Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module
Nick Craig-Wood
nick at craig-wood.com
Tue Sep 22 04:29:51 EDT 2009
John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for something that can draw simple bar and pie charts
> in Python. I'm trying to find a Python package, not a wrapper for
> some C library, as this has to run on both Windows and Linux
> and version clashes are a problem.
>
> Here's the list from the Python wiki at
> "http://wiki.python.org/moin/NumericAndScientific/Plotting".
> Almost all the options are really wrappers for some other
> package in C/C++.
[snip]
> So, for pure Python, Pychart is it. I'll have to try it and see if it still
> works.
I don't think anyone has mentioned reportlab... It can plot charts I
think, though last time I used it I plotted stuff by hand as I wanted
exact control over the layout.
I'm not sure of the dependencies though so may not be suitable for
your purposes.
http://www.reportlab.org/rl_toolkit.html
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