robert Kern wrote: On 2009-11-12 12:05 PM, Andrew Straw wrote: Celil Rufat wrote: I just installed matplotlib on Snow Leopard 10.6 with the Qt4 backend (via macports). However, when I try one of the Qt4 examles: python /opt/local/share/py26-matplotlib/examples/user_interfaces

Re: [Matplotlib-users] mplot3d: plot_surface() and contour on grid?

2009-10-09 Thread Andrew Straw
Matthias Michler wrote: Hello list, I'm not an expert in axes3d, but in case the feature which Nicolas requested is not possible in an easy manner up to now, I propose an additional kwarg for axes3d.Axes3D.contour. Something like *offset*. If offset is None the z-values of the contour

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Contouring on triangular grids

2009-09-18 Thread Andrew Straw
Ian Thomas wrote: I've written some code to perform contouring on triangular grids. I wrote the underlying C++ for a separate project, but as there has been some interest on the mpl mailing lists for such functionality I've had a go at wrapping it up as a python module so that it is available

[Matplotlib-users] violin plots

2009-09-17 Thread Andrew Straw
Flávio Coelho has implemented Violin plots for MPL. Nice! He has a question regarding its suitability for inclusion due to a dependency on scipy for the gaussian_kde function. http://pyinsci.blogspot.com/2009/09/violin-plot-with-matplotlib.html Is there a place this could live in the MPL code

[Matplotlib-users] [job] top-flight graphicist needed for climate science media group

2009-09-13 Thread Andrew Straw
I am posting this for a friend of mine. Please respond to the email address in the ad if you are interested. -- Forwarded message -- From: *Ben Strauss* bstra...@climatecentral.org mailto:bstra...@climatecentral.org Date: Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:56 PM Subject: [job] top-flight

Re: [Matplotlib-users] segfault on plot

2009-09-11 Thread Andrew Straw
Dave wrote: I resolved the issue by compiling matplotlib from source on my windows box which I'm happy to report wasn't too difficult! It seems to work for my usual interactive use however it segfaults when running the tests :| http://pastebin.com/m5ee30885 Thanks for running this. To

Re: [Matplotlib-users] making quicktime animations from linux

2009-09-04 Thread Andrew Straw
Phil Austin wrote: Andrew Straw wrote: I use:: ffmpeg -r 60 -i frame%05d.png -vcodec wmv2 -b 2000k out.avi That's encouraging, thanks. I tried this and produced http://clouds.eos.ubc.ca/~phil/video/out.avi Just to confirm: the two OSX users down the hall get a missing

Re: [Matplotlib-users] making quicktime animations from linux

2009-09-03 Thread Andrew Straw
I use:: ffmpeg -r 60 -i frame%05d.png -vcodec wmv2 -b 2000k out.avi And this works well to generate movies that play on Windows, Mac and Linux. As a bonus, these movies can be included in Latex/Beamer output using the movies15 package and played within the PDF via Adobe Reader on Mac and

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Placing vector eps graphics

2009-09-01 Thread Andrew Straw
jakobg wrote: Hi there, I want to place an eps graphic I created in Inkscape in a plot. The final image is supposed to be a vector eps as well. I looked up the forum but just found the option with the Image (PIL) library which obviously rasterizes my vector image. And I use the Tex option so

Re: [Matplotlib-users] best format for MS word?

2009-09-01 Thread Andrew Straw
Shixin Zeng wrote: Hi, Could someone tell me what's the best format that matplotlib can produce for insertion to MS word? You can try PyEMF. I don't know its status -- it might need some TLC. http://pyemf.sourceforge.net/

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Axes.frame vs. Axes.spines in SVN Basemap and Matplotlib? (was New contourf()...)

2009-06-16 Thread Andrew Straw
Zane Selvans wrote: Yep, looks like the trunk has fixed the contourf() issue. Unfortunately there also seems to be some new incompatibility with the Basemap toolkit, even after re-installing Basemap from source. I get: AttributeError: Axes.frame was removed in favor of Axes.spines It

Re: [Matplotlib-users] one data set, two y axis scales

2009-06-05 Thread Andrew Straw
John Hunter wrote: On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Jae-Joon Leelee.j.j...@gmail.com wrote: I hope the code below gives you some idea. def Tc(Tf): return (5./9.)*(Tf-32) ax1 = subplot(111) # y-axis in F ax2 = twinx() # y-axis in C def update_ax2(ax1): y1, y2 = ax1.get_ylim()

Re: [Matplotlib-users] ANN: matplotlib-0.98.5.3

2009-05-21 Thread Andrew Straw
Adam Mercer wrote: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 21:25, John Hunter jdh2...@gmail.com wrote: The problem here is that I built the site docs from svn, not the last release. 0.98.6svn is the version stamp from svn. I have mixed feelings about fixing this. On the one hand, there is merit to having

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Question about imshow

2009-05-18 Thread Andrew Straw
John Hunter wrote: On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Jae-Joon Lee lee.j.j...@gmail.com wrote: I think one possible solution would be to simply deprecate the support for PIL image in imshow, and let users explicitly use array-interface via asarray function. Is there any other idea? I'll

Re: [Matplotlib-users] pyplot.figure stealing window focus!!

2009-04-14 Thread Andrew Straw
Tyler B wrote: Hi there, I am trying to run a python script on my computer at a regular interval [in the background] to output an image file using matplotlib. My problem is that every time the script runs, it momentarily steals focus from whatever I'm working on -- which over time gets to

Re: [Matplotlib-users] pyplot.figure stealing window focus!!

2009-04-14 Thread Andrew Straw
Tyler B wrote: I think that did it --- thanks Andrew!! Just out of curiosity, what does 'Agg' refer to? It's the low-level drawing library, anti-grain. You're bypassing the loading of whatever other backend -- a low-level drawing system -- that matplotlib was loading before. Also, I'm

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Updating a plot

2009-04-10 Thread Andrew Straw
Pellegrini Eric wrote: Hello everybody, I would like to create a plot from which I set the x data later. The method set_xdata works but the corresponding plot displays the initial x limits. Is it possible to update the plot automatically in order that the displayed plot has x limits

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basemap Installation Errors

2009-04-10 Thread Andrew Straw
jtamir wrote: Andrew Straw wrote: Does that file .h exist at that location? Yes, __multiarray_api.h is in ~/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/core/include/numpy/ I am installing with prefix set to home directory. Andrew Straw wrote: can you re-send the output including the first

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basemap Installation Errors

2009-04-08 Thread Andrew Straw
jtamir wrote: Hi, I am having trouble installing Basemap. I followed the directions in the README file included in the archive (and posted at http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/basemap/doc/html/users/installing.html). After successfully installing the GEOS library (also included), I cd to the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib._path failed on windows build for Python 2.6

2009-04-08 Thread Andrew Straw
Lorenzo Di Gregorio wrote: Hello, I've tried to build matplotlib 0.98.5.2 for Python 2.6 under Windows (Win2k) using MinGW and win32_static. After a few fixes, the compilation and install appear to be ok, but I've got stuck at importing matplotlib._path (see transcript below). Any

Re: [Matplotlib-users] imread() and PNGs

2009-04-05 Thread Andrew Straw
Tobias Wood wrote: Tobias, I would like to apply your patch, but the test in examples/tests/pngsuite fails. If you can submit a new patch where this test passes, and, even better, if a small example 12-bit PNG of yours is added to the test, I will apply it. Apart from that, I would echo

Re: [Matplotlib-users] imread() and PNGs

2009-04-04 Thread Andrew Straw
Eric Firing wrote: Tobias Wood wrote: Hi everyone, After getting fed severely fed up with Matlab in recent months I downloaded Python, Numpy and Matplotlib to try out as an alternative. So far I'm pleasantly impressed, even if building from source on Mac OS X is an experience ;) However,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Installing matplotlib for python 2.6 under windows

2009-03-19 Thread Andrew Straw
Romi Agar wrote: Hi! I'm having a bit difficulty getting matplotlib to run under windows (vista x64) with python 2.6. I downloaded the source from svn, ran the build and install commands, Does that mean python setup.py install? then copied the content of /build/lib.win32-2.6 to

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Rotating in imshow

2009-03-13 Thread Andrew Straw
Eric Firing wrote: Thomas Robitaille wrote: Hello, I was wondering whether there is a way to rotate a grayscale/ colorscale when using imshow. I have been using PGPLOT (a fortran/c plotting library) for many years now, and the equivalent to imshow is called PGGRAY (or PGIMAG). One of

Re: [Matplotlib-users] find the projected distance between two curves

2009-02-20 Thread Andrew Straw
G. Allegri wrote: Hi Andrew. With dist(point_i,polynomial_curve) do you mean point_i belonging to the Line 2 set of points and pol_curve as Line 1? yes In this case it could be reasonably ok for me. How can I derive the closed form for dist()? Excuse my ignorance with geometry Take

Re: [Matplotlib-users] find the projected distance between two curves

2009-02-19 Thread Andrew Straw
G. Allegri wrote: Hello list, I'm completely new to matplotlib and I'm not a computer scientist (not a good starting point!) but I need to solve a geometric/graphical problem. I've been asked to find a method, in Python, to find the distance between a 2D polynomial curve, derived from least

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [matplotlib-devel] What would you like to see in a book about Matplotlib?

2009-01-05 Thread Andrew Straw
Hi Sandro, It's great news that a book may come out on MPL. Speaking as an aspiring university professor in neuroscience, I would like to see something that could be used as a resource for undergraduate students just learning Python and MPL. Due to this perspective, I think such a book would

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib PSD bug?

2008-12-01 Thread Andrew Straw
Ryan May wrote: Fago, Matt - AES wrote: I cannot really compute the example without the pad_to support in svn. Nevertheless, using something similar (nfft=128, noffset=64) gives similarly erroneous results. Did you add 'pad_to'? If so, thanks! Good to know. I recently (within the last

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Error During Install basemap-0.9.9

2008-08-16 Thread Andrew Straw
I don't know fedora, but is there a numpy-dev package or something similar? You'll need it to install numpy's header files. Zainal Abidin wrote: Hi All, I have an error during basemap-0.9.9 installation src/_geos.c:28:31: error: numpy/arrayobject.h: No such file or directory and so on ..

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Colormap cluttering?

2008-07-28 Thread Andrew Straw
Laurent Dufrechou wrote: Hello, I would like to have a cluttering functionality to colorbar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutter_(radar) Before writing it, I would like to know if there is a way to doing it with matplotlib. What I mean by cluttering is: You’ve got

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Axes3d

2008-06-22 Thread Andrew Straw
Mike, just a question about the new transforms backend -- can the input dimensionality be greater than 2? (I realize functions to do so probably don't currently exist, but the question is about the transforms machinery itself.) -Andrew Michael Droettboom wrote: I'm not very familiar with how

Re: [Matplotlib-users] deb or rpm packages

2008-06-19 Thread Andrew Straw
rex wrote: Andrew Straw [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-06-05 09:42]: For i386: http://debs.astraw.com/hardy/python-matplotlib_0.98.0-0ads2_i386.deb For amd64: http://debs.astraw.com/hardy/python-matplotlib_0.98.0-0ads2_amd64.deb For all arch: http://debs.astraw.com/hardy/python-matplotlib

Re: [Matplotlib-users] deb or rpm packages

2008-06-05 Thread Andrew Straw
Johan Mazel wrote: Hi I can't find any deb package of matplotlib in the url that you gave me. The sources are there but I'm not interested in the sources since I can find them on the official website of matplotlib. Is there any problem ? Thanks for the answer by the way. Johan mazel They

Re: [Matplotlib-users] deb or rpm packages

2008-06-03 Thread Andrew Straw
I have .debs for Ubuntu Hardy available at http://debs.astraw.com/hardy/ . Note that these packages don't follow all Debian/Ubuntu guidelines and are of lower quality than the official packages, which I recommend over these. Nevertheless, I've packaged these things up for my personal and my

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Numpy v1.1.0 not compatible with pylab in matplotlib 0.9.1

2008-05-29 Thread Andrew Straw
Eric Firing wrote: _backend_gdk.c and nxutils.c both call into the numpy C API; maybe some c++ code does also. It is not entirely clear to me whether 1.1 is sufficiently binary-compatible that this is safe. The C API did not change (with the possible exception of additions). I'd be

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib and cron

2008-05-08 Thread Andrew Straw
Andre, my guess is that there's an attempt made to connect to the (non-existant) X server. You can disable this by forcing a backend that doesn't need the X server. Try import matplotlib matplotlib.use('Agg') before the rest of your script. Andre Wong wrote: Hi I am attempting to generate

Re: [Matplotlib-users] pylab.imshow - how does it work?

2008-01-20 Thread Andrew Straw
Hi Adeola, OpenGL must be expecting a certain packing but your image data is packed differently. You have (at least) two options: 1) alter your numpy arrays to match the packing of OpenGL. This can be done by creating an array with the appropriate .strides value. 2) alter OpenGL's idea of how

[Matplotlib-users] etframes: Applying the ideas of Edward Tufte to matplotlib

2007-09-24 Thread Andrew Straw
I came across this piece by Adam Hupp on programming.reddit.com just now. It looks interesting: http://hupp.org/adam/weblog/2007/09/03/etframes-applying-the-ideas-of-edward-tufte-to-matplotlib/ - This SF.net email is

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Core-dump when (mis)using scale_transform

2007-07-17 Thread Andrew Straw
Thanks for tracking this down, Ben. Applied in svn as r3547. Ben North wrote: I've been using matplotlib for a little while and am finding it very useful. Yesterday, though, I hit a problem: - This SF.net email is

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problems with auto scaling with infinite values

2007-07-13 Thread Andrew Straw
Darren Dale wrote: If we can figure out how to get it from numpy, we can use numpy's isnan as well, and drop that bit of extension code from mpl's sources. Done in r3512. Hurray for inclusion instead of code duplication. (I originally copied that stuff from numarray, which inspired numpy's

Re: [Matplotlib-users] a patch in matplotlib/__init__.py about get_py2exe_datafiles function

2007-06-27 Thread Andrew Straw
Hi Tocer, Thanks for the patch to matplotlib/__init__.py. I changed an obvious issue ('.nil' to '.nib'), but otherwise committed it as-is. Can you (or Werner, who was also having this issue) test the current svn version (=3418) and report back? Cheers! Andrew tocer wrote: Hi, matplotlib

Re: [Matplotlib-users] 2D Radial Plots

2007-06-26 Thread Andrew Straw
Can you convert your radial coordinates to Cartesian coordinates and use approach #2 here: http://scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/Gridding_irregularly_spaced_data Lorenzo Isella wrote: Hello, Sorry for this tread getting quite long, but I am not getting there yet. Online I found examples like:

Re: [Matplotlib-users] spawning plots as separate processes

2007-06-13 Thread Andrew Straw
signal seeker wrote: Bill, The problem is I am writing a bunch of diagonistic tools for users who do not know anything about unix. they just want to type a bunch of commands on a shell and see the plots and they hardly know anything fancy like sending processes to the background :) I

Re: [Matplotlib-users] ANN: matplotlib-0.90.1

2007-06-07 Thread Andrew Straw
Werner F. Bruhin wrote: Hi Andrew, Werner F. Bruhin wrote: Hi Andrew, Andrew Straw wrote: Dear Werner, This seems to be an unintended side-effect of reorganizing the mpl data file location that I did prior to this release. (I.e. it's not your code that broke, I think

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Encoding?

2007-06-07 Thread Andrew Straw
Marek, See the unicode_demo.py and the tex_unicode_demo.py in the examples directory. Marek Wojciechowski wrote: Hi. How can I get polish letters in, for example, plot title? Now I have empty squares instead... Thanks in advance for any help.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] ANN: matplotlib-0.90.1

2007-06-05 Thread Andrew Straw
Dear Werner, This seems to be an unintended side-effect of reorganizing the mpl data file location that I did prior to this release. (I.e. it's not your code that broke, I think it's mpl.) Unfortunately, since I didn't (and still don't) use py2exe, it will be hard for me to fix this. Can you

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Handling LARGE data sets

2007-06-01 Thread Andrew Straw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Alan, I'm not speaking for anyone else, but as far as I'm concerned that code is public domain. OK, well, who wrote the code and who holds the copyright? In other words, your concerns about the code being in the public domain may or may not be relevant, depending

Re: [Matplotlib-users] One title over two subplots

2007-05-02 Thread Andrew Straw
See pylab.figtext() David D Clark wrote: Hello, I have a figure with four subplots (2x2). I would like to put a title centered over the top row. How do I do this? Thanks, Dave - This SF.net email is sponsored by

Re: [Matplotlib-users] small question: svn mpl.__revision__

2007-04-27 Thread Andrew Straw
It hasn't changed since rev 3131: $ svn info __init__.py | grep 'Rev' Revision: 3257 Last Changed Rev: 3131 Matthias Michler wrote: Hi devolopers, one small remark about the mpl svn. I recognized, that in the file ./lib/matplotlib/__init__.py the actual revision is: __revision__ =

[Matplotlib-users] Python issue of Computing in Science and Engineering available

2007-04-25 Thread Andrew Straw
The May/June issue of Computing in Science and Engineering http://computer.org/cise: is out and has a Python theme. Many folks we know and love from the community and mailing lists contribute to the issue. Read articles by Paul Dubois and Travis Oliphant for free online.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Python issue of Computing in Science and Engineering available

2007-04-25 Thread Andrew Straw
(Off list...) (Another g-mailer, huh? Soon they'll know everything about everyone...) Thanks for that info re: online paper copies. I'm actually a week or two away from submitting a follow-up paper from my SciPy '06 talk to them... And submitting to a non-open-access journal was one issue. But

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Python issue of Computing in Science and Engineering available

2007-04-25 Thread Andrew Straw
Andrew Straw wrote: (Off list...) Eek, well, not off-list! :) - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib conflicts with python-dateutils?

2007-04-05 Thread Andrew Straw
Joshua J. Kugler wrote: Installing an egg today, I got this message from easy_install: /usr/bin/easy_install:5: UserWarning: Module dateutil was already imported from /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib-0.87.7-py2.4-linux-i686.egg/dateutil/__init__.pyc, but

Re: [Matplotlib-users] source install question: WXAgg's accelerator requires the wxPython headers.

2007-03-16 Thread Andrew Straw
Dear Ryan, I think you want libwxgtk2.6-dev Ryan Krauss wrote: I am getting a message during a source install that WXAgg's accelerator requires the wxPython headers. What do I need to do to get them for Ubuntu? I think I have all wx packages installed? Do I need to download the source

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Nonblocking Plots with Matplotlib

2007-03-15 Thread Andrew Straw
Bill, very cool. Also, thanks for showing me how Twisted can be used like Pyro, more-or-less, I think. (If I understand your code from my 1 minute perusal.) On Mac OS X, there's one issue I don't have time to follow any further: sys.executable points to

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Square/Circle markers with transparent faces?

2007-03-09 Thread Andrew Straw
set markerfacecolor (a.k.a. mfc) = 'None' (make sure you include the quotes). -Andrew John T Whelan wrote: Dear matplotlib gurus, When I use plot(t,x,'rx',t,y,'bs'); in matlab, it produces blue boxes for y, i.e., squares with a blue border and a transparent interior, so that if one of

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Building on Kubuntu: No module named _ns_backend_agg

2007-02-19 Thread Andrew Straw
Dear Gary, _ns is the numpy backend. Do you have numpy installed? Is it working? Are you compiling matplotlib from source? What version of Ubuntu are you using (Dapper? Edgy?) Gary Pajer wrote: [sorry if this appears more than once. The list manager is timing out when I try to change my

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Floating exception when rendering ylabel()

2007-01-26 Thread Andrew Straw
You may be encountering this bug: http://code.astraw.com/debian_sarge_libc.html John T Whelan wrote: I just installed matplotlib 0.87.5 and numpy 1.0 from source on my Debian sarge (stable release) system. (I chose those versions because they're the ones currently included in the testing

[Matplotlib-users] [basemap] stereographic projection bounding boxes

2006-08-26 Thread Andrew Straw
I've been playing around with stereographic projections, and it appears that the bounding-box for the 'stere' projection isn't computed. Being blissfully unaware of all the complexities involved, I thought I'd send this email to see if there's an easy way to deal with the situation. Basically,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [basemap] stereographic projection bounding boxes

2006-08-26 Thread Andrew Straw
Jeff Whitaker wrote: You should be able to make all those plots without too much difficulty - just some trial and error in choosing the corners of the plot region. If you are making a polar stereographic projection, you can use projection='npstere' or 'spstere' and set the bounding

Re: [Matplotlib-users] EPS fails to open in Adobe Illustrator

2006-07-10 Thread Andrew Straw
Darren Dale wrote: Hi Andrew, On Monday 10 July 2006 8:19 pm, Andrew Straw wrote: Where should I start trying to debug an issue where Adobe Illustrator CS for Windows is unable to open my EPS file generated by matplotlib? When attempting to open the file, a a dialog pops up that says