Re: [Matplotlib-users] backend_wx and 0.98.0

2008-06-13 Thread Stan West
For what it's worth, the WX backend isn't working for me with wxPython 2.8.4; I get the following when I attempt to show a figure: File C:\Program Files\Python25\lib\site-packages\matplotlib-0.98.0_r5467-py2.5-win32.egg\mat plotlib\backends\backend_wx.py, line 474, in select

Re: [Matplotlib-users] backend_wx and 0.98.0

2008-06-13 Thread Stan West
Hi, Andrea. Yes, I bet that upgrading would resolve the issue. However, the issue isn't getting in my way at the moment, since I use the WXAgg backend and it works well as far as I can tell. I mainly wanted to point out for informational purposes -- and I may have been unclear about my point --

Re: [Matplotlib-users] ticks label to the right side

2008-06-16 Thread Stan West
Quoting Fabrice Silva: Using version 0.91.2, I do not manage to push ticks labels to the right side of the axis, keeping ticks lines on both sides. How can I do it ? One solution is yax = gca().yaxis yax.set_ticks_position('right') # labels right side; removes left ticks

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Setting tick labelsize programatically

2008-11-05 Thread Stan West
-Original Message- From: Joshua J. Kugler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 18:39 On Tuesday 04 November 2008, Joshua J. Kugler said something like: Here is one way to do it:: for label in ax.get_xticklabels() + ax.get_yticklabels():

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to change yticks on colorbar?

2008-11-05 Thread Stan West
From: Mark Bakker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 06:25 Hello list - I am trying to change the yticks on my colorbar (in combination with contourf) and cannot figure out how to do it. Short example: x,y = meshgrid(linspace(0,10),linspace(0,10)) a =

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to change yticks on colorbar?

2008-11-06 Thread Stan West
From: Mark Bakker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 10:48 Thanks Stan. I read the docs (which are quite nice), but couldn't find a way to set the ticks after the fact. But your method worked, Mark It seems to me that setting the ticks after the fact is more

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Labels cut off with log axes

2008-11-13 Thread Stan West
Another approach is to use the subplotpars kwarg to adjust the positioning parameters when initializing the figure. Here's how I like to implement that approach when I want strict dimensions: figW = 6.5 # in inches figH = 7 fig = figure(figsize=(figW, figH),

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

2009-09-02 Thread Stan West
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Christopher Barkerchris.bar...@noaa.gov wrote: MS simply doesn't lay well with open vector formats, I think PNG with the right DPI, etc is still probably your best bet. Yes, I think I have to stick to this option I agree; in my experience, a bitmap such

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

2009-09-02 Thread Stan West
-Original Message- From: Shixin Zeng [mailto:zeng.shi...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 16:11 While for embeding eps files in word, I've just tried that. MS word 2007 seems to have some problem on this. See the attached eps file produced from matplotlib. In MS

Re: [Matplotlib-users] download

2009-09-09 Thread Stan West
From: Michael Droettboom [mailto:md...@stsci.edu] Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 08:17 This change has gone into effect (for me at least on a Liux box). Can anyone test Windows and Mac and report back? On Windows 7RC, Firefox 3.5.2 and IE 8.0 see matplotlib-0.99.0.win32-py2.6.exe.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] trailing space in text string stripped, making it impossible to right-pad my text

2009-10-02 Thread Stan West
From: Christopher Barrington-Leigh [mailto:cpblpublic+nab...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 21:58 Hello. My problem is as follows: (ipython --pylab) from pylab import * pp=plot([0,0],[1,1]) text(xlim()[0],1,'Need padding ',horizontalalignment='left')

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Py2.5.4 on Win7

2009-10-23 Thread Stan West
From: Werner F. Bruhin [mailto:werner.bru...@free.fr] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 07:31 I am just installing Windows 7 Pro and I am running into a problem with matplotlib. When running e.g. barchart_demo.py I get an error that it can not find msvcp71.dll (the dll is in C:\Python25)

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Py2.5.4 on Win7

2009-10-26 Thread Stan West
From: Werner F. Bruhin [mailto:werner.bru...@free.fr] Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 06:23 Installed Py 2.6.3 and I don't see the issue there, but not all libraries I use are on 2.6 yet. So, I thought lets install Python(x, y) and give this a try, but I can't find a Python 2.5.x

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Py2.5.4 on Win7

2009-10-26 Thread Stan West
From: Werner F. Bruhin [mailto:werner.bru...@free.fr] Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 09:03 I got it working by adding C:\Python25 to the path environment variable. Works but smells very much like a work around. I'm glad you got things working. For what it's worth, my path contains not

Re: [Matplotlib-users] SVG output: possible bug

2009-10-26 Thread Stan West
From: Craig Lang [mailto:cr...@grapheneindustries.com] Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 13:04 Greetings, I am using matplotlib to generate an SVG plot containing a mixture of Annotations and Circles. I noticed that the annotation text does not appear at exactly the correct location when

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Cant load file as an array.

2009-10-28 Thread Stan West
From: Piter_ [mailto:x.pi...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 14:37 Hi all. I have a problem with loading file of following format: first 1024 rows are tab delimited and contain from 2 to 256 elements (in different files different number of columns) after that 5 empty lines and at the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] make autoscale_view even less tight?

2010-02-18 Thread Stan West
From: C M [mailto:cmpyt...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 17:15 I would like to understand your approach better. So far, I can't get your code to produce the margins indicated--but I'm probably applying it wrongly. I don't know how to force an autoscale, for example. Your

Re: [Matplotlib-users] qqplot

2010-05-21 Thread Stan West
From: MONTAGU Thierry [mailto:thierry.mont...@cea.fr] Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 09:37 has anyone ever tried to make a quantile-quantile plot with pylab? is there any build in function named say qqplot available ? For a plot comparing samples to a theoretical distribution (and if you don't

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Animated Line2D

2010-06-22 Thread Stan West
From: Nie, Jinsuo [mailto:j...@bnl.gov] Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 09:33 ... I modified the path_editor.py example in order to make a line editor, as attached. The path_editor.py worked fine on Qt4Agg. However, in the line editor, the line was not draggable on the same backend. ... The

Re: [Matplotlib-users] change font name (under certain font.family)

2010-09-01 Thread Stan West
From: Yi Shang [mailto:mirandaisb...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 17:33 Hi Ben, Thanks for the reply. I did try to match font.family and font.$family and I am using matplotlib 0.99.0. I did find something interesting... For testing, I tried only using font.family line, (deleting

Re: [Matplotlib-users] change font name (under certain font.family)

2010-09-02 Thread Stan West
From: Yi Shang [mailto:mirandaisb...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 15:34 from numpy import * from matplotlib import pyplot as plt import pylab params = {'font.size' : 16, 'axes.labelsize' : 16, 'font.style' : 'normal', 'font.family' : 'sans-serif',

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Axes outer position - amount of space for axeslabels

2010-09-23 Thread Stan West
From: Jeremy Lewi [mailto:jl...@intellisis.com] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 17:38 Is there a way to get the size of the bounding box for the axes which includes the axes labels and tick marks? It looks like Axes.get_position/set_position refers to the inner position (i.e the actual plot

Re: [Matplotlib-users] imshow() and a transparent colormap?

2010-10-01 Thread Stan West
From: Nicolas Bigaouette [mailto:nbigaoue...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 18:00 What I would like to do it have a colormap which is transparent for lower values of data and opaque for high values, so the blue on the figure would appear white/transparent. Would it suffice for

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Missing Toolbar Button inside Wx Application

2010-10-06 Thread Stan West
From: Sebastian Rhode [mailto:sebrh...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 13:02 if I plot an normal figure the toolbar contains an button (looks like a checkbox), which can be used to edit the lines and axes parameters. But when I embed such a figure in an Wx application, this

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Libertine font in Matplotlib?

2010-10-20 Thread Stan West
From: Thøger Emil Juul Thorsen [mailto:thoe...@fys.ku.dk] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 14:04 I'm using the excellent font Linux Libertine for writing my thesis, in which I do my plotting in matplotlib. I would really love to be ablu to have consistent fonts in both text and graphs - is

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Not seeing middle mouse button events

2010-10-22 Thread Stan West
From: Brian J. Soher [mailto:bso...@briansoher.com] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 10:27 I'm using matplotlib 0.98.5.2, wxPython version 2.8-msw-unicode, on Windows XP Professional x64 at work (and 32bit at home). At work I have a plain old Dell 2 button mouse with a scroll wheel

Re: [Matplotlib-users] stem plots:

2010-10-22 Thread Stan West
From: Alan G Isaac [mailto:ais...@american.edu] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 19:12 ax.stem(x, y, '-.') draws the stem second, so that it is visible on top of the dot. Is this intentional? (I think it looks better with the dot on top.) How to reverse? I would usually place the dot

Re: [Matplotlib-users] merge two axes

2010-10-22 Thread Stan West
From: Ruggero [mailto:giurr...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 17:59 I want to merge axes from f1 and f2 in a unique axes (withou splitting the figure). For example if f1 produces a line and f2 produces another line I want to see two lines in the same plot at the end. If you

Re: [Matplotlib-users] stem plots:

2010-10-25 Thread Stan West
From: Alan G Isaac [mailto:ais...@american.edu] Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 13:25 On 10/22/2010 12:39 PM, Stan West wrote: markerline.set_zorder(markerline.get_zorder() + 0.1) Nice idea. Thanks, You're welcome. Now that I look at it again, I suppose that something like

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Newbie: How to change style of tick labels inloglog plot

2010-11-02 Thread Stan West
From: Gino Serpa [mailto:gino.se...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 13:52 I am trying to change the format of the tick labels in a loglog plot from exponential to decimal. Right now the labels are 10^2 10 1 10^-1 10^-2 and I would like them to be 100 10 1 0.1 0.01 I tried finding

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Setting tick labels for matshow

2010-11-02 Thread Stan West
From: Nikolaus Rath [mailto:nikol...@rath.org] Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 16:17 but if I try to do the same think with the Y axis, everything looks messed up (e.g. the matrix is no longer square): The matrix remains square for me using a build from Subversion. What's your

Re: [Matplotlib-users] fill_between with drawstyle steps?

2010-11-12 Thread Stan West
From: Thøger Emil Juul Thorsen [mailto:thoe...@fys.ku.dk] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 11:10 I'm trying to do a fill-between part of a spectrum and its continuum value. I would strongly prefer the drawstyle to be steps, since each data point represents a bin (or pixel, to be precise).

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Update values of errorbars

2010-11-16 Thread Stan West
From: Gianfranco Durin [mailto:g.du...@inrim.it] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 11:32 Dear mpl users, I have the following problem to solve. Imagine to have the simple example reported on website plotting the errorbars of some x,y data: ... and if I change, for instance, y: y

Re: [Matplotlib-users] import pylab crashes python

2010-11-19 Thread Stan West
From: D [mailto:dali...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 16:52 I am running Python 2.5.2 on win xp sp3 on an Intel Core2 Duo. After installation of matplotlib-1.0.0.win32-py2.5.exe I get a Windows crash on importing pylab. import pylab - An unhandled win32 exception occured in

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Update values of errorbars [solved]

2010-12-03 Thread Stan West
From: G. Durin [mailto:g.du...@inrim.it] Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 08:34 snip # Update the error bars barlinecols[0].set_segments(zip(zip(x-xerr,y), zip(x+xerr,y))) barlinecols[1].set_segments(zip(zip(x,y-yerr), zip(x,y+yerr))) The last lines are a little clumsy, but I could not

Re: [Matplotlib-users] applying colormap to a line

2011-04-01 Thread Stan West
From: Nat Echols [mailto:nathaniel.ech...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 16:47 I'd like to divide the line segments up to get a smoother color gradient, but the values are dictated by the experiment, not a mathematical function. snip so I guess what I'm really asking for is a way

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Forcing the size of a figure

2011-08-15 Thread Stan West
From: David Just [mailto:just.da...@mayo.edu] Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 11:05 Now that I'm pre-building all my enlarged interpolated images to scroll through, I'm having trouble forcing the figure/FigureCanvas to be the size I want. I'm trying: fig.set_size_inches(768 / 72.0, 768 /

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Define minimum precision for tick labels

2011-08-22 Thread Stan West
From: André Dankert [mailto:andre.dank...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 04:12 I have a minor style problem, but, nevertheless, I can't solve it with googles help. I want to have a minimum precision displayed on my ticks, i.e. if the ticks are -1,-0.5,0,0.5,1 it should be

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Connecting an arbitrary list of points

2011-08-26 Thread Stan West
From: Benjamin Root [mailto:ben.r...@ou.edu] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 13:43 I have an arbitrary list of coordinates that I know represent the boundary of a polygon. Is there some sort of function from the contouring or path codes that would allow me to pass in that list and get back the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Connecting an arbitrary list of points

2011-08-26 Thread Stan West
From: ben.v.r...@gmail.com [mailto:ben.v.r...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Benjamin Root Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 13:11 Actually, that might be useful. The current solution I have is to use the core contouring function in mpl to generate paths, but they doesn't seem to guarantee either clockwise

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Warning: converting a masked element to nan

2011-11-04 Thread Stan West
From: questions anon [mailto:questions.a...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 17:17 Thanks, I think you are right about the datetimes for the x axis causing the problem. Does anyone have any ideas how to resolve this? Does it help to call ax.xaxis_date() before your calls to

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Eye patterns (Heat plot?)

2012-01-23 Thread Stan West
From: Russ Dill [mailto:russ.d...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 16:31 I'm using matplotlib from pylab to generate eye patterns for signal simulations. ... Is there any way within matplotlib to do that right now? One way combines Numpy's histogram2d and matplotlib's imshow,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to draw a curve until it intersects another curve

2012-05-31 Thread Stan West
From: Jerzy Karczmarczuk [mailto:jerzy.karczmarc...@unicaen.fr] Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 12:56 Gordon Hardmant : I ...cannot find a simple way to stop a curve being drawn once it crosses another curve. In the attached example, I am trying to draw the solid curve only until it

Re: [Matplotlib-users] scatter plot with constant x

2012-06-06 Thread Stan West
From: Eric Firing [mailto:efir...@hawaii.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 13:41 To: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] scatter plot with constant x On 06/06/2012 06:42 AM, Ethan Gutmann wrote: ... No, but you can do this: plt.plot([3] * 4,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlit.pyplot.xtick lablel alignment withsubscripts

2012-06-28 Thread Stan West
From: Andre' Walker-Loud [mailto:walksl...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 22:19 Hi All, Trying to tune alignment of xtick labels. [...] Try as I might, I can not figure out how to get these to align how I want (I have tried all the options from verticalalignment=option in

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to determine position of axes after imshow?

2012-08-01 Thread Stan West
From: Mark Bakker [mailto:mark...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 05:54 Hello List, I am trying to determine the position of the axes after an imshow and am having problems. I get a different answer on my Mac (the correct answer) than Windows (the wrong answer). [...] Any thoughts?

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to determine position of axes after imshow?

2012-08-09 Thread Stan West
From: Mark Bakker [mailto:mark...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 06:42 I tried a few things and found out that doing a pause works. So why does a pause work, but a draw() or show() does not? This all on Windows using the standard PythonXY installation. Here is the code that works

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to determine position of axes after imshow?

2012-08-14 Thread Stan West
From: Mark Bakker [mailto:mark...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 14:43 I am glad to see you can reproduce the error, Stan. I am running whatever is default with a PythonXY installation (sorry my windows machine is at work). Strange behavior. The code works fine on my mac (PyQt4

Re: [Matplotlib-users] sharex with different tick labels

2012-09-17 Thread Stan West
From: Daniel Welling [mailto:dantwell...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 16:23 Greetings, all. I have an issue: I have several axes stacked in a column with a common time vector on each x-axis. Each plot is a contour, so overplotting is not an option. In a perfect world, I want