Re: [Matplotlib-users] Where to search with mailing list archive

2011-05-18 Thread Gerald Storer
There's a heap of searches - the old.nabble one listed. http://old.nabble.com/matplotlib---users-f2906.html plus http://www.mail-archive.com/matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net/info.html http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.matplotlib.general http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/html/matplotlib

Re: [Matplotlib-users] show density in scatter

2011-05-18 Thread Neal Becker
Eric Firing wrote: > On 05/18/2011 09:01 AM, Neal Becker wrote: >> Using scatter, it seems less probably (numerous) points show just as much as >> more probable points. Can anyone suggest a good way to emphasize the more >> probable points? > > This is what hexbin is for, although it takes the a

Re: [Matplotlib-users] show density in scatter

2011-05-18 Thread Eric Firing
On 05/18/2011 09:01 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > Using scatter, it seems less probably (numerous) points show just as much as > more probable points. Can anyone suggest a good way to emphasize the more > probable points? Another idea: set alpha to something less than 1, maybe something like 0.3; the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] show density in scatter

2011-05-18 Thread Justin McCann
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > Using scatter, it seems less probably (numerous) points show just as much > as > more probable points. Can anyone suggest a good way to emphasize the more > probable points? > > I was thinking maybe the easy way is just scale down the markers

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Re: [Matplotlib-users] show density in scatter

2011-05-18 Thread Eric Firing
On 05/18/2011 09:01 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > Using scatter, it seems less probably (numerous) points show just as much as > more probable points. Can anyone suggest a good way to emphasize the more > probable points? This is what hexbin is for, although it takes the additional step of showing po

[Matplotlib-users] show density in scatter

2011-05-18 Thread Neal Becker
Using scatter, it seems less probably (numerous) points show just as much as more probable points. Can anyone suggest a good way to emphasize the more probable points? I was thinking maybe the easy way is just scale down the markers. Drawback may be too many points plotted. Colors would be n

Re: [Matplotlib-users] latex just produces gibberish

2011-05-18 Thread Michael Droettboom
Sounds like you don't have the fonts installed and/or they are not getting found. You can try removing the font cache, which will force a research. (~/.matplotlib/fontList.cache) If that doesn't work, in your matplotlibrc add the line: verbose.level: debug-annoying This will print out a

Re: [Matplotlib-users] latex just produces gibberish

2011-05-18 Thread Neal Becker
Michael Droettboom wrote: > Are you setting text.usetex to True, or using matplotlib's built-in > mathtext rendering? > > Can you attach an image? I've seen enough of these failure cases that I > can often guess by looking at it ;) > > Mike > > On 05/18/2011 09:21 AM, Neal Becker wrote: >> Darr

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Where to search with mailing list archive

2011-05-18 Thread Benjamin Root
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Yue Chao wrote: > Thank you Mark! > > If there is no search engine, we'll not make full use of FAQ history... > > Chao > > There is a search feature provided by nabble here: http://old.nabble.com/matplotlib---users-f2906.html Don't know how good it is, but it do

Re: [Matplotlib-users] latex just produces gibberish

2011-05-18 Thread Michael Droettboom
Are you setting text.usetex to True, or using matplotlib's built-in mathtext rendering? Can you attach an image? I've seen enough of these failure cases that I can often guess by looking at it ;) Mike On 05/18/2011 09:21 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > Darren Dale wrote: > >> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at

Re: [Matplotlib-users] terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Py::AttributeError'

2011-05-18 Thread Michael Droettboom
Can you provide a stack trace -- either a Python one, or a gdb one? Mike On 05/18/2011 03:25 AM, Mark Hepburn wrote: > Hi, > > I have a web application using matplotlib which is unpredictably > crashing with the error message from the subject. It seems to be > happening in ft2font, but I can't b

[Matplotlib-users] Built-in color list (or color bar) for plot making?

2011-05-18 Thread Yue Chao
Dear all, Is there built-in color list for ploting making in matplotlib? Say I want to plot barplot: rect1=plt.bar(ind,np.array(data[1][1:col]),Width,color='b',edgecolor='none') rect2=plt.bar(ind+Width,np.array(data[2][1:col]),Width,color='g',edgecolor='none') rect3=plt.bar(ind+Width*2,np.array(d

Re: [Matplotlib-users] latex just produces gibberish

2011-05-18 Thread Neal Becker
Darren Dale wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Neal Becker wrote: >> I have an old fedora 11 system. When I try to use latex math (e.g., >> $\mu=2$), it gives no error, but seems to produce gibberish (just ordinary >> ascii chars) in my pdf output. >> >> Any ideas how to debug? > > Try u

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Where to search with mailing list archive

2011-05-18 Thread Yue Chao
Thank you Mark! If there is no search engine, we'll not make full use of FAQ history... Chao 2011/5/18 Mark Hepburn > Archive is here (just because I was on that page earlier today): > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=matplotlib-users > > I'm not sure about a dedicated s

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Where to search with mailing list archive

2011-05-18 Thread Mark Hepburn
Archive is here (just because I was on that page earlier today): http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=matplotlib-users I'm not sure about a dedicated search though sorry. On 18 May 2011 19:51, Yue Chao wrote: > Dear all, > > Just a very stupid question, where I can find the a

[Matplotlib-users] Where to search with mailing list archive

2011-05-18 Thread Yue Chao
Dear all, Just a very stupid question, where I can find the archive of our mailing list and is there a search function? cheers, Chao -- *** Chao YUE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE-IP

[Matplotlib-users] terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Py::AttributeError'

2011-05-18 Thread Mark Hepburn
Hi, I have a web application using matplotlib which is unpredictably crashing with the error message from the subject. It seems to be happening in ft2font, but I can't be certain at this stage that it's only occurring there (although since isolating it via logging statements, every time it has oc