Easy-to-install-and-use scientific graphics (plotting) package for Python 2.5.1 on Linux Ubuntu 7.1

[Robert Kern]

Dr. Colombes wrote:
> Is there an easy scientific graphics (plotting) package for Python
> 2.5.1 running on Ubuntu Linux 7.1 ("Gutsy Gibbon")?
> 
> A few years ago I used PyLab (a MatLab-like plotting module for
> Python) on a Windows machine, but I don't know if there is a similar
> easy-to-install-and-use Python 2.5.1-compatible graphics package for
> Ubuntu Linux 7.1?

matplotlib (which you misname PyLab) works with Python 2.5.1 on Ubuntu, too.

   $ sudo apt-get install python-matplotlib

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Robert Kern

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