Re: [Matplotlib-users] colorbar tick labeling

2008-11-20 Thread Scott Sinclair
2008/11/21 Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Michael Outhouse wrote: >> I was wondering if it is possible to change the colorbar tick labeling in >> matplotlib from numeric to text. Essentially, I want the colorbar to be a >> qualitative indicator; in the jet scheme, I'd like blue to be labeled >>

Re: [Matplotlib-users] poly_between and time series data

2008-11-20 Thread Eric Firing
Shailesh Kochhar wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to fill the space below a curve where my x-axis is indexed > by time. The matplotlib api documentation and the examples don't touch > on this subject and I haven't had much luck trying a few different > variations. Here's what I've tried so far,

[Matplotlib-users] poly_between and time series data

2008-11-20 Thread Shailesh Kochhar
Hello, I am trying to fill the space below a curve where my x-axis is indexed by time. The matplotlib api documentation and the examples don't touch on this subject and I haven't had much luck trying a few different variations. Here's what I've tried so far, maybe someone can point out what I'

Re: [Matplotlib-users] A wxPython/Matplotlib/Basemap example

2008-11-20 Thread Stef Mientki
Mauro Cavalcanti wrote: > Dear Chris, > > Thank your very much for your prompt reply. > > 2008/11/20 Christopher Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> well, I love sizers -- but they do take a while to wrap your brain around. >> > > I love Python *and* wxPython/wxWidgets -- but having worked s

Re: [Matplotlib-users] A wxPython/Matplotlib/Basemap example

2008-11-20 Thread Mauro Cavalcanti
Dear Chris, Thank your very much for your prompt reply. 2008/11/20 Christopher Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > well, I love sizers -- but they do take a while to wrap your brain around. I love Python *and* wxPython/wxWidgets -- but having worked several years with RAD tools like Visual Basic and

Re: [Matplotlib-users] small bug in slider_demo.py

2008-11-20 Thread Eric Firing
Matthias Michler wrote: > Hello list, > > I observe a small bug in slider_demo.py, which lives in the svn > folder /examples/widgets and can be accessed via > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/_static/plot_directive/mpl_examples/widgets/slider_demo.py > . > > The hovercolor for grey needs to be

Re: [Matplotlib-users] colorbar tick labeling

2008-11-20 Thread Eric Firing
Michael Outhouse wrote: > I was wondering if it is possible to change the colorbar tick labeling in > matplotlib from numeric to text. Essentially, I want the colorbar to be a > qualitative indicator; in the jet scheme, I'd like blue to be labeled > as 'unstable', green as 'neutral', and red as

Re: [Matplotlib-users] A wxPython/Matplotlib/Basemap example

2008-11-20 Thread Christopher Barker
Mauro Cavalcanti wrote: > Well, at least it should! It turns out that the map is correctly > displayed, but it then fills almost the whole parent window, > overlapping the left panel where the notebook with the listbox and the > text control should appear! This illustrates one of the worst (in my >

Re: [Matplotlib-users] wx backup show figure (WAS: general matplotlib usage questions)

2008-11-20 Thread Robin
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:14 PM, John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One more thought -- if you are in pylab mode (so "interactive" is > turned on) if you are making your draw calls through the api, as you > are in this example, you will need to call draw after the plot > commands, eg > > a

[Matplotlib-users] Qestion on Matplotlib GUI backends toolbars

2008-11-20 Thread Mauro Cavalcanti
Dear ALL, Just a simple (?) question on Matplotlib GUI backends toolbars. The Matplotlib examples include a nice sample of programmatically adding a button to a backend toolbar, but I could not find out how to *remove* one or more of the buttons from the default toolbar. Has it be sub-classed? BTW

Re: [Matplotlib-users] plotting labels for each 'artist' in a basemap

2008-11-20 Thread Eric Bruning
I just saw a similar error when trying to plot some text; in my case, basemap wasn't involved. The full error dump: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/text.py in draw(self, renderer) 486 --> 487 for line, wh, x, y in info: 488

[Matplotlib-users] A wxPython/Matplotlib/Basemap example

2008-11-20 Thread Mauro Cavalcanti
Dear ALL, Enclosed is an sample application I put together (partially using wxGlade) that is a first attempt at providing a working example of a GUI frontend with wxPython and Matplotlib/Basemap. The application consists of two panels, separated by a splitter. The left panel has a notebook with t

Re: [Matplotlib-users] wx backup show figure (WAS: general matplotlib usage questions)

2008-11-20 Thread John Hunter
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Christopher Barker >> try wxPython -- it's easy to install and works well. > > Thanks - it does seem nicer (doesn't have the mouse over resizing)... > > However I have one problem where a figure I c

Re: [Matplotlib-users] wx backup show figure (WAS: general matplotlib usage questions)

2008-11-20 Thread John Hunter
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Christopher Barker >> try wxPython -- it's easy to install and works well. > > Thanks - it does seem nicer (doesn't have the mouse over resizing)... > > However I have one problem where a figure I c

[Matplotlib-users] memory leak

2008-11-20 Thread Benoît Zuber
Hi, I have noticed a memory leak when using pylab.pcolor. Here is the code, fa() and fb() do the same thing. The difference is the size of the array which is passed to pcolor. With a large array pcolor leaks but not with a small one. Cheers, Ben import numpy as np import matplotlib matplotlib.use

Re: [Matplotlib-users] wx backup show figure (WAS: general matplotlib usage questions)

2008-11-20 Thread Robin
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Christopher Barker > try wxPython -- it's easy to install and works well. Thanks - it does seem nicer (doesn't have the mouse over resizing)... However I have one problem where a figure I create in a function doesn't show up: # this is how I create a figure in a f

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Save a plot background

2008-11-20 Thread Jeff Whitaker
Hrafnkell Pálsson wrote: > Jeff Whitaker wrote: > >> Hrafnkell: >> >> Had some time this morning, so I used John's method to create a working >> Basemap example: >> >> import matplotlib >> matplotlib.use('Agg') >> from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap >> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt >> >>

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Save a plot background

2008-11-20 Thread Hrafnkell Pálsson
Jeff Whitaker wrote: > > Hrafnkell: > > Had some time this morning, so I used John's method to create a working > Basemap example: > > import matplotlib > matplotlib.use('Agg') > from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap > import matplotlib.pyplot as plt > > # this example shows how to save a

Re: [Matplotlib-users] cbook.is_scalar('foo') is False

2008-11-20 Thread Eric Firing
Cyrille Rosset wrote: > Hello, > > It seems to me there is a bug in matplotlib 0.98.3 (or at least a > change from previous version). > > >>> matplotlib.cbook.is_scalar('foo') > False > > I would expect this to be True (otherwise, > matplotlib.cbook.flatten(['foo']) enters an infinite recur

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Saving to a file in a specified directory (and creating said directory along the way)

2008-11-20 Thread Joshua Lippai
But given the vagueness of what I asked, you're right, os.makedirs was a good suggestion too. Thanks. I think I need to sit down and spend some quality time with the os module over Thanksgiving holiday... Josh On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Joshua Lippai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cbook.mkdir

Re: [Matplotlib-users] general matplotlib usage questions

2008-11-20 Thread Mauro Cavalcanti
Dear Robin, I do agree (although the Python gurus here highly recommend Qt instead). wxPython is well documented and has *plenty* of exemples (much of them truly useful). I have been working hard to developing a scientific desktop application which uses wxPython for its GUI frontend and Matplotli

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Saving to a file in a specified directory (and creating said directory along the way)

2008-11-20 Thread Joshua Lippai
cbook.mkdirs includes a few if-then calls that only make the directory if it doesn't already exist (in fact it actually calls os.makedirs in the function), whereas os.makedirs raises an OSError if the folder I specified already exists. For my purposes, the cbook implementation is more convenient.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Saving to a file in a specified directory (and creating said directory along the way)

2008-11-20 Thread John Hunter
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Christopher Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joshua Lippai wrote: >> Now that just leaves creating the directory. I like >> the cbook.mkdirs implementation a lot better than the non-recursive >> version in os... thanks for the tip! > > why not os.makedirs() ?

Re: [Matplotlib-users] general matplotlib usage questions

2008-11-20 Thread Christopher Barker
Robin wrote: > Now you point it out it is clear that that is what is causing it. I'm > using python.org python on a Mac and it's not clear to me how best to > install Qt - so at the moment Tk is the only working backend I have. try wxPython -- it's easy to install and works well. -Chris -- Ch

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Saving to a file in a specified directory (and creating said directory along the way)

2008-11-20 Thread Christopher Barker
Joshua Lippai wrote: > Now that just leaves creating the directory. I like > the cbook.mkdirs implementation a lot better than the non-recursive > version in os... thanks for the tip! why not os.makedirs() ? -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NO

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Saving to a file in a specified directory (and creating said directory along the way)

2008-11-20 Thread Joshua Lippai
Ah, silly me. I forgot to notice I was using a path variable in the string I was giving to mlab.save. Part A works just fine when I account for that. Now that just leaves creating the directory. I like the cbook.mkdirs implementation a lot better than the non-recursive version in os... thanks for t

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Saving to a file in a specified directory (and creating said directory along the way)

2008-11-20 Thread John Hunter
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Joshua Lippai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > I'm working on a project for which I would like to dump data into a > file in a specified directory (that doesn't necessarily exist yet). I > know matplotlib.mlab.save(fname, X) will only work if I want to save >

[Matplotlib-users] Saving to a file in a specified directory (and creating said directory along the way)

2008-11-20 Thread Joshua Lippai
Hey, I'm working on a project for which I would like to dump data into a file in a specified directory (that doesn't necessarily exist yet). I know matplotlib.mlab.save(fname, X) will only work if I want to save data from an array/list to a file in the current working directory. Is there an easy w

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Hiding a subplot

2008-11-20 Thread John Hunter
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Søren Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a canvas with two subplot.. I want to be able to hide on of the > subplots by pushing a button and letting the remaining subplot fill the > entire canvas. > > If I use the set_visible(True) parameter I correc

[Matplotlib-users] Hiding a subplot

2008-11-20 Thread Søren Nielsen
Hi, I have a canvas with two subplot.. I want to be able to hide on of the subplots by pushing a button and letting the remaining subplot fill the entire canvas. If I use the set_visible(True) parameter I correctly remove one of the subplots.. but the remaining subplot does not fill the canvas..

Re: [Matplotlib-users] general matplotlib usage questions

2008-11-20 Thread Mauro Cavalcanti
Dear ALL, In due time, I intend to compile as many suggestions and tips as possible to eventually create a "How-To" list for the superb Basemap module, like the very useful one which is on the Matplotlib home page. HTH Cheers, 2008/11/20 John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 a

Re: [Matplotlib-users] general matplotlib usage questions

2008-11-20 Thread Robin
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 1:21 PM, John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a recipe on the web site for automatically shifting the left > side of the subplot over to make room for the ylabels > > > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/howto_faq.html#automatically-make-room-for-tick-label

[Matplotlib-users] general matplotlib usage questions

2008-11-20 Thread Robin
Sorry! Forgot to send to the list since the reply-to isn't set properly... Thanks very much for your reply! On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I know what causes this, I saw something similar in the Qt backends > a while back. When the mouse cursor e

Re: [Matplotlib-users] general matplotlib usage questions

2008-11-20 Thread John Hunter
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can use the subplot_adjust button on the toolbar for some degree of > customization. But in general, it can be a somewhat time consuming to get > the layout just right. I think it would be difficult for mpl to determine

Re: [Matplotlib-users] general matplotlib usage questions

2008-11-20 Thread Darren Dale
On Thursday 20 November 2008 06:43:48 am Robin wrote: > Hi, > > I think matplotlib is a terrific tool, and it is a major component of > the open source toolset that has allowed me to stop using Matlab. > > But, whenever it comes to producing publication plots, there are a few > things I always find

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Save a plot background

2008-11-20 Thread Jeff Whitaker
Hrafnkell Pálsson wrote: > > >> This will turn off the rendering of both the background rectangle as >> well as all the ticks and their associated labels, ticklines and >> gridlines. Perhaps Jeff can advise you vis-a-vis the basemap api what >> the equivalent is >> >> > > Ok, I tested your

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Another question

2008-11-20 Thread Jeff Whitaker
Mauro Cavalcanti wrote: > Dear ALL, > > Another (this time possibly quite silly) question: how can I make a > Basemap cover entirely the display area of the GUI backend (ie., > without the top, bottom, left, right spaces)? > > I tried something like: > > self.figure = Figure() > self.figure.subplot

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Another question

2008-11-20 Thread Mauro Cavalcanti
Dear Eric, Thanks for your reply. This is surely not good news -- maybe an automatic shrinking mechanism could be added in a future version of Matplotlib (this would be useful not only with maps, but with other plots as well)? Regards, 2008/11/20 Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Mauro Cavalcan

[Matplotlib-users] general matplotlib usage questions

2008-11-20 Thread Robin
Hi, I think matplotlib is a terrific tool, and it is a major component of the open source toolset that has allowed me to stop using Matlab. But, whenever it comes to producing publication plots, there are a few things I always find challenging - and I'm wondering if I'm doing things wrong. First

[Matplotlib-users] cbook.is_scalar('foo') is False

2008-11-20 Thread Cyrille Rosset
Hello, It seems to me there is a bug in matplotlib 0.98.3 (or at least a change from previous version). >>> matplotlib.cbook.is_scalar('foo') False I would expect this to be True (otherwise, matplotlib.cbook.flatten(['foo']) enters an infinite recursive loop). It used to be (0.98.0): r