Charts

[Wm. King]

Hi:
Am not sure of packages; however, as an option you can create charts using
Python
to do calculations etc. then pipe into togif or tojpg on UNIX -- thats one
possibilty..
Other would be to use Tkinter and create a canvas ( have to do math as well)
and another would be to use Tcl/TK and a create a canvas.. you would have
to have plug-in for browser... And you could also do it with Java AWT and
Swing (possibly using JPython?)... Each has it own quirks (ie. Whether you
draw rectangles from the top or the bottom)... As a crazy newbie I like to
mix
and match and glue stuff together...... So maybe the Tkinter and JPython
people
might know of something more, but there are ways.... be they evil or not....
Hopefully you will find some package that works....



David Maslen wrote:

> Thierry Thelliez <thierry at acm.org> writes:
> > Is there any packages for creating charts (histograms, scattered plots,
> > line charts,...) in Python ?
>
> Yes. There seem to be a few. Do a search on
> http://www.vex.net/parnassus/
>
> Just to quickly summarise what I discovered.
>
> Gnuplot, stable, mature and the python module to access is quite good,
> but not as feature packed as it might be. The best thing I found.
>
> gdcharts. Very pretty. I'd consider it for generating nice graphs for
> a webpage or perhaps a report, but not if I really wanted to look at
> the lines in detail.
>
> graphite. Based on the piddle library. I think this will be very nice,
> but it didn't do the financial type charts I was after.
>
> gist stuff in python_graphics. Interesting, and interactive, not quite
> what I was after.