[PYTHONMAC-SIG] Basic plotting using Python on the Mac
David Ascher
da@maigret.cog.brown.edu
Thu, 18 Sep 1997 23:19:44 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Anthony M. Ingraldi wrote:
> If you don't mind using an external application to do the plotting via
> AppleEvents, you can use the Macintosh port of gnuplot. I have used this
> approach and it is quite workable. You can even use python to act as a
> console window for gnuplot and send it plot commands interactively as you
> would in the UNIX version.
>
> I can send you the python modules that I put together to interact with
> gnuplot if you would like. The application itself is available at
>
> http://www.ee.gatech.edu/users/schooley/gnuplot.html
>
> Since gnuplot is available on multiple platforms, it would be possible to
> write a high-level interface for it that would hide the actual mechanism of
> interapplication communication. I've not gone that far with my modules.
Konrad Hinsen has also written a Gnuplot module which I believe he'll
mention at SPAM-6, and I had a similar module (not worth sharing). Good
topic for the PLOT-SIG...
--david
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