Options for creating a statistics screen on a Mac with Python?

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Diez B. Roggisch <deets at nospam.web.de> wrote:
>  Phillip B Oldham schrieb:
> > I've come into possession of a mac mini and a large LCD tv at the
> > office. I'd like to set it up in the corner to pull statistics from
> > our various servers (load, uptimes, etc) and display them in a
> > graphical format, full-screen, with a reasonable refresh rate (say
> > every 30 seconds). There will be quite a few statistics, and we'll be
> > adding new servers over time, and since there won't be the option to
> > scroll a full-screen web-page won't work.
> > 
> > What then would be my options to create a full-screen display of
> > statistics, and an attractive graphical way, using Python on OS X?
> 
>  matplotlib should serve you well. Or you use some web-based solution 
>  with a javascript-based chart library. This might be even a bit
>  easier.

I'd use pygame for a really clean full screen display.

Probably a bit more work, but you'll get something really cool at the
end of it!

here is how to use matplotlib on a pygame surface

  http://www.pygame.org/wiki/MatplotlibPygame

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