Re: [Matplotlib-users] pylab

2009-08-11 Thread Sebastian Haase
Thanks for the info -- very informative -- maybe this post could be somehow added or linked to from http://www.scipy.org/PyLab -- Sebastian Haase On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Eric Firingefir...@hawaii.edu wrote: marc desmarais wrote: Are there still two pylabs?  Are the following two web

Re: [Matplotlib-users] pylab

2009-08-11 Thread Tom K.
Sebastian Haase-3 wrote: Thanks for the info -- very informative -- maybe this post could be somehow added or linked to from http://www.scipy.org/PyLab -- Sebastian Haase Sebastian - I've done as you suggest... I added a link to this post on nabble - do you think there is a better URL

[Matplotlib-users] Format 3D tick labels wxagg backend

2009-08-11 Thread dek
Hello, Has anyone formatted 3D major tick labels in wxagg backend successfully or can tell me what my problem might be: majorFormatter = matplotlib.ticker.FormatStrFormatter('%g') axes.w_xaxis.set_major_formatter(majorFormatter) axes.w_yaxis.set_major_formatter(majorFormatter)

Re: [Matplotlib-users] pylab

2009-08-11 Thread John [H2O]
Just an thought regarding the whole PyLab concept... import this The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. [snip]... If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea. If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good

Re: [Matplotlib-users] pylab

2009-08-11 Thread John Hunter
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:28 PM, John [H2O]washa...@gmail.com wrote: Just an thought regarding the whole PyLab concept... If you would like to frame this as a FAQ Should I import * from pylab? and post it as a rest svn diff against doc/faq/howto_faq.rst, I would be happy to include this on the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] building matplotlib from source in Linux

2009-08-11 Thread John Hunter
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:09 PM, James Battatjbat...@mit.edu wrote: I'm installing matplotlib from source on a linux machine (system details below).  The module builds and installs without error.  I can import pylab successfully from an interactive python prompt.  When I plot data, however,

[Matplotlib-users] Graph title trepassing bounds

2009-08-11 Thread Gewton Jhames
Hello everyone, my graph's title is been greater than the size of the graph. There's a way to get the width of the graph's title so I can increase the width of the graph based on it? Thanks. -- Let Crystal Reports handle

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Graph title trepassing bounds

2009-08-11 Thread John Hunter
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Gewton Jhamesgjha...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, my graph's title is been greater than the size of the graph. There's a way to get the width of the graph's title so I can increase the width of the graph based on it? There probably is a way, but it might

Re: [Matplotlib-users] re grid non regular data, then mask for continents / artifacts

2009-08-11 Thread John [H2O]
Impatiently I somewhat double posted (though, actually, I thought this was a better list than scipy for the question). Regardless... the conversation is mostly here: http://www.nabble.com/2d-interpolation%2C-non-regular-lat-lon-grid-td24909685.html -- View this message in context:

[Matplotlib-users] Building matplotlib on os x

2009-08-11 Thread Michael Hearne
Hello - I am attempting to build matplotlib from source on os X, and getting an error about a shared library being the wrong architecture. The confusing thing is that the call to g++ has two settings for arch: g++ -arch i386 -arch ppc... The error I get is: ld: in

Re: [Matplotlib-users] problem with basemap/quiver with latest versions of basemapmpl

2009-08-11 Thread P.R.
Ok, I upgraded to numpy 1.30 and the problem still showed up... Im still getting those strange diagonal line defects. (looks as if some of the edge arrow polygons are being clipped/drawn/closed improperly thus 'dragged' across the plot area???) I attached my x,y,u,v arrays... Here's my basemap

Re: [Matplotlib-users] problem with basemap/quiver with latest versions of basemapmpl

2009-08-11 Thread Jeff Whitaker
P.R. wrote: Ok, I upgraded to numpy 1.30 and the problem still showed up... Im still getting those strange diagonal line defects. (looks as if some of the edge arrow polygons are being clipped/drawn/closed improperly thus 'dragged' across the plot area???) I attached my x,y,u,v arrays...

Re: [Matplotlib-users] problem with basemap/quiver with latest versions of basemapmpl

2009-08-11 Thread P.R.
Jeff, Nevermind... I figured out the problem... It appears that the grads mpl interface (pygrads) wasn't creating an appropriate mask for the data. All of the '-9.99e+8' values that correspond to 'undefined' points weren't being masked out, and were thus causing quiver to freak out try to draw