Re: [Matplotlib-users] installing matplotlib on mac os X with the *.dmg file

2012-08-18 Thread Timothy Duly
Thank you for the information Paul and Felix. I have followed your advice and installed a package manager, pip. However, running: sudo pip install matplotlib did not work. Instead, the key was: sudo pip install git+ https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib.git#egg=matplotlib-dev worked well,

[Matplotlib-users] Plot on top of tiled of calendar months

2012-08-18 Thread reckoner
Hi, I would like to plot on a monthly calendar for many months going back several years. This corresponds to the "month" view on a calendar (like in google calendar) as shown here: http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/monthly.html Thus, I would like to have a tiled graph where every tile on

[Matplotlib-users] FancyBBox set_width

2012-08-18 Thread Peter Combs
Hi all, I'm trying to have a Text object with a fancy box, as in this example: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/mpl_examples/pylab_examples/fancybox_demo2.py. However, the key difference is that I want to have the box (in my case, I'm interested in an RArrow) be a specified width (in units of the