[Matplotlib-users] Inset plot with a previously draw plot

2015-10-29 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
Hi, I have a previously draw plot that I want to place as an inset in another figure. I've tried with passing the previously drawn axes as the `axes` parameter to the `add_axes` method of the figure, and also tried using the `set_axes` method of the new axes, without success: I get the new inset

[Matplotlib-users] Sorry, could not import Basemap in http://matplotlib.org/users/screenshots.html

2013-01-15 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
Hi: I just want to report that in the screenshots section of the website (http://matplotlib.org/users/screenshots.html), in the Basemap demo (http://matplotlib.org/users/screenshots.html#basemap-demo) section, instead of the plot there is a message saying Sorry, could not import Basemap.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Clipped colorbar values in matshow

2013-01-14 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Paul Hobson pmhob...@gmail.com wrote: Does the call to tight_layout() fig your problem? Actually, I just realized that is not tight_layout() what fixed my problem, but using ax.matshow instead of plt.matshow. The following code produces an unclipped colorbar: A

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plot data from file while is file is constantly updated

2012-11-08 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
If you are in a Linux machine, you can use `inotify`: Inotify (inode notify) is a Linux kernel subsystem that acts to extend filesystems to notice changes to the filesystem. It seems that there are a few option to use this from Python: http://pyinotify.sourceforge.net/

Re: [Matplotlib-users] default backend on 1.2.0rc1 and master

2012-10-17 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:41 AM, Eric Firing efir...@hawaii.edu wrote: sudo apt-get build-dep python-matplotlib It might pull in more than you really want, but it will certainly include gui toolkits. If you want to avoid installing all the packages that you get with the `apt-get build-dep

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib in Latex documents

2012-04-25 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Peter Würtz pwue...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm having trouble when creating plots for use in latex documents. I use the following setup (under Ubuntu, in case that matters): params = {'backend': 'Agg', 'ps.usedistiller' : 'xpdf', 'text.usetex'

Re: [Matplotlib-users] latex bug/feature in labels?

2012-03-16 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Will Grainger willgrain...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but xlabel (and ylabel) doesn't honour the rcParams['font.size'] parameters. I think xlabel and ylabel honor rcParams['axes.labelsize']. Alejandro.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Error when saving as PDF using $\alpha$ and 'text.usetex':True

2012-03-09 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Jouni K. Seppänen j...@iki.fi wrote: Alejandro Weinstein alejandro.weinst...@gmail.com writes: TypeError: unicode argument expected, got 'str' I am using MPL verion 1.2.x (built from commit 396a6446). That reminds me of a problem fixed in commit 680edf7, so

[Matplotlib-users] Error when saving as PDF using $\alpha$ and 'text.usetex':True

2012-03-06 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
Hi: I am getting an error when I save a figure as PDF with a particular configuration and when I use a greek latex leter (say $\alpha$) as a ylabel. The following code illustrates the problem. ### import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import matplotlib as

Re: [Matplotlib-users] cycling mechanism

2012-01-04 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
2) I also have the need to implement line-style cycling for bw publications. What about also grey level cycling for bw? Sometimes for bw it looks better to use different gray levels rather than different line-styles. See this for an example:

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Incorrect latex rendering for \hat{x} and \vec{x}

2011-12-15 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Peter Liebetraut peter.liebetr...@imtek.uni-freiburg.de wrote: Hi Latex rendering looks OK here. In [9]: matplotlib.__version__ Out[9]: '1.0.0' Just updated to the last version from github, and now works OK.

[Matplotlib-users] Incorrect latex rendering for \hat{x} and \vec{x}

2011-12-07 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
Hi: I am getting incorrect renderings when using \hat{x} or \vec{x}. The following code # import matplotlib.pylab as plt plt.axes([0.1, 0.15, 0.8, 0.75]) plt.plot(range(10)) plt.xlabel(r'$\hat{y}$ $\vec{x}$ $x^2 + y^2$', fontsize=20)

Re: [Matplotlib-users] I get a warning when running code with ipython, but not with python

2011-11-15 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Michael Droettboom md...@stsci.edu wrote: This looks like a bug for the IPython folks.  If you make a file containing only import gtk and %run that file, one gets the same error. It is a bug of IPython 0.11. The problem is solved in 0.12. See

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to switch to v1.1.0 after upgrade

2011-11-15 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Y.Wu ywu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, all I have installed v1.1.0 from source code at : /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/matplotlib But whenever I am using python test.py, it still refers to the old v0.99. could you please tell me how to update to the new

[Matplotlib-users] I get a warning when running code with ipython, but not with python

2011-11-13 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
Hi: I just installed matplolib from source code, and Ipython using pip, in Ubuntu 11.10. When I run this code ### foo.py import matplotlib.pyplot as plt plt.plot([1,2,3,4]) plt.ylabel('some numbers') plt.show() ## in ipython, I get the following

[Matplotlib-users] No zdata in motion_notify_event when using a 3D plot

2011-11-08 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
Hi: I am trying to use the event associated to motion_notify_event in a 3D plot, and I found that the event does not have the zdata property. The following code illustrate the problem: ## from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

[Matplotlib-users] Can't render the \dagger LaTex symbol

2011-09-01 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
Hi: I am having problems with the \dagger LaTex symbol. The following code import matplotlib.pyplot as plt plt.plot([1,2,3]) plt.title(r'$ \dagger $') plt.show() produce a long Traceback that ends in File /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/mathtext.py, line 1997, in raise_error raise

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Animating selected plot elements

2011-04-05 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Alejandro Weinstein alejandro.weinst...@gmail.com wrote: Any advice on how to fix the problem? Or may be this way is obsolete, but all the animation examples I've found so far don't consider a fixed background. Adding import matplotlib matplotlib.use('GTKAgg

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Animating selected plot elements

2011-04-05 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Drew Frank ajfr...@ics.uci.edu wrote: This will not address your immediate problem with update_line not being called, but if you want to animate something over a non-blank background you will soon run into another issue.  I posted here about that issue a while

[Matplotlib-users] Animating selected plot elements

2011-04-04 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
Hi: I am trying to use this code http://tinyurl.com/44zcpfk (Scipy cookbook) to make an animation where the background is fix and only a line is updated. However, after executing the code, I only get a window with an empty plot. Some debugging shows that the update_line function is not being

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Stair plot

2011-02-10 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Paul Ivanov pivanov...@gmail.com wrote: no need for interpolation - just use plt.step: Thanks! Just what I need it. Any reason for the step function not appearing in the main Matplotlib page (http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/)? Alejandro.

[Matplotlib-users] Stair plot

2011-02-09 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
Hi: Any suggestion for making a stair plot in Matplotlib (like the stairs function in Matlab)? The attached figure is the output of the following Matlab commands: x = 0:10; stairs(x); I guess it is a matter of using a zero-order hold interpolation rather than linear interpolation between the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Using legend with a stem plot

2011-01-06 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Benjamin Root ben.r...@ou.edu wrote:   To prevent it from getting lost, could you please file a report on our bug tracker? Done: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailaid=3152447group_id=80706atid=560720 I think the right behavior should mimic what Matlab

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Using legend with a stem plot

2011-01-06 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Jae-Joon Lee lee.j.j...@gmail.com wrote: I think this should be more like a feature request (rather than a bug). Legend only support simple artists such as lines/patches/collections. I disagree about this not being a bug. I understand that it can be difficult to

[Matplotlib-users] Using legend with a stem plot

2010-12-17 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
Hi: I want to add a legend to a stem plot with two plots. The basic code is: ### from pylab import * x = [1,2,3,4,5] y1 = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] y2 = [5, 4, 3, 2, 1] subplot(211) plot(x, y1, 'rx-') plot(x, y2, 'bx-') legend(('a', 'b')) subplot(212) stem(x, y1, 'r') stem(x,y2,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Use a marker symbol in a text string

2010-11-24 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Nicolas Bigaouette nbigaoue...@gmail.com wrote: Why not just use latex? plt.text(0.05, 0.95, rThis is the square marker: $\Box$ Subscript: $_\Box$ superscript: $^\Box$, fontsize=20) It produces the following error: Exception in Tkinter callback Traceback (most

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Use a marker symbol in a text string

2010-11-24 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Gökhan Sever gokhanse...@gmail.com wrote: As I have learnt from Michael Droettboom, you can simply use unicode characters with a supported font set: In my setup I prefer DejaVu-Sans. First install these fonts into your system, then edit your matplotlibrc

[Matplotlib-users] Use a marker symbol in a text string

2010-11-23 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
Hi: I want to use the symbol corresponding to a marker in a text annotation. Something like textstr = 'This is the square marker: ?' ax.text(0.05, 0.95, textstr) Is there something I can place where the question mark is above to get the actual square (or any other of the symbols you can use as

[Matplotlib-users] RuntimeError('main thread is not in main loop', ) after terminating a multithread program

2009-03-11 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
Hi: I have a multithread program. One of the thread is using MPL to plot some data. Everything works as expected, until the moment I terminate the program. When the main thread terminate, I start getting this message: Exception exceptions.RuntimeError: RuntimeError('main thread is not in main

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Bug in ubuntu intrepid

2008-12-17 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Alejandro Weinstein alejandro.weinst...@gmail.com wrote: Is anybody aware of the MPL bug on Ubuntu intrepid? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/matplotlib/+bug/299381 The problem is caused by outdated *.pyc files. The solution is sudo python -c 'import

[Matplotlib-users] Bug in ubuntu intrepid

2008-12-15 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
Hi: Is anybody aware of the MPL bug on Ubuntu intrepid? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/matplotlib/+bug/299381 Basically you get a warning when import pylab. Beside the warnings things seems to work OK. Is there a workaround for this? Regards, Alejandro.

[Matplotlib-users] Make markers in legend to appear only once

2008-12-01 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
Hi: I am plotting using markers, in a similar way than this example: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/legend_demo2.html As you can see in the example above, the markers in the legend appear twice: 'green circle' 'green circle' oscillatory. Is it possible to make the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Make markers in legend to appear only once

2008-12-01 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Manuel Metz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use the keyword numpoints in the legend method: Thank you! It did the trick. Now how you conclude that from the documentation is a mystery: From the docs: numpoints: integer The number of points in the legend