Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

2009-09-22 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
John Nagle wrote: > I'm looking for something that can draw simple bar and pie charts > in Python. I'm trying to find a Python package, not a wrapper for > some C library, as this has to run on both Windows and Linux > and version clashes are a problem. > > Here's the list from the Python w

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

2009-09-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-09-18, Chris Withers wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2009-09-16, Alan G Isaac wrote: >> >>> Tkinter is part of the Python standard library: >> >> That doesn't mean you can depend on it being available. It >> doesn't get installed by default on some Linux distros. > > That's 'cos so

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

2009-09-18 Thread Giacomo Boffi
Piet van Oostrum writes: >> Chris Withers (CW) wrote: > >>CW> John Nagle wrote: That's a wrapper for Antigrain ("http://www.antigrain.com/";), which is a C++ library. I'm trying hard to avoid dependencies on binary libraries with limited support. Builds exist only for P

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

2009-09-18 Thread Aaron Watters
On Sep 15, 1:25 pm, John Nagle wrote: > I'm looking for something that can draw simple bar and pie charts > in Python.  I'm trying to find a Python package, not a wrapper for > some C library, as this has to run on both Windows and Linux > and version clashes are a problem. http://skimpygimpy.sou

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

2009-09-18 Thread Piet van Oostrum
> Chris Withers (CW) wrote: >CW> John Nagle wrote: >>> That's a wrapper for Antigrain ("http://www.antigrain.com/";), which is >>> a C++ library. I'm trying hard to avoid dependencies on binary libraries >>> with limited support. Builds exist only for Python 2.4 and 2.5. >CW> Huh? >CW> Ma

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

2009-09-18 Thread Chris Withers
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-09-16, Alan G Isaac wrote: Tkinter is part of the Python standard library: That doesn't mean you can depend on it being available. It doesn't get installed by default on some Linux distros. That's 'cos some linux distros feel the need to destroy python's pack

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

2009-09-18 Thread Chris Withers
John Nagle wrote: That's a wrapper for Antigrain ("http://www.antigrain.com/";), which is a C++ library. I'm trying hard to avoid dependencies on binary libraries with limited support. Builds exist only for Python 2.4 and 2.5. Huh? Matplotlib is a pretty phenomenal charting library, I use

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

2009-09-17 Thread Chris Colbert
by your definitions, Python is just a wrapper around a C library. If none of the solutions work for you, roll your own. On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Giacomo Boffi wrote: > John Nagle writes: > >> gerlos wrote: >>> John Nagle ha scritto: >>> I'm looking for something that can draw simp

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

2009-09-17 Thread Giacomo Boffi
John Nagle writes: > gerlos wrote: >> John Nagle ha scritto: >> >>> I'm looking for something that can draw simple bar and pie charts >>> in Python. I'm trying to find a Python package, not a wrapper for >>> some C library, as this has to run on both Windows and Linux >>> and version clashes are

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

2009-09-17 Thread Giacomo Boffi
Vlastimil Brom writes: > As for BLT, there is Pmw.Blt, the original is written in Tcl. doesn't work (dumps core) on debian linux bug #525860: python-pmw triggers segmentation fault in blt not that blt itself is really OK bug #524149: blt: zooming in a graph produces segmentation fault -

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

2009-09-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-09-16, Alan G Isaac wrote: > Tkinter is part of the Python standard library: That doesn't mean you can depend on it being available. It doesn't get installed by default on some Linux distros. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Wait ... is this a FUN

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

2009-09-16 Thread John Nagle
John Nagle wrote: Ethan Furman wrote: John Nagle wrote: http://home.gna.org/pychart/doc/introduction.html Tried PyChart. ... PyChart generates SVG reasonably well, and needs no external programs when generating SVG. But there's something broken related to font sizes. Larger values

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

2009-09-16 Thread Michel Claveau - MVP
Hi! > Tkinter is part of the Python standard library Yes. But... tkinter is a wrapper to tcl/tk, who is written in tcl. Ok, tcl is given with Python (standard library). Therefore, you sentence: 'Are you really ruling out its use for a "pure Python" solution?' Is well done... ;-) Michel Claveau

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

2009-09-16 Thread Robin Becker
PS: For those people that sugest use Blt. I use Blt a lot in linux and win32 but it is not port (yet) to TK8.5 so, it do not works with py2.6, and is really painfull to build in win32. Beside that, in order to use Blt, you need an instance of Tk running, ergo a XWindows running, an some times it

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

2009-09-16 Thread rober
On Sep 15, 6:28 pm, John Nagle wrote: > John Nagle wrote: > > I'mlookingfor something that can draw simple bar and pie charts > > inPython. I'm trying to find aPythonpackage, not a wrapper for > > some C library, as this has to run on both Windows and Linux > > and version clashes are a problem.

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

2009-09-16 Thread Alan G Isaac
Alan G Isaac wrote: There's John Zelle's graphics.py: http://mcsp.wartburg.edu/zelle/python/ provides basic functionality. On 9/16/2009 12:33 AM, John Nagle wrote: "The package is a wrapper around Tkinter". It runs Tkinter in a separate thread and sends commands to it. Tkinter is part of t

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

2009-09-16 Thread Michel Claveau - MVP
Hi! Perso I use a wrapper to RMCHART. There are two versions : DLL & COM. I prefer COM. Warning : only on Windows's family. @-salutations -- Michel Claveau -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

2009-09-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-09-15, John Nagle wrote: > Tried PyChart. Set up for PNG file format. Got the error > "Exception: Ghostscript not found."This thing just creates > PostScript, then pumps it through GhostScript (anybody remember that?) Remember it? It's an actively maintained program and I use

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

2009-09-15 Thread John Nagle
Ethan Furman wrote: John Nagle wrote: http://home.gna.org/pychart/doc/introduction.html Tried PyChart. Set up for PNG file format. Got the error "Exception: Ghostscript not found."This thing just creates PostScript, then pumps it through GhostScript (anybody remember that?) to get oth

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

2009-09-15 Thread John Nagle
Alan G Isaac wrote: There's John Zelle's graphics.py: http://mcsp.wartburg.edu/zelle/python/ provides basic functionality. "The package is a wrapper around Tkinter". It runs Tkinter in a separate thread and sends commands to it. Pmw.Blt http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~hpl/Pmw.Blt/doc/reference.h

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

2009-09-15 Thread John Nagle
gerlos wrote: John Nagle ha scritto: I'm looking for something that can draw simple bar and pie charts in Python. I'm trying to find a Python package, not a wrapper for some C library, as this has to run on both Windows and Linux and version clashes are a problem. Did you look at matplotlib

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

2009-09-15 Thread Alan G Isaac
There's John Zelle's graphics.py: http://mcsp.wartburg.edu/zelle/python/ provides basic functionality. Pmw.Blt http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~hpl/Pmw.Blt/doc/reference.html pygooglechart You suggested this needs a browser, but not so, you can download the PNGs and use the default viewer to display them

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

2009-09-15 Thread gerlos
John Nagle ha scritto: > I'm looking for something that can draw simple bar and pie charts > in Python. I'm trying to find a Python package, not a wrapper for > some C library, as this has to run on both Windows and Linux > and version clashes are a problem. > Did you look at matplotlib? In the

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

2009-09-15 Thread Ethan Furman
John Nagle wrote: http://home.gna.org/pychart/doc/introduction.html Tried PyChart. Set up for PNG file format. Got the error "Exception: Ghostscript not found."This thing just creates PostScript, then pumps it through GhostScript (anybody remember that?) to get other formats. And does

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

2009-09-15 Thread John Nagle
John Nagle wrote: I'm looking for something that can draw simple bar and pie charts in Python. I'm trying to find a Python package, not a wrapper for some C library, as this has to run on both Windows and Linux and version clashes are a problem. Here's the list from the Python wiki at "http://w

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

2009-09-15 Thread ici
On Sep 15, 8:25 pm, John Nagle wrote: > I'm looking for something that can draw simple bar and pie charts > in Python.  I'm trying to find a Python package, not a wrapper for > some C library, as this has to run on both Windows and Linux > and version clashes are a problem. > > Here's the list fro

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

2009-09-15 Thread Vlastimil Brom
2009/9/15 John Nagle : > I'm looking for something that can draw simple bar and pie charts > in Python.  I'm trying to find a Python package, not a wrapper for > some C library, as this has to run on both Windows and Linux > and version clashes are a problem. > > Here's the list from the Python wik

Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

2009-09-15 Thread John Nagle
I'm looking for something that can draw simple bar and pie charts in Python. I'm trying to find a Python package, not a wrapper for some C library, as this has to run on both Windows and Linux and version clashes are a problem. Here's the list from the Python wiki at "http://wiki.python.org/moin