[Matplotlib-users] imshow without scaling of image
Hello, I would like to display an image using pylab without automatic scaling to the default size of the plot window. How can I achieve this ? Greetings, Uwe - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] Displaying several points with different colors
Hi, I'm trying to plot a set of points, each point having a different color. For the moment, I'm trying to do something like that : for indice in range(0, points.shape[0]): pl.plot(points[indice, 0], points[indice, 1], 'o', c = colours[indice,:], hold = True) where points is a numpy array of point and colours is a numpy array of dimension (points.shape[0], 3) With Matlab, something like this would function, but not in matplotlib, it tells me : ValueError: need more than 0 values to unpack I am missing something ? Matthieu - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] [mailinglist] Re: Nonlinear colormap ?
Ken McIvor wrote: > Uwe, > > I don't know the answer to your question, but yesterday Rob Hetland > sent out and email entitled "Creating a non-linear colormap." that > includes example code. That might help you get started. > > Ken > Thanks, but I can not access this article from the mailing lists archive. On sourceforge the newest posting is from 23th feb. Greetings, Uwe - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] Drawing in the plot area.
Hi, All Is it possible to draw any graphical primitives in the plot area using its scale? Let say, I want to plot a filled circle there. Where do I have to look on? Thanks in advance, Alexey - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] [mailinglist] Re: Nonlinear colormap ?
On Mar 9, 2007, at 5:11 AM, Uwe Schmitt wrote: > > Thanks, but I can not access this article from the mailing lists > archive. > On sourceforge the newest posting is from 23th feb. I'm not sure what the problem with SourceForge is. I'll forward you that email off-list. Ken - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Displaying several points with different colors
On 3/9/07, Matthieu Brucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to plot a set of points, each point having a different color. > For the moment, I'm trying to do something like that : > > for indice in range(0, points.shape[0]): > pl.plot(points[indice, 0], points[indice, 1], 'o', c = > colours[indice,:], hold = True) > > where points is a numpy array of point and colours is a numpy array of > dimension (points.shape[0], 3) > > With Matlab, something like this would function, but not in matplotlib, it > tells me : > ValueError: need more than 0 values to unpack Complete examples always help ince we have no way of knowing what the points data structures look like, but I'll hazard a gues. The x and y arguments to "plot" need to be sequences. Ie, something like plot([0.5], [0.5], 'ro') It can be inefficient to plot many separate points this way -- if you have a lot of points, use a matplotlib.collections.RegularPolyCollection or scatter. JDH - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] imshow without scaling of image
On 3/9/07, Uwe Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to display an image using pylab > without automatic scaling to the default size of the plot window. > > How can I achieve this ? If you want displayed image to just be a pixel dump of the actual image use figimage http://matplotlib.sf.net/examples/figimage_demo.py JDH - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Hold-related strangeness, looks like a bug.
On 3/9/07, Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (or matlab for that matter) in my life, I was rather surprised by the > behavior and (mis)understood it as a bug. > > I've always gotten by just fine in pylab without even knowing what > hold did, and simply clearing the figure by hand when needed or just > making a new one. Just to add a few data points -- the default "hold" state can be set in your rc file. It is a property of the current figure and the current axes. In you example, when you set fold before creating the third figure, the setting applued to the current figure (figure 2) but not the next figure. JDH - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Displaying several points with different colors
Complete examples always help ince we have no way of knowing what the points data structures look like, but I'll hazard a gues. The x and y arguments to "plot" need to be sequences. Ie, something like plot([0.5], [0.5], 'ro') It can be inefficient to plot many separate points this way -- if you have a lot of points, use a matplotlib.collections.RegularPolyCollection or scatter. Thank you for your answer :) OK, I'll try to wrap them :|. The best solution would indeed be to paint them all at once, but I didn't manage to do that, even when I looked in the scatter_demo2 example :( What I have is a set of points in a numpy.array - for instance size (2000, 2) -. What I have as well is a nump.array of size (2000, 3). How can I make plot understand that each line of the set points must be painted with the corresponding line in the colour array ? Matthieu - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Displaying several points with different colors
On 3/9/07, Matthieu Brucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I have is a set of points in a numpy.array - for instance size (2000, > 2) -. What I have as well is a nump.array of size (2000, 3). How can I make > plot understand that each line of the set points must be painted with the > corresponding line in the colour array ? You'll probably want to use a regular poly collection, as in the example below. Your array of facecolors can pretty much be whatever you want: from pylab import figure, nx, show, cm from matplotlib.collections import RegularPolyCollection fig = figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111) offsets = nx.mlab.rand(20,2) facecolors = [cm.jet(x) for x in nx.mlab.rand(20)] black = (0,0,0,1) collection = RegularPolyCollection( fig.dpi, numsides=5, # a pentagon rotation=0, sizes=(50,), facecolors = facecolors, edgecolors = (black,), linewidths = (1,), offsets = offsets, transOffset = ax.transData, ) ax.add_collection(collection) show() > Matthieu > > - > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > ___ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > > - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Displaying several points with different colors
Thank you, I think thatthis will solve my problem :) I didn't know this class existed. Matthieu 2007/3/9, John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 3/9/07, Matthieu Brucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I have is a set of points in a numpy.array - for instance size (2000, > 2) -. What I have as well is a nump.array of size (2000, 3). How can I make > plot understand that each line of the set points must be painted with the > corresponding line in the colour array ? You'll probably want to use a regular poly collection, as in the example below. Your array of facecolors can pretty much be whatever you want: from pylab import figure, nx, show, cm from matplotlib.collections import RegularPolyCollection fig = figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111) offsets = nx.mlab.rand(20,2) facecolors = [cm.jet(x) for x in nx.mlab.rand(20)] black = (0,0,0,1) collection = RegularPolyCollection( fig.dpi, numsides=5, # a pentagon rotation=0, sizes=(50,), facecolors = facecolors, edgecolors = (black,), linewidths = (1,), offsets = offsets, transOffset = ax.transData, ) ax.add_collection(collection) show() > Matthieu > > - > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > ___ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > > - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] [mailinglist] Re: Nonlinear colormap ?
I discovered the same problem, so I went looking and found the mailing list properly archived at nabble.com: http://www.nabble.com/Creating-a-non-linear-colormap.-t3362841.html Cheers, Suresh On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Ken McIvor wrote: > On Mar 9, 2007, at 5:11 AM, Uwe Schmitt wrote: >> >> Thanks, but I can not access this article from the mailing lists >> archive. >> On sourceforge the newest posting is from 23th feb. > > I'm not sure what the problem with SourceForge is. I'll forward you > that email off-list. > > Ken > > > - > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > ___ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
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Re: [Matplotlib-users] Bug in aspect ratio for matshow() when using colorbar()
I guess I didn't read the following carefully: "... The aspect ratio of the figure window is that of the array ... Because of how matshow() tries to set the figure aspect ratio to be the one of the array, ..." which would explain the behaviour below. Why the restrictions? Seems one would want to put colorbars, etc in the same figure and so why not behave like imshow() which it calls to make the output. And why the new figure (so no possibility of subplots or overlays)? Just curious ... I guess I will use imshow() directly and modify the axes as suggested before to get the output looking like matshow() Cheers, Suresh On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Suresh Pillai wrote: > If one inserts a colorbar after using matshow, then the matrix plot's aspect > ratio is incorrect altered. Here are 2 cases to compare > > import pylab > matrix = pylab.rand(30,30) > > 1) matshow() before colorbar() > > pylab.matshow(matrix) > pylab.colorbar() > pylab.show() > > The matrix plot is squished in the x-direction while not in the y thus losing > its proper aspect ratio (equal by default). > > 2) imshow() before colorbar() > > pylab.imshow(matrix) > pylab.colorbar() > pylab.show() > > Everthing is okay in this case. > > > Thanks, > Suresh > > - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] Square/Circle markers with transparent faces?
Dear matplotlib gurus, When I use plot(t,x,'rx',t,y,'bs'); in matlab, it produces blue boxes for y, i.e., squares with a blue border and a transparent interior, so that if one of them lies on top of a red x, I can see the red x inside the blue box. The same construction in matplotlib produces blue squares: squares with a black border and a blue interior. I can change the color of the interior with the markerfacecolor or mfc argument, e.g., plot(t,x,'rx'); plot(t,y,'bs',mec='b',mfc='w'); but that produces an opaque white interior which renders invisible any red x it covers up. I can change the transparency of a line with the alpha argument, but there seems to be no corresponding markerfacealpha. Is there a way in matplotlib to get a square marker with a blue border and a transparent interior? Thanks, -- == Office: 0.17 (Golm) Dr. John T. Whelan Phone: +49 331 567 7117 MPI for Gravitational Physics FAX: +49 331 567 7298 (Albert-Einstein Institute) http://www.aei.mpg.de/~whelan/ D-14424 Potsdam [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] == - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Square/Circle markers with transparent faces?
set markerfacecolor (a.k.a. mfc) = 'None' (make sure you include the quotes). -Andrew John T Whelan wrote: > Dear matplotlib gurus, > > When I use > > plot(t,x,'rx',t,y,'bs'); > > in matlab, it produces blue boxes for y, i.e., squares with a blue > border and a transparent interior, so that if one of them lies on top > of a red x, I can see the red x inside the blue box. The same > construction in matplotlib produces blue squares: squares with a black > border and a blue interior. I can change the color of the interior > with the markerfacecolor or mfc argument, e.g., > > plot(t,x,'rx'); > plot(t,y,'bs',mec='b',mfc='w'); > > but that produces an opaque white interior which renders invisible any > red x it covers up. > > I can change the transparency of a line with the alpha argument, but > there seems to be no corresponding markerfacealpha. > > Is there a way in matplotlib to get a square marker with a blue border > and a transparent interior? > > Thanks, > - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to delete figtext without removing my axes??
Jeff Peery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hello, I have an application I'm working on, and I need to remove > figtext() without using a figure.clear(). how can I do this? thanks. When you call figtext, save the return value, and then call set_visible(False) on it to hide it, or delete it from the figure's texts list: ft=fig.figtext(x, y, text) # ... ft.set_visible(False); draw() # or: fig.texts.remove(ft); draw() -- Jouni K. Seppänen http://www.iki.fi/jks - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] [mailinglist] Re: Nonlinear colormap ?
Suresh Pillai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I discovered the same problem, so I went looking and found the mailing > list properly archived at nabble.com: Another useful mailing list archive is gmane.org: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.matplotlib.general http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.matplotlib.devel -- Jouni K. Seppänen http://www.iki.fi/jks - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Bug in aspect ratio for matshow() when using colorbar()
Suresh Pillai wrote: > I guess I didn't read the following carefully: > > "... The aspect ratio of the figure window is that of the array > ... Because of how matshow() tries to >set the figure aspect ratio to be the one of the array, ..." > > which would explain the behaviour below. > > Why the restrictions? Seems one would want to put colorbars, etc in the > same figure and so why not behave like imshow() which it calls to make the > output. And why the new figure (so no possibility of subplots or > overlays)? Just curious ... I guess I will use imshow() directly and > modify the axes as suggested before to get the output looking like > matshow() > Suresh, I think the general answer to your questions is "historical accident". Matshow was contributed a long time ago, and has been updated only minimally to take into account changes made elsewhere. There was even a suggestion that it might not be needed any more, but I think that it can continue to be useful and is worth updating to be an axes method, etc. This is on my growing mental list of things to do, and is probably one of the easier ones. Eric > Cheers, > Suresh > > On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Suresh Pillai wrote: > >> If one inserts a colorbar after using matshow, then the matrix plot's aspect >> ratio is incorrect altered. Here are 2 cases to compare >> >> import pylab >> matrix = pylab.rand(30,30) >> >> 1) matshow() before colorbar() >> >> pylab.matshow(matrix) >> pylab.colorbar() >> pylab.show() >> >> The matrix plot is squished in the x-direction while not in the y thus >> losing >> its proper aspect ratio (equal by default). >> >> 2) imshow() before colorbar() >> >> pylab.imshow(matrix) >> pylab.colorbar() >> pylab.show() >> >> Everthing is okay in this case. >> >> >> Thanks, >> Suresh >> >> > > - > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > ___ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] errorbar() makes a LOT of lines
Hello, When I plot using the errorbar() routine, I get beautiful plots, complete with error bars. Then, when I want to perform manipulations on the data after the fact, I use lines = axes.get_lines() to get at the lines lines[n].get_xdata() and set_xdata() to edit the data etc... The problem is when I do errobar() I get not only the data lines, but also a bunch of small lines for drawing the error bars, and it's very difficult to sort them all out to get at the data of the plot. My question is, is there an easy/bulletproof way to tell if a given line from get_lines() is an error bar or the actual data? Thanks! Jack - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] trouble with rcParams
Hello, I apologize if this message was already posted, it was bounced back to me. I am having some confusion about how best to set my plot settings. Should I use rcParams, or carry around my own class object holding plot() and scatter() settings? I have a wx app and I plot simple x y data. I manually add data values and each time I do my app clears then redraw the canvas. I'm using only plot() scatter() and axhline() in my app. My problem is that my code is a bit messy because I have my own class object that stores all the selected plot settings, ie colors, line widths, etc. I discovered the rcParams and I thought this would really clean up my code a bit. So I could set the rcParams and not have to keep track of my plot() and scatter() settings because matplotlib already does. Several problems happened when I did this: 1) from what I read, I expected a rcParams value to keep if I closed my app then reopened it. But it went back to some default... maybe the matplotlibrc file? are these things separate? 2) when I changed the rcParams for my line style (for example) ALL line styles changed not just the lines in plot(). 3) I didn't see a rcParams object for the scatter() parameters, markers size, style, color, linewidth etc. Is this possible? Am I using rcParams correctly? I want to take advantage of setting my plot() and scatter() settings by using matplotlib instead of having to reset them each time I draw(). Thanks! Jeff - Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business.- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users