Re: [Matplotlib-users] Computing Simple Statistics from a Histogram

2009-12-02 Thread Matthias Michler
Hi Wayne, you are right all these function use the sample-data and not the pdf / frequency of occurence-histogram, because typically the data is available and not the pdf. Maybe the scipy mailing list could give you a solution to your problem. In case that your freqency of occurence are

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Engineering prefixed units in tick labels

2009-12-02 Thread Matthias Michler
Hi Jason, Hi list, First of all let me say I like the EngFormatter of Jason. Are there plans to incorparate it into matplotlib? I cannot find any indication for this in current svn, but I would like to see the EngFormatter in matplotlib. Therefore I tried to include Jasons proposal into the

[Matplotlib-users] countour plot custom labels

2009-12-02 Thread Momme Butenschön
in the help for the countour plot labeling it says: *fmt*: a format string for the label. Default is '%1.3f' Alternatively, this can be a dictionary matching contour levels with arbitrary strings to use for each contour level (i.e., fmt[level]=string) can

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Engineering prefixed units in tick labels

2009-12-02 Thread John Hunter
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Matthias Michler matthiasmich...@gmx.net wrote: Hi Jason, Hi list, First of all let me say I like the EngFormatter of Jason. Are there plans to incorparate it into matplotlib? I cannot find any indication for this in current svn, but I would like to see the

[Matplotlib-users] basemap099.4 and geos

2009-12-02 Thread xiaoni
Hello, all, I have some problem with basemap and geos, and can not use Basemap。 In the below I list the information about basemap and geos in my computer. Hope someone would help me to figure out why it does not work. Many thanks in adance ! 1) I type: ---from mpl_toolkits.basemap import

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Engineering prefixed units in tick labels

2009-12-02 Thread Matthias Michler
Hi John, Hello list, I added the patch to the tracker (ID 2907509). Kind regards Matthias On Wednesday 02 December 2009 13:40:29 John Hunter wrote: On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Matthias Michler matthiasmich...@gmx.net wrote: Hi Jason, Hi list, First of all let me say I like the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] usetex=True and savefig(eps-file)

2009-12-02 Thread Matthias Michler
Hello list, may be the last message got lost among the lots of mpl-mails. So I'd like to ask you once more for comments. Can anyone confirm this behaviour or should it be due to some wrong configuration on my computer? Kind regards, Matthias On Monday 16 November 2009 15:45:08 Matthias

Re: [Matplotlib-users] usetex=True and savefig(eps-file)

2009-12-02 Thread Michael Droettboom
I can confirm that this works for me, so it is probably some sort of configuration difference. Can you provide the error output? It would be useful to know what specifically it is being denied permission for. Mike Matthias Michler wrote: Hello list, may be the last message got lost among

Re: [Matplotlib-users] usetex=True and savefig(eps-file)

2009-12-02 Thread Darren Dale
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Matthias Michler matthiasmich...@gmx.net wrote: Hello list, I encounter some strange error output including several Permission denied when using usetex=True and saveing eps-pictures. My example is quite easy and the output is attached. (Please notice the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] usetex=True and savefig(eps-file)

2009-12-02 Thread Darren Dale
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Michael Droettboom md...@stsci.edu wrote: I can confirm that this works for me, so it is probably some sort of configuration difference. Can you provide the error output?  It would be useful to know what specifically it is being denied permission for. He had

Re: [Matplotlib-users] usetex=True and savefig(eps-file)

2009-12-02 Thread Matthias Michler
Hi Darren, thanks for your reply. The point is that saving pdf, jpg, etc. works fine but in case I use ps or eps I get the long error output. Therefore I expected a problem in the ps-backend. Kind regards, Matthias On Wednesday 02 December 2009 15:57:31 Darren Dale wrote: On Mon, Nov 16,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] mplot3d: plot_surface() and contour on grid?

2009-12-02 Thread Matthias Michler
Hi Andrew, do you have any idea if the patch (or a part of it) may get a part of matplotlib-svn some day? Kind regards, Matthias On Friday 09 October 2009 23:25:28 Andrew Straw wrote: Matthias Michler wrote: Hello list, I'm not an expert in axes3d, but in case the feature which Nicolas

[Matplotlib-users] Plotting a solid circle on a polar plot

2009-12-02 Thread Brian Larsen
Hello, this seems like it should be easy but I am beating my head on the wall here. I am trying to fill in everything rad=1 in a polar plot (this is a spacecraft orbit trace and the circle is the Earth) and can't seem to get it. from pylab import * from matplotlib.patches import Circle

Re: [Matplotlib-users] basemap099.4 and geos

2009-12-02 Thread Jeff Whitaker
xiaoni wrote: Hello, all, I have some problem with basemap and geos, and can not use Basemap。 In the below I list the information about basemap and geos in my computer. Hope someone would help me to figure out why it does not work. Many thanks in adance ! 1) I type: ---from

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting a solid circle on a polar plot

2009-12-02 Thread Matthias Michler
Hi Brian, does ax.fill_between(np.linspace(0.0, 2*np.pi,100), np.ones(100)) do what you are after? Kind regards Matthias On Wednesday 02 December 2009 16:42:16 Brian Larsen wrote: Hello, this seems like it should be easy but I am beating my head on the wall here. I am trying to fill in

Re: [Matplotlib-users] usetex=True and savefig(eps-file)

2009-12-02 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
Matthias Michler matthiasmich...@gmx.net writes: ./root/article.cls.tex: Permission denied ./root/article.cls: Permission denied ./lost+found/article.cls.tex: Permission denied ./lost+found/article.cls: Permission denied ./root/article.cls.tex: Permission denied ./root/article.cls:

Re: [Matplotlib-users] mplot3d: plot_surface() and contour on grid?

2009-12-02 Thread Reinier Heeres
Hi Matthias, I have a similar patch lying around somewhere, and I will try to apply it soon. I've been terribly busy lately, but I expect some nice mplot3d enhancements in the very near future. Regards, Reinier On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Matthias Michler matthiasmich...@gmx.net wrote: Hi

Re: [Matplotlib-users] basemap099.4 and geos

2009-12-02 Thread Jeff Whitaker
xiaoni wrote: Jeff, Many thanks ! ldd /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/_geoslib.so The results are: linux-gate.so.1 = (0x00cf2000) libgeos_c.so.1 = /usr/local/lib/libgeos_c.so.1 (0x00944000) libgeos-3.1.0.so = /usr/lib/libgeos-3.1.0.so (0x005cd000)

[Matplotlib-users] usetex on Windows 7, hangup without any error

2009-12-02 Thread Marco Müller
Dear matplotlibbers, I am currently trying to convince matplotlib using LaTeX for text processing. Unfortunately, it seems to hang up at some point in the minimal example script from the user's guide (also posted below) without throwing any warning or error. As I am new to python and matplotlib,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] basemap099.4 and geos

2009-12-02 Thread Jeff Whitaker
xiaoni wrote: Jeff, Just to be safe because I am going to operate on the root: 1) ls -l /usr/local/lib: libgeos-3.2.0.so libgeos.so - libgeos-3.2.0.so Xianoi: I'm assuming you installed libgeos 3.2.0rc1 yourself in /usr/local, and nothing is linked against it besides your non-working

[Matplotlib-users] AxesGrid problem.

2009-12-02 Thread Ryan Neve
Hello, I'm trying to use AxesGrid but I'm running into a problem: I can plot a single pcolor plot: [image: 58dFK.png] But when I try to use AxesGrid, my pcolor plot is ending up where I expect my colorbar to be. [image: mEbTA.png] I want to have up to 6 of these plots stacked vertically, sharing

[Matplotlib-users] Installing matplotlib with Mac OS 10.6

2009-12-02 Thread Lisa M Winter
Hello. I am finding it very difficult to install matplotlib with snow leopard. I have the Apple XCODE installed along with numpy (which I have tested and works) and am running the python 2.6 version that comes with the Mac. I have run into the following problems: 1) The diskimage

[Matplotlib-users] Saving a plot to EPS

2009-12-02 Thread Michael Cohen
Hi all, I made a typical plot, and tried to save it to EPS. The resulting file is un-openable in gimp, the gnome thumbnail viewer, evince, and anything else I have tried. Is there any problem saving a plot to EPS at the moment? Cheers Mike

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Installing matplotlib with Mac OS 10.6

2009-12-02 Thread William Carithers
Hi Lisa, I had lots of trouble installing on 10.6 as well. What finally worked for me is to use the (recommended) file make.osx that comes with the matplotlib download. You have to edit that file to point to the versions of Python (you want 2.6) and OSX (you want 10.6). I'm attaching a version

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Saving a plot to EPS

2009-12-02 Thread Michael Cohen
Hi, To add more information. I am trying this on two separate installs of matplotlib 0.99, both using TkAgg as the backend. One produces an unreadable file, the other does produce a readable EPS. However, even in this case, zooming in on the image shows that what is being saved is

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Saving a plot to EPS

2009-12-02 Thread John Hunter
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Michael Cohen mco...@caltech.edu wrote: Hi, To add more information.  I am trying this on two separate installs of matplotlib 0.99, both using TkAgg as the backend.  One produces an unreadable file, the other does produce a readable EPS.  However, even in this

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Installing matplotlib with Mac OS 10.6

2009-12-02 Thread Lisa M Winter
Thanks for the pointers, Bill. I tried installing from source as you suggested, but I am getting the same errors when I try to plot. What backend are you using? Here is what I get when I try using TkAgg: casa98-125-dhcp:.matplotlib lisa$ python simple_plot.py --verbose- helpful

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting curves filled with nonuniform color patch

2009-12-02 Thread Tony S Yu
On Dec 2, 2009, at 3:53 PM, Tony S Yu wrote: Hi, I'm having hard time understanding some of the differences between functions used to plot color patches (not sure what to call them). I'm trying to fill a curve with a nonuniform color patch (like fill or fill_between but the color in

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Installing matplotlib with Mac OS 10.6

2009-12-02 Thread William Carithers
Hi Lisa, Hmm. I also use TKAgg with no problems. Looking at your code, it looks like you are trying the first example in the tutorial. Just to be sure, could you post/send a full listing of your simple_plot.py? Thanks, Bill On 12/2/09 2:01 PM, Lisa M Winter lisa.win...@colorado.edu wrote:

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Installing matplotlib with Mac OS 10.6

2009-12-02 Thread Lisa M Winter
Sure. This is all that it is: from pylab import * plot([1,2,3]) show() On Dec 2, 2009, at 3:42 PM, William Carithers wrote: Hi Lisa, Hmm. I also use TKAgg with no problems. Looking at your code, it looks like you are trying the first example in the tutorial. Just to be sure, could

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Installing matplotlib with Mac OS 10.6

2009-12-02 Thread William Carithers
You're right--that's pretty simple. I ran that exact code and it worked fine. Don't know what to say except that this is above my competence level to dig into the guts of tk. Looks like a problem for John Hunter. Sorry I couldn't help more, Bill On 12/2/09 2:49 PM, Lisa M Winter

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Installing matplotlib with Mac OS 10.6

2009-12-02 Thread Christopher Barker
Lisa M Winter wrote: 1) The diskimage installation: When I open the installer, I am told that I can not install matplotlib on my disk because I do not have a system version of python 2.6. I do not understand this error since I am running the default version (which is 2.6.1). The

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Installing matplotlib with Mac OS 10.6

2009-12-02 Thread Christopher Barker
Christopher Barker wrote: The diskimage is usually built for the python binary supplied by python.org -- that is what the message means by the system version. I tried to submit a patch to change that message a year or two ago, but I guess it never got applied -- maybe I'll try again. I

Re: [Matplotlib-users] adjusting space between axes label and axes

2009-12-02 Thread Jae-Joon Lee
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 11:16 AM, per freem perfr...@gmail.com wrote: is there an existing parameter that just controls the distance between the xticks and the label? As you first tried (with your example with axes_grid), labelpad parameter does what you want. plt.xlabel(xlabel, labelpad=0)

Re: [Matplotlib-users] AxesGrid problem.

2009-12-02 Thread Jae-Joon Lee
This happens because, when the AxesGrid is created, gca() is set to the last axes, which is the last colobar axes. If you use axes_grid toolkit, you'd better not use pyplot command that works on axes. Instead, use axes method directly. For example, instead of pyplot.pcolor(..) , use

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Extending patches.Rectangle class

2009-12-02 Thread Jae-Joon Lee
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Jorge Scandaliaris jorgesmbox...@yahoo.es wrote: How difficult would be to extend the Rectangle class so besides its permimeter it draws lines showing halfs or thirds of the width and height? It depends on your mileage. However, a patch in matplotlib usually

Re: [Matplotlib-users] countour plot custom labels

2009-12-02 Thread Jae-Joon Lee
This would only meaningful if you set contour levels manually. plt.figure() levels = [-1, 0, 1] fmt = {-1.:-1, 0.:0, 1.:+1} CS = plt.contour(X, Y, Z, levels) plt.clabel(CS, inline=1, fontsize=10, fmt=fmt) Regards, -JJ On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Momme Butenschön