[Chicago] [ChiPy-announce] Graphing library

[Garrett Smith]

That is pretty freakin' awesome. Will take a look. 

(And sorry for posting to the wrong list -- hard to keep track of all these Chipy channels.) 

----- "Rob Kapteyn" <robkapteyn at gmail.com> wrote: 
> matplotlib is easily the most awesome -- and it was done by Chicago's John Hunter who did a ChiPy presentation on it 2-3 years ago. 

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http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/ 
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The main caveat is that it that it can be a bit confusing to set it up the first time. 
it requires numpy and a bunch some external font tools and libraries. 
It has a lot of flexibility -- i.e., you can generate graphics files or interact with a GUI in real time. 
My experience is that it is very fast and efficient -- once you get it set up. 

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-Rob 

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On Jan 15, 2009, at 10:42 AM, Garrett Smith wrote: 




> Any thoughts on the most awesomest graphing library for Python? 
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> I need something that's free of weird commercial licenses, obviously. 
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> Simple APIs are preferred. Performance and efficiency are very important. The ability to create pretty pictures is a bonus, but this is first for foremost for utility. 
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> Most, if not all, of the data will be time series. 
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> I'm using rrdtools, which of course is very good for managing and graphing time series data. This may ultimately be the right course, but I'm wondering if anyone has some insight into some other options in the Python world. 
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> Thanks for any input! 
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> Garrett 
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