David Huard wrote:
> Hi Dirk,
> 
> If you haven't already done so, look at the numpy.ma <http://numpy.ma/> 
> module. It provides a masked array object that deals gracefully with 
> missing values. To the best of my knowledge, most matplotlib functions 
> understand masked arrays and deal with it accordingly, exception made of 
> those requiring a full matrix (such as contour). Take a look at 

contour handles masked arrays correctly, as far as I know; contourf has 
some bugs in its masked array handling, but depending on the type and 
distribution of voids, it may still be good enough.

pcolor and image have no problems with masked arrays.

Eric

> examples/image_masked.py. Also, in the Basemap toolkit, there is at 
> least one example showing how to plot a masked array on a map.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> David

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