On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Esmail <ebo...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have two quick questions:
>
> 1. Is it possible to exit a Python program but still have the graph
> window generated by pylot remain visible? Right now the program stops
> when I display the (only) final graph. When I close this window, the
> program exits. I would like to finish the program, but have the graph
> stay visible if that's possible (I suppose I could save a graphics
> file and then display it - but that's a bit different)
>
> 2. Is it possible to update graphs somewhat efficiently during the
> runtime of the program? Say I have a loop that generates value to
> be plotted. Right now I collect them and plot them at the end, ie
>
> values = []
> for i in range(0, 200):
>     values.append(i)
>
> various pyplot commands to plot the values list.
>
> I wonder if I could have the graph update during each iteration instead
> giving me an up-to-date view of the data. (The above is a super simplified
> example of course)


Try this:

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/animation/simple_anim_gtk.html

(If not gtk, there are other examples there.)

Ryan

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Ryan May
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma
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