[Matplotlib-users] 3D plot -- rotating axes label text?

2012-07-24 Thread Sami Niemi
Hi, I have not managed to rotate the axes label text when generating a 3D plot, while in 2D everything works just fine. Here's a short snippet to demonstrate: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d')

Re: [Matplotlib-users] 3D plot -- rotating axes label text?

2012-07-24 Thread Benjamin Root
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Sami Niemi s.ni...@ucl.ac.uk wrote: Hi, I have not managed to rotate the axes label text when generating a 3D plot, while in 2D everything works just fine. Here's a short snippet to demonstrate: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d

Re: [Matplotlib-users] axvspan with dates on x-axis

2012-07-24 Thread Luciano Fleischfresser
Still not working. The output looks like this: File NotasFaltasdoisgraficos.py, line 58    ax3.axvspan(*mdates.datestr2num(['05/18/2012', '06/30/2012']), facecolor='g', alpha=0.5)                                                                                                                    

Re: [Matplotlib-users] 3D plot -- rotating axes label text?

2012-07-24 Thread Benjamin Root
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Sami Niemi s.ni...@ucl.ac.uk wrote: Thanks Ben for your explanation. I have filed a feature request: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/1037 Cheers, Sami Sami, I did take a quick peek at the code to assess how much effort it would take to

[Matplotlib-users] Sources and tools for meteo data?

2012-07-24 Thread Vladan Divljak
Hi, I'm a physics student, and got interested in retrieving meteorological data (through Internet) I spent good couple of days to just make a picture of file formats providing this data, sources and tools for reading it, and then give up discouridged by ECMWF and finally EUMETSAT portals. I have

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Sources and tools for meteo data?

2012-07-24 Thread Eric Firing
On 2012/07/24 4:04 PM, Vladan Divljak wrote: Hi, I'm a physics student, and got interested in retrieving meteorological data (through Internet) I spent good couple of days to just make a picture of file formats providing this data, sources and tools for reading it, and then give up

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Sources and tools for meteo data?

2012-07-24 Thread Vladan Divljak
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Eric Firing wrote: It sounds like maybe you missed http://pydap.org. I have it :) I installed it yesterday. On a first sight, it seemed to me like a tool for users interested in making local dap server (I have even considered that, until I run to IDV), but

[Matplotlib-users] Fwd: Sources and tools for meteo data?

2012-07-24 Thread Vladan Divljak
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 4:38 AM, Patrick Marsh wrote: I'm finishing up my PhD in Meteorology. Although I don't use it explicitly use pydap for my research, I do use it to download meteorological data from various dap servers. OK, thanks I'm just browsing datasets at opendap wiki, which I

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Sources and tools for meteo data?

2012-07-24 Thread Vladan Divljak
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Jeff Whitaker jsw...@fastmail.fm wrote: Vladan: You can access current NOAA forecasts (atmosphere and ocean) via opendap from http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov. The netcdf4-python package ( http://netcdf4-python.**googlecode.comhttp://netcdf4-python.googlecode.com)

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Sources and tools for meteo data?

2012-07-24 Thread Benjamin Root
On Tuesday, July 24, 2012, Vladan Divljak wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Eric Firing wrote: It sounds like maybe you missed http://pydap.org. I have it :) I installed it yesterday. On a first sight, it seemed to me like a tool for users interested in making local dap server (I

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Sources and tools for meteo data?

2012-07-24 Thread Jeff Whitaker
On 7/24/12 8:04 PM, Vladan Divljak wrote: Hi, I'm a physics student, and got interested in retrieving meteorological data (through Internet) I spent good couple of days to just make a picture of file formats providing this data, sources and tools for reading it, and then give up