Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib._path failed on windows build for Python 2.6

2009-04-10 Thread Michael Droettboom
Lorenzo Di Gregorio wrote: Well, that's exactly the problem: I just can't load some DLLs! import matplotlib._path Traceback (most recent call last): File pyshell#0, line 1, in module import matplotlib._path ImportError: DLL load failed: Die angegebene Prozedur wurde nicht

[Matplotlib-users] Display full number in ticks

2009-04-10 Thread Pim Schellart
Dear Matplotlib users/developers, The default behaviour of matplotlib.pyplot is to display large (e.g. 2452298.7554547498 as a small number 0.25545474980026484 + 2.4522985e6) I would like to be able to do one of the following. - Set the number to be subtracted manually (I know I can just

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Display full number in ticks

2009-04-10 Thread Michael Droettboom
Pim Schellart wrote: Dear Matplotlib users/developers, The default behaviour of matplotlib.pyplot is to display large (e.g. 2452298.7554547498 as a small number 0.25545474980026484 + 2.4522985e6) I would like to be able to do one of the following. - Set the number to be subtracted

[Matplotlib-users] Updating a plot

2009-04-10 Thread Pellegrini Eric
Hello everybody, I would like to create a plot from which I set the x data later. The method set_xdata works but the corresponding plot displays the initial x limits. Is it possible to update the plot automatically in order that the displayed plot has x limits corresponding to the newly set x

[Matplotlib-users] different dimensions for subplots + same x label

2009-04-10 Thread Pau
Hello, is it possible to define the dimensions of a subplot to use 70% of the plot surface and the other one 30%? I'd also like the plots to share the same x label... how to do it? thanks -- This SF.net email is

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Lots of little problems with appearance (Agg vs. GTK, xlim, tick locators)

2009-04-10 Thread Michael Droettboom
Are you using the same version on matplotlib in both places? What are the versions? It seems unlikely these differences would be caused by the backend -- more likely just a version difference. Mike bollweevil wrote: Hello All, I am having lots of very frustrating little problems with

Re: [Matplotlib-users] different dimensions for subplots + same x label

2009-04-10 Thread Pau
http://www.mail-archive.com/matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03134.html I'd like to understand the syntax, though... For the shared x label I found something at the wiki, but it was a bit obscure... 2009/4/10 Pau vim.u...@googlemail.com: Hello, is it possible to define the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Updating a plot

2009-04-10 Thread Andrew Straw
Pellegrini Eric wrote: Hello everybody, I would like to create a plot from which I set the x data later. The method set_xdata works but the corresponding plot displays the initial x limits. Is it possible to update the plot automatically in order that the displayed plot has x limits

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib._path failed on windows build for Python 2.6

2009-04-10 Thread Lorenzo Di Gregorio
On 4/10/09, Michael Droettboom md...@stsci.edu wrote: Lorenzo Di Gregorio wrote: Well, that's exactly the problem: I just can't load some DLLs! import matplotlib._path Traceback (most recent call last): File pyshell#0, line 1, in module import matplotlib._path ImportError: DLL load

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib._path failed on windows build for Python 2.6

2009-04-10 Thread Lorenzo Di Gregorio
Ouch, it looks like MinGW and Python do not fit 100% to each other. Please check out this bug report: http://bugs.python.org/issue3308 Basically MinGW erroneously ships a .lib saying localtime is in MSVCR90.DLL when it isn't. That means there is no link failure but the *pyd* will fail to load

Re: [Matplotlib-users] saving at a specified size

2009-04-10 Thread Michael McNeil Forbes
On 8 Apr 2009, at 12:29 PM, Gideon Simpson wrote: Is there a way to save a figured at a specified size? -gideon I have always specified the figure size first in the figure command: fig_width = 5 # Default unit is inches fig_height = 3 plt.figure(figsize=(fig_width, fig_height))

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basemap Installation Errors

2009-04-10 Thread Andrew Straw
jtamir wrote: Andrew Straw wrote: Does that file .h exist at that location? Yes, __multiarray_api.h is in ~/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/core/include/numpy/ I am installing with prefix set to home directory. Andrew Straw wrote: can you re-send the output including the first

[Matplotlib-users] How do I install Matplotlib 0.98 on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron?

2009-04-10 Thread bollweevil
sudo apt-get install python-matplotlib #This only gets matplotlib-0.91 I have tried downloading the matplotlib-0.98.5.2.tar.gz, but it requires an incredibly large number of prerequisites, and each of the prerequisites requires prerequisites, and I have now wasted hours on this. Please help me