Re: [Matplotlib-users] Figure save hack

2012-03-16 Thread Guillaume Gay
Hi, I have been dreaming about this for a long time too, This would really be a nice feature. I often need to come back to the formatting of a plot, and its formatting only, without the need to really access the data (which I often end up calculating again!) Guillaume Le 16/03/2012 09:17, D

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Figure save hack

2012-03-16 Thread François Beaubert
Indeed, saving figures in the manner of Matlab would be a great feature enhancement for Matplotlib. Keep Hacking ! :) Cheers François <>-- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here ht

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Figure save hack

2012-03-16 Thread David Verelst
Hi, This sounds actually very interesting. I have been thinking about how to save matplotlib figures in a way comparable to the Matlab .fig format: a file that holds the data (for instance using HDF5/pytables, some figures might hold a lot of data) and the plotting commands to exactly reconstr