On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 01:44:41PM -0400, Tony Yu wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Tony Yu <tsy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Announcement: mpltools 0.1
> >> ==========================
> >>
> >> mpltools is a package of tools for matplotlib. For the most part, these
> >> tools are only loosely-connected in functionality, but there are two that
> >> may prove particularly useful:
> >>
> >> Styles and plot2rst
> >> -------------------
> >>
> >> The `style` package provides a simple way to define and reuse
> >> matplotlibrc-like config files. For example, there's an included style that
> >> mimics R's plotting package, ggplot. You can use this style by calling::
> >>
> >> from mpltools import style
> >> style.use('ggplot')
> >>
> >> (Thanks to Huy Nguyen for these settings.)
> >>
> >> The second tool of note is `plot2rst`, which provides a simple way to
> >> generate (Sphinx-flavored) reStructuredText examples from normal python
> >> files. See the Getting Started page and `plot2rst` example for details:
> >>
> >> http://tonysyu.github.com/mpltools/getting_started.html
> >>
> >> http://tonysyu.github.com/mpltools/auto_examples/sphinx/plot_plot2rst.html
> >>
> >>
> >> Other tools
> >> -----------
> >>
> >> This package provides other tools for tweaking colors, layouts, etc. The
> >> easiest way to get started is to look at the example gallery:
> >>
> >> http://tonysyu.github.com/mpltools/auto_examples/index.html
> >>
> >>
> >> Download
> >> --------
> >>
> >> You can grab the 0.1 release on PyPI:
> >>
> >> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mpltools/0.1
> >>
> >> or clone the repo on github:
> >>
> >> https://github.com/tonysyu/mpltools.git
> >>
> >>
> >> Contributors
> >> ------------
> >>
> >> Thanks the following people for reporting bugs and contributing fixes and
> >> enhancements:
> >>
> >> - Alex Arsenovic
> >> - Guillaume Calmettes
> >> - Huy Nguyen
> >> - Sergey Karayev
> >>
> >> Special thanks to Alex, who came up with an early implementation of
> >> stylesheets that started me down this path.
> >>
> >>
> > Neat work, Tony! I especially like the errorfill feature:
> > http://tonysyu.github.com/mpltools/auto_examples/special/plot_errorfill.html#example-special-plot-errorfill-py
> >
> > Ben Root
> >
> >
> Thanks Ben! Like a lot of things in the package, that's a fairly simple
> function, but I just wanted a simple interface to do it.
>
> Cheers,
> -Tony
Would there be any interest in porting some of that functionality into
the main mpl codebase? Like Ben said, that error function is nifty... :)
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