How to plot

[Andrew Z]

 Rrhank you Thomas.

On Oct 27, 2017 04:23, "Thomas Jollans" <tjol at tjol.eu> wrote:

> On 2017-10-27 07:18, Andrew Z wrote:
> > Hello,
> >  i'd like to create a graph/plot based a DB table's data, but not sure
> > where to start. I
> >
> >  also would like to have the following functionality:
> >  a. i'd like to have it in the separate window ( xwindow to be precise).
> >  b. and i'd like to have the graph updating with every record added to
> the
> > table.
> >
> > The workflow:
> >  a. main code is running and occasionally adding records to the table
> >  b. graph gets updated "automagically" and is shown in a separate from
> the
> > main terminal window.
> >
> > Main program does not have GUI, nor is Web based, just runs in the
> terminal
> > on Xwindows.
> >
> > i don't' really care about cross-platform compability and only want to
> run
> > that on linux xwindows.
> >
> > Thank you for your advise.
> >
>
> Matplotlib <https://matplotlib.org/> is the standard Python plotting
> library, and it has GUI backends (Tk, Qt, Gtk, ...) that should be
> perfectly suitable for your purposes.
>
> The API maybe takes some getting used to, but there are plenty of
> examples to be found around the web, and the main documentation is quite
> good.
>
> If you need the plots to update quickly (it doesn't sound like it) then
> you might need to luck into something else, like pyqtgraph or vispy.
>
>
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