[Matplotlib-users] Newbie: How to control space between sets of bars in bar chart

2011-01-12 Thread Christopher Brewster
My apologies in advance if this is obvious. I have a bar chart with three sets of figures and I would like some space between the three sets. I cannot seem to find anything in the manual or online which explains how to separate sets of data. I tried adding a blank (white bar) with 0 data and

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Mac OS X 10.6 dmg install (Tim Gray)

2010-06-25 Thread Christopher Brewster
I have followed these instructions to (almost ) the letter. Only difference is that python was already installed at /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin/python I also re-installed numpy. Still no good with always the same problem - the absence of numpy.core.ma Any suggestions?

[Matplotlib-users] most recent install instruction for Mac OS

2010-06-24 Thread Christopher Brewster
Can someone point me to up to date installation instructions for Mac OS (10.6.4, python 2.6.4)? Every route I pursue hits a dead end. - if I install from dmg files on the matplotlib, it is not visible to my python installation (I think it installs to the OSX native python). - if I install via

[Matplotlib-users] installation problems

2010-06-12 Thread Christopher Brewster
On an iMac running 10.6.3, python 2.6.4 I have installed numpy and then matplotlib using 'pip'. The message in both cases was that the install was successful. 'import matplotlib' does not cause error messages. 'from pylab import randn, hist' gets a traceback with the message ImportError: No