[Matplotlib-users] New version of "scipy lecture notes"

2015-09-28 Thread Gael Varoquaux
Dear Pythonistas, We have just released a new version of the "scipy lecture notes": http://www.scipy-lectures.org/ These are a consistent set of materials to learn the core aspects of the scientific Python ecosystem, from beginner to expert. They are written and maintained by a set of volunteers

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Single color transparent colormap

2014-11-19 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:20:23AM -0500, Benjamin Root wrote: Notice that the colormap looks fine for the colorbar because it isn't using imshow() under the hood. As a short-term workaround (I work with Loic, and I it would help me a lot if his problem was solved with a hack), can we leverage

[Matplotlib-users] [ANN] FEMTEC: Trac on open source scientific software

2011-01-30 Thread Gael Varoquaux
Hi list, This is just a note that an extra track at FEMTEC, a conference for computational methods in engineering and science, is open for open source scientific software. The organisers have a taste for Python, so if you want to submit a paper on numerical methods with Python, this is an

[Matplotlib-users] [Ann] EuroScipy 2011 - Call for papers

2011-01-20 Thread Gael Varoquaux
= Announcing EuroScipy 2011 = - The 4th European meeting on Python in Science - **Paris, Ecole Normale Supérieure, August 25-28 2011** We are happy to announce

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Simple animation with Qt4 backend

2010-11-21 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:58:42AM -0500, Darren Dale wrote: Apparently, to make it work with the Qt4 backend, one simply has to add: QtGui.QApplication.processEvents() to the method 'FigureCanvasQt.draw_idle' (matplotlib/backends/backend_qt4.py). , discussion of why processEvents was

Re: [Matplotlib-users] mplot3d - ploting 3d triangular mesh model - need help

2010-11-12 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 07:49:49AM +, Ian Thomas wrote: please is there any one can tell me if it's possible in mplot3d to plot 3d triangular mesh model with a colormap different from �the Z variable. I don't find example in tutorial for this. thanks. No,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problem saving a plot in OSX

2010-03-23 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 09:58:11AM -0700, Christopher Barker wrote: You also might try a different back-end. I'm not sure what EPD sets as the default but there are sometimes odd Tk issues. EPD should support wxPython (wxAgg), and maybe the macosx back-end. I believe EPD's default is wxAgg.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] mplot3d stays?

2010-02-25 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:16:40AM +0100, Friedrich Romstedt wrote: 2010/2/25 Eric Firing efir...@hawaii.edu: Is it time for some re-thinking of the approach to 3-D?  I am a bystander, but I have the uneasy sense that trying to turn mplot3d into a first-class 3-D plotting tool may be a

Re: [Matplotlib-users] plot(x,y) Trouble?

2010-02-21 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 03:52:41PM +, Andrea Gavana wrote: On 21 February 2010 15:44, Alan G Isaac wrote: On 2/21/2010 10:29 AM, Wayne Watson wrote: plot(2.8,3.4) doesn't work in my program Why should it? I believe it should. Plot takes once or two *sequences* of numbers as

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib conflicts with IDLE

2010-02-07 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 09:59:04AM +0100, Pierre Raybaut wrote: Two screenshots to prove it :-) Running an example script including pdb.set_trace() in the external console: http://spyderlib.googlegroups.com/web/pdb_test.png Executing the same script from a Python interpreter within the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib conflicts with IDLE

2010-02-06 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 11:27:50AM +0100, Pierre Raybaut wrote: Why not? I use Ipython on OS-X all the time, and it is fabulous, really fabulous. Also, I would rather stick with IDLE. It is the perfect IDE for non-CS students who shouldn't be spending their time on the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] feature discussion/request: a 'layout' command for matplotlib

2010-01-10 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 07:32:27AM -0800, Andrew Straw wrote: This first is mplsizer, based on the wx layout model, and works live (with a figure open in a GUI) as well as for saving to disk. See the demo directory for, well, some demos. I haven't been using this too much lately, but it still

Re: [Matplotlib-users] feature discussion/request: a 'layout' command for matplotlib

2010-01-10 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 07:54:18AM -0800, Andrew Straw wrote: Any interest in merging this in as an mpl_toolkit? It already is. :) Me dig hole and hide. Any interest in writing docs and advertising it? Well, first I'll use it :). I can advertise if I and up using it a lot. Gaël

[Matplotlib-users] [Ann] EuroScipy 2010

2009-12-13 Thread Gael Varoquaux
== Announcing EuroScipy 2010 == --- The 3rd European meeting on Python in Science --- **Paris, Ecole Normale Supérieure, July 8-11 2010** We are happy

Re: [Matplotlib-users] mplot3d: bar3d + colormap somehow?

2009-11-12 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 08:56:49PM +0100, qu...@gmx.at wrote: I would like to make a mplot3d.bar3d plot where the colour indicates the value of the element. Like: negative values blue, positive red, zero green. From what i see i can only give all bars the same color ... Is there a way around

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Subaxes

2009-08-08 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 10:53:13AM -0400, Jae-Joon Lee wrote: The thread below might be helpful. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.matplotlib.general/16373 This will work as far as you keep the aspect=auto. Also, if you're using matplotlib 0.99rc version, or matplotlib from svn,

[Matplotlib-users] Subaxes

2009-08-06 Thread Gael Varoquaux
Given an axes instance ax1, I would like to create another axes instance ax2, embedded in the first one with a given rectangle, in ax1 coordinates. For instance, I might want to create axes ax2 that sit in the top left corner of ax1, with height and width 0.25 times those of ax1. What is the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [matplotlib-devel] What would you like to see in a book about Matplotlib?

2009-02-02 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 03:47:32PM +, Chris Walker wrote: One of the things I liked about Gael's article was its discussion of threading - separating the gui from the calculations from the data acquisition. Thanks. Be aware that this is a rats nest, though, as threading is the best way to

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [IPython-user] 'pause' in order to cycle though a bunch of plots

2008-11-14 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:12:14AM -0800, Benjamin J. Racine wrote: I use pause in matlab to cycle through an interactive do-loop and view a bunch of plots in interactively... Don't bother reproducing it here, but I am just wondering if this is possible in ipython/matplotlib

[Matplotlib-users] Proceedings of the SciPy conference.

2008-09-22 Thread Gael Varoquaux
The SciPy conference proceedings are finally available online: http://conference.scipy.org/proceedings/SciPy2008 . I hope you enjoy them. I find it great to have this set of excellent articles talking about works done with, or for, Python in science. For me, it is a reference to remember what was

[Matplotlib-users] Schedule for the SciPy08 conferencez

2008-07-06 Thread Gael Varoquaux
We have received a large number of excellent contributions for papers for the SciPy 2008 conference. The program committee has had to make a difficult selection and we are happy to bring to you a preliminary schedule: Thursday = **8:00** Registration/Breakfast **8:55** Welcome (Travis

[Matplotlib-users] Scipy08 Paper submission deadline extention to Monday 30th

2008-06-27 Thread Gael Varoquaux
The deadline for submitting abstracts to the Scipy conference was tonight. In order to give you more time to submit excellent abstracts, the review committee is extending the deadline to Monday (June 30th), and will work hastily to get all of them reviewed in time for the program announcement, on

[Matplotlib-users] Student sponsorship for the SciPy08 conference

2008-06-26 Thread Gael Varoquaux
We are delighted to announce that the Python Software Foundation has answered our call and is providing sponsoring to the SciPy08 conference. We will use this money to sponsor the registration fees and travel for up to 10 college or graduate students to attend the conference. The PSF did not

[Matplotlib-users] Alex Martelli giving the SciPy 2008 Keynote

2008-06-14 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On behalf of the SciPy2008 organizing committee, I am happy to announce that the Keynote at the conference will be given by Alex Martelli. It is a pleasure for us to receive Alex. He currently works as Uber Tech Leader at Google and is the author of two of the Python classics: Python in a

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [matplotlib-devel] New flags in IPython, of interest to matplotlib users

2007-12-17 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 01:36:01AM -0700, Fernando Perez wrote: You can now do this as well: tlon[~] ipython -wthread -pylab --nobanner In [1]: matplotlib.rcParams['backend'] Out[1]: 'WXAgg' Hurray, mayavi and pylab can now easily live together. Thanks heaps Fernando. Gaël