[SciPy-user] plotting question

[Fernando Perez]

matt wrote:
> I read the wikki plotting tutorial and was left with a few questions.  
> I want my code to automatically generate plots and dump them to files 
> instead of displaying them.  Any old image format or pdf would be fine. 
>   Is there a way to do this?  I assume there must be since that 
> functionality is integral to gnuplot.  An example or pointer to one 
> would be very useful.  I'd be happy to add whatever I get to the 
> plotting tutorial on the wikki.

<plug ahead>

ipython, which I referred to before, comes with gnuplot integration, and it 
includes enhancements to the default plot() command to ease up automatic eps 
generation.  If you say plot(x,y,filename='foo.eps'), you automatically get 
eps output instead of on-screen display.  There are examples in the manual, 
and I can mail you more if you need.  You can just browse the html manual on 
the ipython.scipy.org site for a feel of how it works.

Regards,

f