Python Graphing Utilities.

2005-05-10 Thread Kenneth Miller
Hello All, I am new to Python and i was wondering what graphing utlities would be available to me. I have already tried BLT and after weeks of unsuccesful installs i'd like to find something else. Anything someone would recommend? Regards, Ken -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyt

Re: Python Graphing Utilities.

2005-05-10 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Kenneth Miller wrote: > I am new to Python and i was wondering what graphing utlities would be > available to me. I have already tried BLT and after weeks of unsuccesful > installs i'd like to find something else. Anything someone would recommend? start here: http://www.python.org/moin/N

Re: Python Graphing Utilities.

2005-05-10 Thread Bill Mill
On 5/10/05, Kenneth Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I am new to Python and i was wondering what graphing utlities would be > available to me. I have already tried BLT and after weeks of unsuccesful > installs i'd like to find something else. Anything someone would recommend?

Re: Python Graphing Utilities.

2005-05-10 Thread Thomas Lotze
Kenneth Miller wrote: > I am new to Python and i was wondering what graphing utlities would be > available to me. I have already tried BLT and after weeks of unsuccesful > installs i'd like to find something else. Anything someone would > recommend? You might also want to check out PyX:

Re: Python Graphing Utilities.

2005-05-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2005-05-10, Kenneth Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am new to Python and i was wondering what graphing utlities > would be available to me. Exactly what do you mean by "graphing"? I think pygnuplot pretty much kicks for the graphs and plots I do. -- Grant Edwards gra

Re: Python Graphing Utilities.

2005-05-10 Thread Kenneth Miller
Ahh Thanks for the quick replies. I'm having a look through them now. What would you consider the best for real time applications? The idea here is to stream in the results from an A/D converter onto a 2d chart. Regards, Ken -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Graphing Utilities.

2005-05-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2005-05-10, Kenneth Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ahh Thanks for the quick replies. I'm having a look through > them now. What would you consider the best for real time > applications? That depends on how fast "real time" is. I use gnuplot-py for 1 Hz update rates with no issues. 2Hz w

Re: Python Graphing Utilities.

2005-05-10 Thread Ron Adam
Kenneth Miller wrote: > Hello All, > > I am new to Python and i was wondering what graphing utlities would be > available to me. I have already tried BLT and after weeks of unsuccesful > installs i'd like to find something else. Anything someone would recommend? > > Regards, > Ken BLT does

Re: Python Graphing Utilities.

2005-05-10 Thread Fernando Perez
Bill Mill wrote: > On 5/10/05, Kenneth Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> I am new to Python and i was wondering what graphing utlities would be >> available to me. I have already tried BLT and after weeks of unsuccesful >> installs i'd like to find something else. Anything

Re: Python Graphing Utilities.

2005-05-10 Thread Kenneth Miller
Unix, not windows >< "Ron Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Kenneth Miller wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > I am new to Python and i was wondering what graphing utlities would be > > available to me. I have already tried BLT and after weeks of unsuccesful > > in

Re: Python Graphing Utilities.

2005-05-10 Thread Kenneth Miller
Beleive i'm going to try out PyX. "Fernando Perez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Bill Mill wrote: > > > On 5/10/05, Kenneth Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello All, > >> > >> I am new to Python and i was wondering what graphing utlities would be > >> av

Re: Python Graphing Utilities.

2005-05-10 Thread Torsten Bronger
HallÃchen! Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] > > And I'd also second the matplotlib suggestion, to which I've by > now fully switched after years of faithful gnuplot usage. > Matplotlib is very good, has an active development community, and > it is designed from the ground up not

Re: Python Graphing Utilities.

2005-05-11 Thread Bill Mill
On 5/11/05, Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallöchen! > > Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [...] > > > > And I'd also second the matplotlib suggestion, to which I've by > > now fully switched after years of faithful gnuplot usage. > > Matplotlib is very good, has an

Re: Python Graphing Utilities.

2005-05-11 Thread Torsten Bronger
HallÃchen! Bill Mill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 5/11/05, Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> [...] >>> >>> [...] Matplotlib is very good, has an active development >>> community, and it is designed from the ground up not only a

Re: Python Graphing Utilities.

2005-05-11 Thread Bill Mill
On 5/11/05, Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallöchen! > > Bill Mill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 5/11/05, Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >>> [...] > >>> > >>> [...] Matplotlib is very good, has an active

Re: Python Graphing Utilities.

2005-05-11 Thread Robert Kern
Bill Mill wrote: > Tha's cool, I saw what you wrote. First off, I wasn't sure what you > meant by "hardcopy", so I thought I'd let you know that matplotlib has > PS output. Second, the page I linked to talks about all the font-type > features of matplotlib, which I thought might interest you. Havi

Re: Python Graphing Utilities.

2005-05-11 Thread Torsten Bronger
HallÃchen! Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] > > A pslatex backend certainly would be interesting. A Gnuplot > backend would probably not be feasible. Does it expose its raw > drawing operations? Probably not raw enough, but I don't know how basic matplotlib wants it to be. You co

Re: Python Graphing Utilities.

2005-05-11 Thread Fernando Perez
Torsten Bronger wrote: > HallÃchen! > > Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> [...] >> >> And I'd also second the matplotlib suggestion, to which I've by >> now fully switched after years of faithful gnuplot usage. >> Matplotlib is very good, has an active development community, and >>

Re: Python Graphing Utilities.

2005-05-11 Thread Torsten Bronger
HallÃchen! Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] > > Well, it's true that the latex-type (called mathtext) support in > matplotlib is not really up to par with true latex (kerning is off > in places, mixed text/math doesn't work well, etc). I've been > willing to live with it so far

Re: Python Graphing Utilities.

2005-05-11 Thread Robert Kern
Torsten Bronger wrote: > HallÃchen! > > Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>I've yet to experiment with it, but it might (with some additional >>handywork) give final results identical to those of the pslatex >>backend in gnuplot. > > What do you mean with this? Do you want to mimic Te

Re: Python Graphing Utilities.

2005-05-11 Thread Fernando Perez
Torsten Bronger wrote: > HallÃchen! > > Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> [...] >> >> Well, it's true that the latex-type (called mathtext) support in >> matplotlib is not really up to par with true latex (kerning is off >> in places, mixed text/math doesn't work well, etc). I've

Re: Python Graphing Utilities.

2005-05-12 Thread Petr Mikulik
> A pslatex backend certainly would be interesting. A Gnuplot backend > would probably not be feasible. Does it expose its raw drawing operations? There is a patch [ 1027032 ] Connect gnuplot_x11 to exterior application window http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1027032&group_