Just drawing lines and plotting points?

[rantingrick]

On Jan 26, 9:38 pm, Terry Reedy <tjre... at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 1/26/2010 7:54 PM, Chris Rebert wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Someone Something<fordhai... at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >> Hello,
>
> >> I need a python library that makes drawing lines and plotting points (these
> >> two things are the only things I need to do) easy. Or, how can I do
> >> something like this with pygame? Basically, what I want to do is make
> >> graphs. In pygame, since the coordinate system switches the x's and the y's
> >> I would have to switch them again when I plot my points so my graphs look
> >> okay. I hope this was enough info for me to get a good answer.
>
> > matplotlib, perhaps?:http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/
>
> or dislin?

it doesn't get any easier than the tkCanvas widget...

import Tkinter as tk
#import tkinter as tk #python3.0+
app = tk.Tk()
canvas = tk.Canvas(app)
canvas.pack()
canvas.create_line(sx,sy, ex,ey)
#...
#...
app.mainloop()