Re: [Matplotlib-users] dates for x-axis

2012-04-19 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Goyo wrote: > El día 19 de abril de 2012 05:31, questions anon > escribió: > > Thank you, I was able to get it to work but only if I imported datetime > > within the loop, otherwise I ended up with the > > AttributeError: type object 'datetime.datetime' has no at

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Continent Transparency

2012-04-26 Thread Benjamin Root
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Bruce Ford wrote: > All, > > I often produce images for use in .KML with Google Earth. Sometimes I > need the masking effect > of matplotlib.toolkits.basemap.Basemap.fillcontinents but in the case of > Google Earth, I need to make continents transparent on the fin

Re: [Matplotlib-users] "mpl_toolkits.axisartist.floating_axes.FloatingSubplot" required option

2012-04-27 Thread Benjamin Root
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Francesco Montesano < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear matplotlibers, > > I know almost nothing about mpl_toolkits (matplolib.__version__ = 1.1.0). > >From the help of > "mpl_toolkits.axisartist.floating_axes.FloatingSubplot", the init > function read

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib and Cpp

2012-04-27 Thread Benjamin Root
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Ignas Anikevicius wrote: > Dear all, > > I was wondering if it is possible to use matplotlib from C++ directly > and I have found an example on how to do this on StackOverflow: > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2509156/anyone-knows-a-matplotlib-equivalent-in

Re: [Matplotlib-users] restrictions on format for posting to matplotlib-users?

2012-04-27 Thread Benjamin Root
On Friday, April 27, 2012, tanim wrote: > Hello: > > Are there any restrictions or best practices for posting problems or > issues one has with matplotlib/pyplot? I ask, because one of the data sets > that demonstrates unexpected behavior in matplotlib is ~300k in size (I > can reduce it if necess

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib and Cpp

2012-04-29 Thread Benjamin Root
On Sunday, April 29, 2012, Ignas Anikevičius wrote: > Hello everybody, > > On 28 April 2012 12:13, julien tayon 'cvml', '[email protected]');>> wrote: > >> First cpp stands for C Pre Processor, this tool usually does macro >> substitution in c, objective c, c++. Hence Cpp in the object is pretty >

Re: [Matplotlib-users] probable issues with Axes3D.scatter working unusually?

2012-04-30 Thread Benjamin Root
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Tanim Islam wrote: > Apologies, but attached to this email are the 2 python scripts I have > neglected to attach to the previous email. > > Tanim Islam > > Tanim, Could you try that again? No python scripts came with that email. Ben Root ---

Re: [Matplotlib-users] symlog linear to log transition plot position?

2012-05-01 Thread Benjamin Root
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:42 AM, David Erickson wrote: > Hi I need to use the symlog yscale in my graph, I have a lot of data > that needs to be displayed linearly, with a small fraction at the upper > end of the range that needs to be displayed in log scale due to its > distance from the main data

Re: [Matplotlib-users] probable issues with Axes3D.scatter working unusually?

2012-05-01 Thread Benjamin Root
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Tanim Islam wrote: > Yes, sorry about that. I hope this now works. > > Tanim Islam > > I can confirm your results. I am looking into it. What version of matplotlib are you using? Ben Root -

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Documentation

2012-05-02 Thread Benjamin Root
On Wednesday, May 2, 2012, Alexis Praga wrote: > Here is the result of "apt-get build-dep python-matplotlib" : > > The following NEW packages will be installed: > blt debhelper doc-base docbook-xsl docbook-xsl-doc-html dvipng > global graphviz html2text intltool-debian ipython javascript-common >

Re: [Matplotlib-users] symlog linear to log transition plot position?

2012-05-03 Thread Benjamin Root
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 3:59 PM, David Erickson wrote: > On 5/1/2012 5:41 AM, Benjamin Root wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:42 AM, David Erickson wrote: > >> Hi I need to use the symlog yscale in my graph, I have a lot of data >> that needs to be displayed l

Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to set set default figure format for interactive figures?

2012-05-04 Thread Benjamin Root
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Chao YUE wrote: > Dear all, > > I use the default GTKAgg backend. When I explore the figure in interactive > mode, I find a list of formats to select for the figure format. > But the default one is .png, so how can I change to .jpg? > > In [7]: mat.get_backend() >

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Possible bug with saving eps figure

2012-05-07 Thread Benjamin Root
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > That's not a bug. linewidth is required to be a float, rather than a > string. Python's typing is generally a little stricter than languages > such as JavaScript. > > Mike > > I think the bigger question is why does it _work_ with sho

Re: [Matplotlib-users] pick event

2012-05-12 Thread Benjamin Root
On Saturday, May 12, 2012, Jerzy Karczmarczuk wrote: > Arek Kędzior: > > I am trying to use pick event. > > ... > > What am I doing wrong ? > > Wrong with WHAT? > What do you expect? > > Jerzy Karczmarczuk > Arek. Could you provide a little more detail about your issue? Cheers! Ben Root -

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting issue using recent matplotlib

2012-05-15 Thread Benjamin Root
On Tuesday, May 15, 2012, Gökhan Sever wrote: > Hello, > > I have encountered a weird plotting issue recently using a recent mpl > clone. See the linked pdfs for better demonstration of the issue: > > http://atmos.uwyo.edu/~gsever/data/vocals_RF04_NU05_newmpl.pdf > http://atmos.uwyo.edu/~gsever/da

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib installation

2012-05-19 Thread Benjamin Root
On Saturday, May 19, 2012, Miro Ilias wrote: > Hi, > > I have the same problem on Windows 7: I installated Python 2.7 from > installation > package, and matplotlib package gave me the mentioned error message during > installation. > > Miro > > > Maybe this is a 32/64-bit issue? I.e., the python i

Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to remove colorbar?

2012-05-21 Thread Benjamin Root
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Chao YUE wrote: > Dear all, > > Is there a way to remove colorbar? axes.cla() clears only the region for > map but not the colorbar. > > Chao > > Colorbars are a bit tricky. They are actually a subplot axes separate from your plotting axes. And I don't think the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] plt.close() not releasing memory? Or memory leak elsewhere?

2012-05-22 Thread Benjamin Root
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Stevenson, Samuel < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi All > > ** ** > > After spending all day working on this I have discovered that if I > explicity change the matplotlib backend in spyder from ‘Qt4Agg’ to ‘Agg’ > then my code executes as expected wi

Re: [Matplotlib-users] barchart errorbars always in both directions

2012-05-23 Thread Benjamin Root
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:03 AM, Meesters, Aesku.Kipp Institute < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm following the example in the gallery to do a barchart plot (see > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/api/barchart_demo.html ). > > In contrast to the example I would like to see

Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to set figure to appear on another monitor?

2012-05-23 Thread Benjamin Root
On Wednesday, May 23, 2012, Gökhan Sever wrote: > > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Chao YUE > > > wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I have two different monitors. How can I use plot command within terminal >> in this monitor and set the figure to show defaultly in another one? >> >> thanks, >> >> Ch

[Matplotlib-users] Easy mistake to make...

2012-05-24 Thread Benjamin Root
Just got bit by this and I thought I'd share to help others. I was just quickly writing out some pyplot commands to create two subplots to compare some results. I did: plt.subplots(1, 2, 1) plt.contourf() plt.title("Contours") xlim = plt.xlim() ylim = plt.ylim() plt.subplots(1, 2, 2) plt.im

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Easy mistake to make...

2012-05-24 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Tony Yu wrote: > > > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Benjamin Root wrote: > >> Just got bit by this and I thought I'd share to help others. >> >> I was just quickly writing out some pyplot commands to create two >>

Re: [Matplotlib-users] griddata is not working after update to Python 2.7

2012-05-24 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thursday, May 24, 2012, Umut Yildiz wrote: > Dear All, > > I used to use griddata in order to make my contourmaps. However, after I > updated > my Python from 2.6 to 2.7 griddata is not working anymore. > > I tried some workarounds but no success. > > The countourmap that I produced before is h

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlibrc interpretation under Windows seems buggy

2012-05-24 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thursday, May 24, 2012, Jerzy Karczmarczuk wrote: > Gurus, > > Windows XP, matplotlib 1.1.0. Backend Tk, but the same elsewhere. > > Programme: > > import matplotlib as mpl > import matplotlib.pyplot as plt > mpl.rcParams['lines.linewidth'] = 2 > mpl.rcParams['lines.color'] = 'r' > > x=range(80

Re: [Matplotlib-users] problem installing matplotlib on centos

2012-05-30 Thread Benjamin Root
On Wednesday, May 30, 2012, Amanda Stott wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to build matplotlib from source on CentOS. I have installed > all the dependencies, including numpy, freetype, libpng, etc. I also have > both the C and C++ compiler (gcc and cgg-c++) installed in /usr/lib/. > However when ru

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Looking for additional help about moving a legend

2012-06-01 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thursday, May 31, 2012, solarg wrote: > hello all, > > i've tried it on my laptop, but got this error at the last line: > > >>> fig.savefig('samplefigure', bbox_extra_artists=(lgd,), > bbox_inches='tight') > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 1, in > File > > "/Users/me/py

Re: [Matplotlib-users] scatter plot with constant x

2012-06-06 Thread Benjamin Root
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Ulrich vor dem Esche < [email protected]> wrote: > Hey! :o) > This should be simple, but i cant manage: I need to plot many dots with > the same x, like > > plt.plot([3,3,3,3],[60,80,120,180],'+',markersize=8,mec='k') > > The array for x values is silly,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] ymax

2012-06-06 Thread Benjamin Root
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Tony Yu wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:32 PM, kamel maths wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> for this script: >> >> from pylab import * >> >> fig = figure() >> ax = fig.add_subplot(111) >> ax.axis('equal') >> >> x = linspace(-2, 3, 5

Re: [Matplotlib-users] ginput with undefined number of points

2012-06-07 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:07 AM, David Craig wrote: > Hi, > I trying to define an area in a pcolor plot (several plots) using the > ginput(). However since it is an irregular shape and will be different in > each plot so I cant define how many points there will be before hand, I've > tried the fo

Re: [Matplotlib-users] path contains_point IndexError: Unexpected SeqBase length

2012-06-11 Thread Benjamin Root
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Gustavo Goretkin < [email protected]> wrote: > The problem is that the function in _path.cpp expects a path radius > argument, r. > > Here is the signature: > point_in_path(double x, double y, double r, PathIterator& path, > const agg::trans

Re: [Matplotlib-users] What is your matplotlib workflow?

2012-06-12 Thread Benjamin Root
On Tuesday, June 12, 2012, wiswit wrote: > > Hi, Thanks Fernando! I am using vim and I checked a little bit the tool and > it seems of great help! > I am not saying that we need something perfect. It's already great to have > these tools (ipython, matplotlib). Just imagine what's kind of feeling >

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Duplicate Ticks

2012-06-13 Thread Benjamin Root
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Peter Würtz wrote: > > I'm sorry, there seems to be a mess. Nabble told me that this mail to the > list was not accepted for unknown reasons so I deleted it. Here is the > example I was talking about in the previous mail: > > import matplotlib > import pylab as p

Re: [Matplotlib-users] suppress plotting window

2012-06-14 Thread Benjamin Root
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 4:36 AM, Maximilian Fabricius wrote: > Hi all, > > it seems that whenever I plot something, a window opens. > > from matplotlib import pylab > import numpy > pylab.plot(numpy.random.normal(size=100)) > > Now, I have code that is supposed to produce diagnostic plots as PDFs.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] using datetime on a pcolor plot

2012-06-14 Thread Benjamin Root
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Timothy Duly wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to make a simple pcolor plot with a datetime on the x-axis. I > am able to get a time label on the x-axis fine with a regular plot command, > but it doesn't appear to work if you use pcolor. This simple example below

Re: [Matplotlib-users] logairthmic contour plot

2012-06-14 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thursday, June 14, 2012, Daπid wrote: > First, this is another topic, so please, change the subject of the > message so it doesn't get messed up with others (and possible help > lost in the process). > > Now, you are indeed plotting one dot at the time and generating a > label for it. If you do

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Tweaking axes_grid example

2012-06-14 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thursday, June 14, 2012, Jonathan Hayward wrote: > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/axes_grid/scatter_hist.html > > This is something I'd like to be able to produce, but for millions of > records, where the center will look like one undifferentiated mass of dark > blue. > > Is there a

Re: [Matplotlib-users] 3d contourf and ax.set

2012-06-15 Thread Benjamin Root
Ananduri, On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 8:47 AM, ananduri wrote: > > Hello, > > I have some minor questions regarding matplotlib. I'm using it to make a 3d > plot, displaying a surface, it's contour map, a line climbing the surface > and its projection onto the contour map. > > http://old.nabble.com/f

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plot points in a 3D Scatter Plot

2012-06-15 Thread Benjamin Root
Khary, On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 3:30 PM, surfcast23 wrote: > > to matplotlib-use. > Hi, > > I have a data set that is composed of x,y,z coordinates of the center of > cells and counts of objects in each contained in cell. I am using the > following code to do a scatter plot of the counts per cel

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Is the Python Decimal class supported?

2012-06-16 Thread Benjamin Root
On Friday, June 15, 2012, Mark Lawrence wrote: > Hi all, > > I regularly use matplotlib for plotting data relating to my personal > finances. At the moment I'm converting Decimals to floats. Do I still > have to do this? If yes, are there any plans to support Decimals? I've > tried searching t

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib requires write perms and space in $HOME

2012-06-18 Thread Benjamin Root
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:41 AM, John Hunter wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Martin Mokrejs > wrote: > > > Hmm. Could it be by default the current working directory instead? Or, > try/else added to the code > > which would try to write into cwd if $HOME (aka $MPLCONFIGDIR) returns > an

Re: [Matplotlib-users] where did my plots go?

2012-06-18 Thread Benjamin Root
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Andre' Walker-Loud wrote: > Hi All, > > I have mac os x, 10.6.8, enthought distribution. > > I recently upgraded from the 6.2 to 7.3 EPD. > > Previously, I had a script which would manipulate some data, and as soon > as the command > > plt.figure() > > was issued,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] suppress plotting window

2012-06-18 Thread Benjamin Root
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Maximilian Fabricius wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 6:40 PM, John Hunter wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Maximilian Fabricius > > wrote: > >> it seems that whenever I plot something, a window opens. > >> > >> from matplotlib import pylab > >> import

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting against time

2012-06-18 Thread Benjamin Root
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Clare Soh wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to plot some data against time using the following code: > > r = mlab.csv2rec(filename) > self.axis.plot(r.time, r.jb_sizems) > hfmt = dates.DateFormatter('%H:%M:%S.%f') > self.a

Re: [Matplotlib-users] More efficient way to set_clip_path for many polygons?

2012-06-19 Thread Benjamin Root
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Alexander Crosby wrote: > The code below is a stripped down version of the way i am implementing a > clip operation, but it is slow and memory inefficient. Is there a way to > do this without looping or just faster, perhaps with a > PolygonCollection? > > I have c

Re: [Matplotlib-users] where did my plots go?

2012-06-19 Thread Benjamin Root
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Andre' Walker-Loud wrote: > Hi Goyo, > > > 2012/6/19 Andre' Walker-Loud : > >> But my plots still vanish as soon as the script is done : > > > > That's to be expected. You can make the script not to end until the > > user ask for it explicitly: > > > > raw_input('

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib window not showing anymore

2012-06-20 Thread Benjamin Root
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 6:12 AM, mogliii wrote: > Hi, > > on the computer where it does not work the backend is 'agg'. In a > virtual machine, where it works, the backend shows 'TkAgg' > > Now on the machine it does not work I run the following: > > >>> import matplotlib > >>> matplotlib.use('TkA

Re: [Matplotlib-users] problem with streamplot method in basemap-1.0.3(4)

2012-06-20 Thread Benjamin Root
On Wednesday, June 20, 2012, Nicolas wrote: > Hi all > > I have installed successively basemap 1.0.3 and 1.0.4 on top of my EPD > 7.3 (linux x86_64) running on a linux ubuntu 11.10. > > archives downloaded from > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib-toolkits/basemap-1.0.X/

Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to maintain fractional minor tick spacing

2012-06-22 Thread Benjamin Root
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Christopher Graves < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Has anyone had a chance to take a look at this very annoying bug with >> using AutoMinorLocator? >> > > > Ok, I proposed a simple bu

Re: [Matplotlib-users] tornado chart

2012-06-22 Thread Benjamin Root
On Friday, June 22, 2012, John Hunter wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Alan G Isaac > > > wrote: > > On 6/21/2012 10:24 PM, Tony Yu wrote: > >> Here's an example based off the horizontal bar charts in the gallery. > > > > Pretty good, really! > > More than just a starting point. > > And

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Maintain A4 plot size with arbitrary number of subplots

2012-06-25 Thread Benjamin Root
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:12 PM, mogliii wrote: > Hi, > > In my script a variable number of graphs is generated. I want to place > them in one column with arbitrary number of rows onto an A4 canvas (for > pdf export). > > Unfortunately the figsize directive seems to have no effect. The figure > i

Re: [Matplotlib-users] any way of having something like pcolorfast results with log scale ?

2012-06-26 Thread Benjamin Root
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:03 AM, julien tayon wrote: > Hello, > > I made a crude sonogram https://gist.github.com/2983547 with the note > names instead of the frequency. But, It really angers me not to be > able to have a log scale for the frequency. > > Does any well known workaround exists? >

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib 1.2.x + Python 3.2.3 + Numpy 1.6.2

2012-06-30 Thread Benjamin Root
On Saturday, June 30, 2012, Youbao Zhang wrote: > Dear all, > > I successfully installed Python 3.2.3 + Numpy 1.6.2 + Matplotlib 1.2.x > (Git version). I tried the following command sequence line by line: > > huskier@SqueezeVM0:~/Programming/Python/Python-3.2.3$ python3.2 > Python 3.2.3 (default,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Tick label text

2012-07-02 Thread Benjamin Root
Mads, On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Mads Ipsen wrote: > I want to make some mods to a few selected tick labels. > > For example, if I do > > label = axes.yaxis.get_major_ticks()[2].label > label.set_fontsize(size) > label.set_rotation('vertical') > > the font size and the orientation o

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Updating a colorbar

2012-07-02 Thread Benjamin Root
Mads, On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Mads Ipsen wrote: > Hi, > > Suppose you do this: > > axes = self.figure().get_axes() > contour = axes.contourf(x,y,z) > colorbar = self.figure().colorbar(contour) > > Suppose that the contour data changes, can you update the colorbar with > the new data? >

Re: [Matplotlib-users] IndexError: index out of bounds

2012-07-02 Thread Benjamin Root
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 12:50 PM, surfcast23 wrote: > > Hi, > I am translating a Matlab code to python and get the following error when > the codes reaches the plotting section > > Warning (from warnings module): > File "C:\Documents and Settings\My Documents\PHYSICS\Wave-eqn.py", line > 40 >

Re: [Matplotlib-users] conflicts with navigation bar events

2012-07-03 Thread Benjamin Root
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 4:33 AM, wrote: > Hi all! > > How can I use the keyboard events up/down/right/left without starting an > interaction with the navigation toolbar? > I connected to the keypress events and everything looks ok until I press > the down key: my connected method gets called once

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Accelerating PDF saved plots

2012-07-05 Thread Benjamin Root
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Gökhan Sever wrote: > Hello, > > I am working on creating some distribution plots to analyze cloud droplet > and drop features. You can see one such plot at > http://atmos.uwyo.edu/~gsever/data/rf06_1second/rf06_belowcloud_SurfaceArea_1second.pdf > This file conta

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Accelerating PDF saved plots

2012-07-05 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Gökhan Sever wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Gökhan Sever wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Benjamin Root wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Gökhan Sever wrote: >

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Accelerating PDF saved plots

2012-07-05 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Gökhan Sever wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Fabrice Silva wrote: > >> >> >> > At end of the outer loop, instead of closing the figure, you should >> > call "remove()" for each plot element you made. Essentially, as you >> > loop over the inner loop,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Accelerating PDF saved plots

2012-07-05 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Gökhan Sever wrote: > And you might get back more memory if you didn't have to have all the data >> in memory at once, but that may or may not help you. The only other >> suggestion I can make is to attempt to eliminate the overhead in the inner >> loop. Essentia

Re: [Matplotlib-users] conflicts with navigation bar events

2012-07-06 Thread Benjamin Root
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 3:15 AM, wrote: > Hi Ben, > > thanks for the tip! > I nevertheless hit another snag: > In [12]: [(k,p.rcParams[k]) for k in p.rcParams.keys() if 'keymap' in k] > Out[12]: > [('keymap.all_axes', ['a']), > ('keymap.back', ['left', 'c', 'backspace']), > ('keymap.forward', ['

Re: [Matplotlib-users] bbox_inches='tight' from the navigation toolbar

2012-07-06 Thread Benjamin Root
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Saurav Pathak wrote: > Hi, > > I would often save figures after show() from the savefig button on the > navigation toolbar. I would like to trim white spaces using something > akin to bbox_inches='tight', but haven't been able to figure out how. I > tried adding

Re: [Matplotlib-users] clean way to build subplots with sharex only on same colomn and sharey only on same row?

2012-07-07 Thread Benjamin Root
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Chao YUE wrote: > dear all, > > I want to build a 5X3 subplots matrix that I want the xaxis is shared only > on the same column and yaxis shared only on the same row. > While using plt.subplots(5,3,sharex=True, sharey=True) will put all > subplots as both shared xa

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Why does contourf with the extend argument tweak the data limits?

2012-07-09 Thread Benjamin Root
On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Brendan Barnwell wrote: > I just spent some time debugging an odd problem. Take this code: > > x,y = np.arange(-10,10), np.arange(-10,10) > x,y = np.meshgrid(x,y) > z = x**2+y**2 > cs = pyplot.contourf(x,y,z,levels=np.arange(50, 220, 20), > cmap=pyplot.cm.j

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [matplotlib-users] How to plot digamma function (psi)

2012-07-10 Thread Benjamin Root
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Damon McDougall wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:27:59PM +0200, Fabien Lafont wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I try to plot the digamma function of (1/2 + 1/x) but I'm not sure that > I'm > > plotting the good one. > > > > I've tried: > > > > special.polygamm

Re: [Matplotlib-users] ANN: mpltools 0.1 release

2012-07-10 Thread Benjamin Root
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Tony Yu wrote: > Announcement: mpltools 0.1 > == > > mpltools is a package of tools for matplotlib. For the most part, these > tools are only loosely-connected in functionality, but there are two that > may prove particularly useful: > > S

Re: [Matplotlib-users] ANN: mpltools 0.1 release

2012-07-11 Thread Benjamin Root
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:23 AM, John Hunter wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Damon McDougall < > [email protected]> wrote: >> >> Well, as Ben said, that error fill plot is neato! It doesn't look too >> complicated, either. I'd be more than happy to port it over later today

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Saving animation with coloured background

2012-07-11 Thread Benjamin Root
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Pål Gunnar Ellingsen wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to save a animation, which I've generated using > animation.FuncAnimation. > The animation has it's background set by plt.rcParams['figure.facecolor'] > = 'black' > Which works with plt.show(), though not with animat

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Two panels (wxPython) containing separate figures

2012-07-11 Thread Benjamin Root
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Joshua Koehler wrote: > Hi all, > > I am currently trying to have two panels each with their own figure > instance so they can have separate plots. > > I can successfully update a plot if there is only one panel. As soon as I > add a second panel, I get the follow

Re: [Matplotlib-users] ANN: mpltools 0.1 release

2012-07-11 Thread Benjamin Root
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:23 AM, John Hunter wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Damon McDougall < > [email protected]> wrote: >> >> Well, as Ben said, that error fill plot is neato! It doesn't look too >> complicated, either. I'd be more than happy to port it over later today

Re: [Matplotlib-users] histogram scaling

2012-07-12 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Daπid wrote: > I don't know if there is any reason for not having it, but as a > workaround, you could use np.hist to get the data (syntax is the same > as mpl.hist and returns the same numbers, but without drawing) and > then renormalise and plot with mpl.bars. >

Re: [Matplotlib-users] ANN: mpltools 0.1 release

2012-07-13 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Damon McDougall wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 08:33:21PM -0400, Tony Yu wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:23 AM, John Hunter > wro

Re: [Matplotlib-users] ANN: mpltools 0.1 release

2012-07-13 Thread Benjamin Root
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Damon McDougall wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 08:33:21PM -0400, Tony Yu wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:23 AM, John Hunter > wro

Re: [Matplotlib-users] path effects question

2012-07-14 Thread Benjamin Root
On Saturday, July 14, 2012, John Hunter wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 11:48 AM, John Hunter > > > wrote: > >> I do not understand why in the following example, if I set >> patch_alpha=1.0, I do not see the shadow effect. I would expect to see it >> for the the rightmost four bars, where

Re: [Matplotlib-users] axes3d, initial azimuth and elevation

2012-07-14 Thread Benjamin Root
On Saturday, July 14, 2012, gsal wrote: > > So, I have > > [code] > > from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import axes3d > fig = plt.figure(figsize=(10,7)) > ax = fig.gca(projection='3d') > ax.scatter(xs, ys, zs, c='r') > plt.show() > > [/code] > > but when the figure first comes up, it is not to my liking;

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [matplotlib-devel] ANN: mpltools 0.1 release

2012-07-17 Thread Benjamin Root
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 6:25 AM, todd rme wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 5:23 PM, John Hunter wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Damon McDougall > > wrote: > >> > >> Well, as Ben said, that error fill plot is neato! It doesn't look too > >> complicated, either. I'd be more t

Re: [Matplotlib-users] HSL image (?)

2012-07-17 Thread Benjamin Root
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Yannick Copin wrote: > Hi List, > > Short question: is there any (simple) way to generate "spectral" images > such as the ones in http://astro.u-strasbg.fr/~koppen/discharge/ ? > > Long version: say I have 1D-array l, which I would like to visualize as > the L comp

Re: [Matplotlib-users] mimic alpha (channel) v0.1

2012-07-17 Thread Benjamin Root
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Jonathan Slavin wrote: > Francesco, > > While I like your solution, there is an alternative that is simpler and > works for me. That is 1) save matplotlib plot as a png, 2) convert to > eps using either ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick. You do end up with > relative

[Matplotlib-users] need an icon for a new featureH

2012-07-18 Thread Benjamin Root
Hello all! I have just about completed a PR that would add a new button to the navigation toolbar for the tight_layout() action. I am hardly an artist and have no clue how to graphically represent the tight_layout action in a tiny icon. I would greatly welcome any graphics artist out there who c

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Combining 4 plots into one figure

2012-07-19 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:30 AM, Damon McDougall wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:23:09AM +0200, Alexander Eberspaecher wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:50:50 -0700 > > Brad Malone wrote: > > > > > Hi, I have a collection of 4 plots that I spent some time in > > > constructing. They themselve

Re: [Matplotlib-users] need an icon for a new featureH

2012-07-19 Thread Benjamin Root
org/ > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tango_icons > > > > > > Tango (for fullscreen but might suit tight-layout) > > Nicolas > > > > > > On Jul 19, 2012, at 0:47 , Benjamin Root wrote: > > > >> Hello all! > >> > >>

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to Turn Off Blocking by Method show()

2012-07-19 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:34 PM, JonBL wrote: > > I have a Python program which calls matplotlib's show() method to display a > plot, but control does not return to my program until I close the displayed > figure. I want control to immediately return to my program so that I can > display additio

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [matplotlib-users] How to switch colormaps

2012-07-20 Thread Benjamin Root
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:39 AM, Damon McDougall wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:14:08PM +0200, Fabien Lafont wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > Is it possible to have automaticaly more than 3 colors when Iplot a > graph? > > When I plot it put the first in blue the second in green the third i

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Drawing arrows on Axes

2012-07-20 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 3:17 PM, ObsessiveMathsFreak < [email protected]> wrote: > I used sagemath which uses matplotlib as its plotting interface. After > extensive investigation I was extremely disappointed to find that > matplotlib has no fundamental support for drawing arrows at th

Re: [Matplotlib-users] 2D Quiver in Axes3D

2012-07-20 Thread Benjamin Root
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Damon McDougall wrote: > Howdy all, > > Not sure if I'm being a giant noob, but is there any way to plot a > vector field (a la quiver) on the (x, y)-plane of an Axes3D object? The > behaviour I desire is exactly that of > > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/mpl_to

Re: [Matplotlib-users] wrapping y axis tick labels?

2012-07-20 Thread Benjamin Root
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:55 PM, C M wrote: > How possible would it be to wrap y axis tick labels after a certain > text length? I have a horizontal bar plot where some bars' labels are > too long and therefore cut off. I can scrunch the width of the whole > plot to accommodate them, but I'd m

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Possible to change MPL color scheme?

2012-07-22 Thread Benjamin Root
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 1:21 PM, klo uo wrote: > Hi, > > I read previous mail about "colormaps" which reminded me to a question > I had about MPL colors. > Colors in MPL plots are dark, and pale, and not is some specific color > theme but it's just pale dark. > I thought that usually people make

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to Change Axis Tick Mark Labels

2012-07-22 Thread Benjamin Root
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 10:27 PM, JonBL wrote: > > I have a line plot where the x-axis values are numbers, with displayed tick > mark values of 0, 100, 200 ... 500 - a total of 6 tick marks. These values > represent the number of days since a certain date. I have a function which > converts a num

Re: [Matplotlib-users] 3D plot -- rotating axes label text?

2012-07-24 Thread Benjamin Root
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Sami Niemi wrote: > Hi, > > I have not managed to rotate the axes label text when generating a 3D > plot, while in 2D everything works just fine. Here's a short snippet to > demonstrate: > > import matplotlib.pyplot as plt > from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3

Re: [Matplotlib-users] 3D plot -- rotating axes label text?

2012-07-24 Thread Benjamin Root
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Sami Niemi wrote: > Thanks Ben for your explanation. I have filed a feature request: > https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/1037 > > > Cheers, > Sami > > Sami, I did take a quick peek at the code to assess how much effort it would take to make it work

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Sources and tools for meteo data?

2012-07-24 Thread Benjamin Root
On Tuesday, July 24, 2012, Vladan Divljak wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Eric Firing wrote: > >> >> It sounds like maybe you missed http://pydap.org. >> > > I have it :) > I installed it yesterday. > On a first sight, it seemed to me like a tool for users interested in > making local da

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Prevent matplotlib (imshow) from interpolating at all

2012-07-25 Thread Benjamin Root
On Wednesday, July 25, 2012, Rutger Kassies wrote: > Dear list, > > I am trying to plot an image using imshow for which i want to have full > control of the interpolation taking place. I would rather not have any > interpolation at all, but if the input image is very small, it may be > interpolate

Re: [Matplotlib-users] plt.figure.show() not working in Ubuntu

2012-07-26 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thursday, July 26, 2012, Joshua Koehler wrote: > Hi all, > > I am getting the following error message: > > 'Figure' object has no attribute 'show' > > When running matplotlib in Ubuntu 12.04, with matplotlib 1.2.x and pylab > 1.6.2. > > The code is set up as such: > > fig = pylab.figure() > ...

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Role of numpy Method arange in Matplotlib

2012-07-27 Thread Benjamin Root
On Friday, July 27, 2012, JonBL wrote: > > I'm unsure about the role of numpy method arange in Matplotlib plots. All > Matplotlib examples I have seen call numpy's method arange, and pass the > result as the first arg to Matplotlib's plot method. > > But the following works as expected: > > --- qu

Re: [Matplotlib-users] reusing the pylab gui in a custom application (wxpython)?

2012-07-29 Thread Benjamin Root
On Sunday, July 29, 2012, Vlastimil Brom wrote: > Hi all, > I'd like to ask about the possibility to eventually reuse the gui of > pylab for showing and manipulating the plots in the custom application > (written in wxpython). > Basically, I'd like to add some application specific controls to the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] reusing the pylab gui in a custom application (wxpython)?

2012-07-31 Thread Benjamin Root
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Vlastimil Brom wrote: > 2012/7/30 Benjamin Root : > > > > > > On Sunday, July 29, 2012, Vlastimil Brom wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, > >> I'd like to ask about the possibility to eventually reuse the gui of >

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Size of array elements when using Axes3D.plot_wireframe(X, Y, Z, *args, **kwargs)

2012-08-02 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thursday, August 2, 2012, surfcast23 wrote: > > > > surfcast23 wrote: > > > > In the documentation it says that Axes3D.plot_wireframe(X, Y, Z, *args, > > **kwargs) takes 2D arrays as the first two arguments. Do the arrays have > > to have the same size dimensions? > > > > > > Any one know? Wo

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Size of array elements when using Axes3D.plot_wireframe(X, Y, Z, *args, **kwargs)

2012-08-02 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thursday, August 2, 2012, surfcast23 wrote: > > Okay thank you! The Matlab code I am basing this on takes arrays of > different > shapes with different sized elements ie > x = 1 512 > y = 101 1 > and I guess automatically makes the the same shape. Can you point me in the > direction of docu

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Size of array elements when using Axes3D.plot_wireframe(X, Y, Z, *args, **kwargs)

2012-08-02 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thursday, August 2, 2012, surfcast23 wrote: > > Wouldn't > > X= np.ones((1, 45)) > Y= np.zeros((32, 1)) > > change the existing values of the elements to ones and zeros? > > I was just demonstrating what np.broadcast_arrays() does. Take your x and y arrays and put them through this function an

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Size of array elements when using Axes3D.plot_wireframe(X, Y, Z, *args, **kwargs)

2012-08-02 Thread Benjamin Root
On Friday, August 3, 2012, surfcast23 wrote: > > I tested it out and it does change all the values to ones and zeros. Is > there > a way to broadcast and keep the original values that were in the arrays? > Thanks for the help > > > Don't use ones() and zeros(). It was just a way to swtup a demons

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