Dynamically Generating a Graph in Python

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John Hunter <jdhunter at ace.bsd.uchicago.edu> wrote 
> gdmodule is really more of a low level drawing program than a graphing
> module.  Of course you can draw graphs with it, as you can with any
> drawing program, but it's a lot easier to make scientific graphs (the
> OP's interest) with a program designed for that purpose.  matplotlib
> has a gdmodule backend.
> 
>   http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/backends.html#GD
> 
> JDH

I tried matplotlib 0.63 with Python 2.3.4 on an old Win98 machine (500
MHz, 128 MB RAM) and found that I had to wait for at least 35 seconds
before even the simplest demo plot appeared. Is this expected?

The plots looked great, I just hope they appeared faster.