Plotting package?

[John Hunter]

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Koenig <ark at acm.org> writes:

    Andrew> This may be a foolish question, but what's the most
    Andrew> straightforward way to plot a bunch of data in Python?


in matplotlib/pylab

  from pylab import figure, show
  x = range(10)
  y = [val**2 for val in x]
  fig = figure()
  ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
  ax.plot(x,y)
  ax.set_title('My first plot')
  ax.set_xlabel('x')
  ax.set_ylabel('y')
  show()

Tutorial: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/tutorial.html
Screenshots: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html

JDH