Real-time graphs

[Fernando Perez]

snrkiwi-lists at yahoo.com wrote:

> I've trolled the lists, FAQs, and Net as a whole, but
> can't find anything definitive to answer this.
> 
> We're looking for real-time graph capability (bar,
> line, etc), so that we can display telemetry from a
> robot system.  There are a bunch of packages out
> there, but many seem to provide only static graphs
> (e.g. for scientific, financial data, etc). Does
> anyone currently display real-time telemetry using
> Python? Can anyone provide any suggestions?

I suspect matplotlib will be your best choice, but you might also check out
HippoDraw (google for it).  It's Qt-based, designed to read instrument data at
SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator).  I've seen demos of it, and it looked very
good.

Best,

f