[Matplotlib-users] ticks size

2007-04-30 Thread Claudio
Hello. I'm writing for a question about the bar() object. My problem is that I have to write long labels to the ticks to indicate the bins' meaning but they are overlapping one onto another. Is there any way i can handle the size (without having to actually modify the whole system through config

Re: [Matplotlib-users] polar plot with glade

2007-04-30 Thread John Hunter
On 4/30/07, Gonzalo A. de la Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to embed a polar plot into a glade gui. I modified the mpl_with_glade.py example script to have something to start with. No problems with normal plot, but when I try to do polar plot, it fails with the following:

[Matplotlib-users] Histogram orientation

2007-04-30 Thread Scott Sinclair
Hi, The following code fails for me with matplotlib-0.90.0 -- --- import pylab as pl x = pl.randn(1000) pl.hist(x, orientation='horizontal') pl.show() --- This is because Axes.barh() [called

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Histogram orientation

2007-04-30 Thread Eric Firing
Scott, In svn, barh does accept the 'log' kwarg via **kwargs, and your example works correctly. Here is the relevant CHANGELOG entry, after 0.90 was released: 2007-03-03 Change barh to take a kwargs dict and pass it to bar. Fixes sf bug #1669506. I think it was just a matter of

Re: [Matplotlib-users] build error on solaris

2007-04-30 Thread Nadia Dencheva
Try building it with g++. Generally you should be able to set the env variable CC to g++ but I think distutils in python 2.3 does not look at the environment variables and you may need to tweak python2.3/config/Makefile to use g++ instead of Sun's cc. I may be wrong. Later versions of python

Re: [Matplotlib-users] OSError on check of _is_writable_dir(p)

2007-04-30 Thread Darren Dale
On Monday 30 April 2007 02:31:59 pm Eric Firing wrote: One way this could happen is if the .matplotlib directory exists but is not writable; such a case would give the error traceback you see with little clue as to what and where the problem really is. So, __init__.py certainly could be

Re: [Matplotlib-users] rcParams is missing

2007-04-30 Thread jamesk
What does one have to install from the command line to fix this? I'm getting the same error running the basemap examples, after installing matplotlib 0.90 via egg and basemap via installer, and numpy via source. Traceback (most recent call last): File simpletest.py, line 1, in module from

[Matplotlib-users] brocken link in tutorial.html

2007-04-30 Thread Emmanuel
In http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/tutorial.html the following link is brocken : http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/pylab.html#-rc (in Customizing matplotlib part) therefore, it is difficult to get information about rc... -