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The GUI neutral animation example from the SciPy cookbook doesn't seem  
to work for Wx or WxAgg backends. A plot window opens but nothing  
happens. It appears to be some weird problem with ion on wx.

For example, the following code will run and immediately close:
 >>> plt.ion()
 >>> plt.plot(x, y)
 >>> plt.show()
After removing plt.ion(), a plot window is opened and the program  
doesn't end until the window is closed (as expected).

If I use TkAgg or Qt4Agg (the only other GUI backends I have  
installed) the examples (above and below) work as expected.

-Tony

Full Example:
#~~~~
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('WxAgg')
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

plt.ion()
x = np.arange(0, 2*np.pi, 0.01)
line, = plt.plot(x, np.sin(x))
for i in np.arange(1, 20):
     line.set_ydata(np.sin(x + i/10.0))
     plt.draw()
#~~~~

PS. This seems to work the same on both trunk and 0.98.3.

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:35 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:
> You could use the (admittedly inscrutable) "unzip" technique:
>
> ax.plot_date(*zip(*items))
>
> See this blog post for explanation:
>
> http://paddy3118.blogspot.com/2007/02/unzip-un-needed-in-python.html
>
> If you use Numpy arrays, of course, you could use slicing, which, IMHO,
> is clearer:
>
> items = numpy.asarray(items)
> ax.plot_date(items[:,0], items[:,1])

if items is a numpy array you can even do:
>>> pylab.plot(*items.T)

>
> Mike
>
> Thomas Guettler wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I use the API of matplotlib and have a basic problem:
>>
>> Up to now I am used to gather my data into a list of tuples. But
>> matplotlib uses serveral lists instead.
>>
>> Example:
>>   me: [(date1, count1), (date2, count2), ...]
>>   matplotlib: ax.plot_date(dates, counts)
>>
>> Finally I use something like this quite often:
>>    method([item[0] for item in items], [item[1] for item in items])
>> But I think thats to much looping.
>>
>> That's my personal problem, but I think a more pythonic
>> API would be nice...
>>
>>   Thomas
>>
>>
>
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> Science Software Branch
> Operations and Engineering Division
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> Operated by AURA for NASA
>
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On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Ryan May <rm...@gm...> wrote:
> I'll comment that the new site looks absolutely awesome.  I've turned
> quite a few heads around here when I show people the new site and docs,
> especially the gallery. Great work guys!
>
> One question, how is the list of "plotting commands" on the main page
> generated?  Is it just the pyplot API?  Right now I know at the very
> least it does not list "barbs" as a plotting command.

Right now it is just manually generated and should cover the pyplot
module and may be out of date.  I started working on a set of tables,
of all the commands in pylab, organized by the module they come from,
with links to the docs (eg to the numpy docs for numpy commands) but
haven't finished.  If you would like to update anything missing from
the table (doc/_templates/index.html) that would be great.

JDH

I'll comment that the new site looks absolutely awesome.  I've turned
quite a few heads around here when I show people the new site and docs,
especially the gallery. Great work guys!

One question, how is the list of "plotting commands" on the main page
generated?  Is it just the pyplot API?  Right now I know at the very
least it does not list "barbs" as a plotting command.

Ryan

Michael Droettboom wrote:
> Fixed.  These errors were all in new content.
> 
> Any comments on the content? ... :)
> 
> Xavier Gnata wrote:
>> ok.
>> It is way better now but still:
>> http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmatplotlib.sourceforge.net%2F&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0 
>>
>>
>> hum I should spend some time on this because:
>> http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmatplotlib.sourceforge.net%2Fgallery.html&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.591 
>>
>>
>> but this gallery is so nice...
>>
>> Xavier
>>
>>> This has now been fixed in SVN.
>>>
>>> index.html is the only page that includes hand-written HTML.  If you 
>>> see any errors of this nature on other pages, please file bugs with 
>>> Sphinx and/or docutils.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> Xavier Gnata wrote:
>>>> Looks great but there are too many errors:
>>>> http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmatplotlib.sourceforge.net%2F&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm not a geek and I do not care about w3c small warnings but it 
>>>> would be so nice to have a xhtml compliant website (as close as 
>>>> possible)
>>>>
>>>>  From an "artistic" point of view, I would put more emphasis on the 
>>>> screenshot (pylab purpose is to produce *very* nice images...)
>>>>
>>>> xavier
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>> We've been working behind the scenes on a new documentation system for
>>>>> matplotlib, which integrates the web site, API documentation and PDF
>>>>> guide into a single source of sphinx/rest documents which are easier
>>>>> to maintain and extend, hopefully leading to better and more
>>>>> up-to-date docs.
>>>>>
>>>>> We went live with the new site yesterday:
>>>>>
>>>>>   http://matplotlib.sf.net
>>>>>
>>>>> so check it out and let us know if something is broken or missing.  We
>>>>> don't have everything that was on the old site (some stuff from the
>>>>> FAQ, "what's new" and "user's guide" has not been ported over) but we
>>>>> do have should be current, searchable, indexed and cross-linked.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks to Darren Dale who spear-headed the effort to use the sphinx
>>>>> documentation, and to the developers who have contributed, especially
>>>>> Michael Droettboom, who has developed several nice sphinx extensions
>>>>> to do inheritance diagrams, syntax highlighting of ipython sessions,
>>>>> and inline plotting.  As an example we can include plots in our API
>>>>> documentation, see
>>>>>
>>>>>   
>>>>> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.acorr 
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> We embed these plots with a "plot" directive that generates the
>>>>> figures from external code at documentation build time, which
>>>>> guarantees that the example code you see in the docs generate the
>>>>> figures you see in the docs.  For example, in the acorr docstring, all
>>>>> we have to do is::
>>>>>
>>>>>         **Example:**
>>>>>
>>>>>         .. plot:: ../mpl_examples/pylab_examples/xcorr_demo.py
>>>>>
>>>>> and the figure and source code links automagically appear in the docs.
>>>>>
>>>>> Because some of these extensions are generally useful, Michael,
>>>>> Fernando and I have been working on a "sphinx_template" which contains
>>>>> the template of a sphinx documentation project with these extensions
>>>>> in place, so people who want to get started using sphinx (the official
>>>>> documentation system for python, numpy, ipython and matplotlib) can do
>>>>> so more easily.  Right now it is available in svn
>>>>>
>>>>>   > svn co 
>>>>> https://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/matplotlib/trunk/py4science/examples/sphinx_template2 
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> and see the README in the checkout directory.  Michael also did a talk
>>>>> on matplotlib's use of sphinx and the sphinx template at the last
>>>>> scipy conference.  We're still waiting for the videos of the talks to
>>>>> be posted (can someone poke someone?)  but you can see the talk PDF
>>>>> from the proceedings here:
>>>>>
>>>>>   http://conference.scipy.org/proceedings/SciPy2008/paper_6/
>>>>>
>>>>> JDH
>>>>>
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Hi
I'm getting the traceback

>>> from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap

/home/myeates/lib/python2.6/site-packages/httplib2/__init__.py:44: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
  import sha
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/myeates/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mpl_toolkits/basemap/__init__.py", line 39, in <module>
    import _geoslib, pupynere, netcdftime
  File "/home/myeates/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mpl_toolkits/basemap/pupynere.py", line 37, in <module>
    from dap.client import open as open_remote
  File "/home/myeates/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dap/client.py", line 4, in <module>
    from dap.util.http import openurl
  File "/home/myeates/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dap/util/http.py", line 3, in <module>
    import httplib2
File "/home/myeates/lib/python2.6/site-packages/httplib2/__init__.py", line 717, in <module>
    class HTTPSConnectionWithTimeout(httplib.HTTPSConnection):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'HTTPSConnection'


anyone what this is about?

Mathew

This has now been fixed in SVN.  See the 
example/pylab_examples/image_clip_path.py for usage.

Mike

Federico Milano wrote:
> Dear Mike,
>
> thanks a lot for the information.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Federico
>
>
>
> Michael Droettboom wrote:
>   
>> Unfortunately, clip paths are not implemented for the Agg backend.  
>> Other backends (Ps, Pdf, Svg) may work, but I haven't tried that in a 
>> while.
>>
>> I've spent a few tries trying to come up with the magic Agg 
>> incantation to make this work.  It's not really documented in Agg, but 
>> it should theoretically be possible.  It would take someone probably 
>> to dig through the Agg source code and figure it out.  Any volunteers? ;)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mike
>>
>> Federico Milano wrote:
>>     
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> I am a new user of python and of matplotlib, so, please excuse me if I
>>> am asking a trivial question.
>>>
>>> I am trying to use the funciton imshow to plot a temperature map of the
>>> voltage levels of an electrical grid.  After creating the grid data
>>> using "meshgrid" and "griddata" functions, "imshow" works nicely and
>>> fills up the whoe axes box.
>>>
>>> Since, I also have the border line of the electrical grid (in the form
>>> of a closed polygon coordinates), my next step is to clip the
>>> temperature map using this polygon as a patch.  Thus, I have created a
>>> Path instance with the polygon coordinates, subsequently, a PathPatch
>>> instance, say "patch".
>>>
>>> Finally, I call the imshow function using the Artist options
>>> "clip_on=True" and "clip_path=patch".  I was expecting that imshow would
>>> have filed up only the region inside the polygon, but imshow is still
>>> mapping the full figure axis box, i.e., the plots with and without the
>>> clip_path option are identical.
>>>
>>> What am I missing or doing wrong?
>>>
>>> Thank you very much in advance for any help,
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Federico
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Operated by AURA for NASA

Hi,

I don't think this is possible - but I wanted to check in case I'm
missing something.

Is there a way of changing the appearance of the plot interactively?
I'm thinking of things like dragging the position of a legend, right
clicking to be able to insert a text box or access properties of the
axes etc like with Matlab.

The programmatic interface is great - but, as just happened, I often
find myself trying to drag the legend out of the way by force of
habit!

Thanks,

Robin

You could use the (admittedly inscrutable) "unzip" technique:

ax.plot_date(*zip(*items))

See this blog post for explanation:

http://paddy3118.blogspot.com/2007/02/unzip-un-needed-in-python.html

If you use Numpy arrays, of course, you could use slicing, which, IMHO, 
is clearer:

items = numpy.asarray(items)
ax.plot_date(items[:,0], items[:,1])

Mike

Thomas Guettler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use the API of matplotlib and have a basic problem:
>
> Up to now I am used to gather my data into a list of tuples. But
> matplotlib uses serveral lists instead.
>
> Example:
>   me: [(date1, count1), (date2, count2), ...]
>   matplotlib: ax.plot_date(dates, counts)
>
> Finally I use something like this quite often:
>    method([item[0] for item in items], [item[1] for item in items])
> But I think thats to much looping.
>
> That's my personal problem, but I think a more pythonic
> API would be nice...
>
>   Thomas
>
>   

-- 
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Science Software Branch
Operations and Engineering Division
Space Telescope Science Institute
Operated by AURA for NASA

Hi Michael,

2008/10/22 Michael Droettboom <md...@st...>:
> You need to "rewind" the StringIO cursor before opening with PIL:
>
> imgdata = StringIO.StringIO()
> fig.savefig(imgdata, format='png')
> imgdata.seek(0)
> im = Image.open(imgdata)

Thanks. It works fine now.

Best regards,
Jesper

Fixed.  These errors were all in new content.

Any comments on the content? ... :)

Xavier Gnata wrote:
> ok.
> It is way better now but still:
> http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmatplotlib.sourceforge.net%2F&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0 
>
>
> hum I should spend some time on this because:
> http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmatplotlib.sourceforge.net%2Fgallery.html&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.591 
>
>
> but this gallery is so nice...
>
> Xavier
>
>> This has now been fixed in SVN.
>>
>> index.html is the only page that includes hand-written HTML.  If you 
>> see any errors of this nature on other pages, please file bugs with 
>> Sphinx and/or docutils.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mike
>>
>> Xavier Gnata wrote:
>>> Looks great but there are too many errors:
>>> http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmatplotlib.sourceforge.net%2F&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0 
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not a geek and I do not care about w3c small warnings but it 
>>> would be so nice to have a xhtml compliant website (as close as 
>>> possible)
>>>
>>>  From an "artistic" point of view, I would put more emphasis on the 
>>> screenshot (pylab purpose is to produce *very* nice images...)
>>>
>>> xavier
>>>
>>>
>>>  
>>>> We've been working behind the scenes on a new documentation system for
>>>> matplotlib, which integrates the web site, API documentation and PDF
>>>> guide into a single source of sphinx/rest documents which are easier
>>>> to maintain and extend, hopefully leading to better and more
>>>> up-to-date docs.
>>>>
>>>> We went live with the new site yesterday:
>>>>
>>>>   http://matplotlib.sf.net
>>>>
>>>> so check it out and let us know if something is broken or missing.  We
>>>> don't have everything that was on the old site (some stuff from the
>>>> FAQ, "what's new" and "user's guide" has not been ported over) but we
>>>> do have should be current, searchable, indexed and cross-linked.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks to Darren Dale who spear-headed the effort to use the sphinx
>>>> documentation, and to the developers who have contributed, especially
>>>> Michael Droettboom, who has developed several nice sphinx extensions
>>>> to do inheritance diagrams, syntax highlighting of ipython sessions,
>>>> and inline plotting.  As an example we can include plots in our API
>>>> documentation, see
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.acorr 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We embed these plots with a "plot" directive that generates the
>>>> figures from external code at documentation build time, which
>>>> guarantees that the example code you see in the docs generate the
>>>> figures you see in the docs.  For example, in the acorr docstring, all
>>>> we have to do is::
>>>>
>>>>         **Example:**
>>>>
>>>>         .. plot:: ../mpl_examples/pylab_examples/xcorr_demo.py
>>>>
>>>> and the figure and source code links automagically appear in the docs.
>>>>
>>>> Because some of these extensions are generally useful, Michael,
>>>> Fernando and I have been working on a "sphinx_template" which contains
>>>> the template of a sphinx documentation project with these extensions
>>>> in place, so people who want to get started using sphinx (the official
>>>> documentation system for python, numpy, ipython and matplotlib) can do
>>>> so more easily.  Right now it is available in svn
>>>>
>>>>   > svn co 
>>>> https://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/matplotlib/trunk/py4science/examples/sphinx_template2 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> and see the README in the checkout directory.  Michael also did a talk
>>>> on matplotlib's use of sphinx and the sphinx template at the last
>>>> scipy conference.  We're still waiting for the videos of the talks to
>>>> be posted (can someone poke someone?)  but you can see the talk PDF
>>>> from the proceedings here:
>>>>
>>>>   http://conference.scipy.org/proceedings/SciPy2008/paper_6/
>>>>
>>>> JDH
>>>>
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>>>>
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Operations and Engineering Division
Space Telescope Science Institute
Operated by AURA for NASA

Hi,

I use the API of matplotlib and have a basic problem:

Up to now I am used to gather my data into a list of tuples. But
matplotlib uses serveral lists instead.

Example:
  me: [(date1, count1), (date2, count2), ...]
  matplotlib: ax.plot_date(dates, counts)

Finally I use something like this quite often:
   method([item[0] for item in items], [item[1] for item in items])
But I think thats to much looping.

That's my personal problem, but I think a more pythonic
API would be nice...

  Thomas

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I'm not aware of that problem.  It should convert any PNG implicitly to 
our native RGBA format.  Can you provide a PNG file that illustrates the 
breakage?

Mike

David Warde-Farley wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I noticed that MPL's imread() command, when applied to binary (1-bit  
> grayscale) PNGs does some serious mangling.
>
> Anyone know what's going on, or is it just that only RGBA PNG's are  
> supported?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
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Hi mpl users,

I get some strange results when I make a quiver plot of a masked
array. This script:

from numpy.ma import zeros, masked_values
from pylab import quiver, savefig
a = masked_values(zeros((5,5)), 0)
quiver(a,a)
savefig('test.png')

gives me a plot which has 25 horizontal arrows (although they look
strange). It should give me a plot without any arrows. Is this a bug
in matplotlib (I am using 0.98.3)?

Best regards,
Jesper

John [H2O] wrote:
> Hello, 
>
> I'm creating a web application that will take user input from a javascript
> map to give me bounding coordinates (i.e. urcrnrlat, urcrnrlon, llcrnrlat,
> llcrnrlon) and possibly a switch for polar projection. Other than that I
> have no further information. Which projection is the most suitable to handle
> anything from a 'global' plot to a zoom say over a state? I don't see the
> zoom being too tight, but global projections are likely. I personally prefer
> Equal Area, hence right now I'm working with 'aeqd', but I seem to have
> problems if the plot is global with that projection.
>
> Just looking for advice, opinions, and ideally examples if anyone has
> created a similar function / module to use in a web environment.
>
> Thanks!
> -john
>   
John:  Sounds like you need one of the global cylindrical projections, 
such as cylindrical equidistant ('cyl'), miller ('mill') or mercator 
('merc').  In the svn version, you also have Gall Stereographic 
('gall').   See 
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/basemap/doc/html/users/mapsetup.html 
for examples.  Unfortunately, none of them are equal-area.  Mollweide 
('moll') is a global equal-area projection, but it's only global (you 
can't specify a domain that isn't global).  For the polar option, I 
suggest polar lambert azimuthal equal-area 
(http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/basemap/doc/html/users/plaea.html).  
The user can specify whether he/she wants the south or north polar 
aspect, and the latitude of the outer edge.

-Jeff

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ok.
It is way better now but still:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmatplotlib.sourceforge.net%2F&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0

hum I should spend some time on this because:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmatplotlib.sourceforge.net%2Fgallery.html&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.591

but this gallery is so nice...

Xavier

> This has now been fixed in SVN.
>
> index.html is the only page that includes hand-written HTML.  If you 
> see any errors of this nature on other pages, please file bugs with 
> Sphinx and/or docutils.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
>
> Xavier Gnata wrote:
>> Looks great but there are too many errors:
>> http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmatplotlib.sourceforge.net%2F&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0 
>>
>>
>> I'm not a geek and I do not care about w3c small warnings but it 
>> would be so nice to have a xhtml compliant website (as close as 
>> possible)
>>
>>  From an "artistic" point of view, I would put more emphasis on the 
>> screenshot (pylab purpose is to produce *very* nice images...)
>>
>> xavier
>>
>>
>>  
>>> We've been working behind the scenes on a new documentation system for
>>> matplotlib, which integrates the web site, API documentation and PDF
>>> guide into a single source of sphinx/rest documents which are easier
>>> to maintain and extend, hopefully leading to better and more
>>> up-to-date docs.
>>>
>>> We went live with the new site yesterday:
>>>
>>>   http://matplotlib.sf.net
>>>
>>> so check it out and let us know if something is broken or missing.  We
>>> don't have everything that was on the old site (some stuff from the
>>> FAQ, "what's new" and "user's guide" has not been ported over) but we
>>> do have should be current, searchable, indexed and cross-linked.
>>>
>>> Thanks to Darren Dale who spear-headed the effort to use the sphinx
>>> documentation, and to the developers who have contributed, especially
>>> Michael Droettboom, who has developed several nice sphinx extensions
>>> to do inheritance diagrams, syntax highlighting of ipython sessions,
>>> and inline plotting.  As an example we can include plots in our API
>>> documentation, see
>>>
>>>   
>>> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.acorr 
>>>
>>>
>>> We embed these plots with a "plot" directive that generates the
>>> figures from external code at documentation build time, which
>>> guarantees that the example code you see in the docs generate the
>>> figures you see in the docs.  For example, in the acorr docstring, all
>>> we have to do is::
>>>
>>>         **Example:**
>>>
>>>         .. plot:: ../mpl_examples/pylab_examples/xcorr_demo.py
>>>
>>> and the figure and source code links automagically appear in the docs.
>>>
>>> Because some of these extensions are generally useful, Michael,
>>> Fernando and I have been working on a "sphinx_template" which contains
>>> the template of a sphinx documentation project with these extensions
>>> in place, so people who want to get started using sphinx (the official
>>> documentation system for python, numpy, ipython and matplotlib) can do
>>> so more easily.  Right now it is available in svn
>>>
>>>   > svn co 
>>> https://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/matplotlib/trunk/py4science/examples/sphinx_template2 
>>>
>>>
>>> and see the README in the checkout directory.  Michael also did a talk
>>> on matplotlib's use of sphinx and the sphinx template at the last
>>> scipy conference.  We're still waiting for the videos of the talks to
>>> be posted (can someone poke someone?)  but you can see the talk PDF
>>> from the proceedings here:
>>>
>>>   http://conference.scipy.org/proceedings/SciPy2008/paper_6/
>>>
>>> JDH
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Howdy,

I noticed that MPL's imread() command, when applied to binary (1-bit  
grayscale) PNGs does some serious mangling.

Anyone know what's going on, or is it just that only RGBA PNG's are  
supported?

Thanks,

David

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:04 AM, Jouni K. Seppänen <jk...@ik...> wrote:

> "David Krapohl" <dav...@gm...>
> writes:
>
> > I am getting an error with savefig and pdf when I try to used matplotlib
> > with latex font rendering (attached below). In etc/matplotlibrc, I set
> > text.latex.preamble : \usepackage{MinionPro},
> > \renewcommand{\sfdefault}{Myriad-LF}
> > It seems that the dviread backend does not find a specific *.vf,
> > MinionPro-It--lcdfj.vf to be specific,
> >  file that is not needed in my opinion. Any ideas how to solve that?
>
> Is that a commercial font? What exact files are installed when you
> install that font in your texmf tree? Can dvipdfm/dvipdfmx/dvipdft
> create a pdf file from a dvi file that uses this font?
>

It is an adobe font that is bundled with the Acrobat Reader. It is an otf
font that was converted with "cfftot1" to *.pfb postscript font. Font
metrics and scripts can be downloaded at
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/minionpro/
I use it very often and so far I didn't have problems.


>
> >From your backtrace, it looks like dviread fails to parse a tfm file:
>
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/dviread.py", line
> 398,
> > in __init__
> >     for char in range(0, max(tfm.width)) ]
> > ValueError: max() arg is an empty sequence
>

Yes, with --verbose-debug-annoying I can see that it stops at:
find_tex_file: MinionPro-It--lcdfj.vf ->
Followed by the same error message as in the first post. Unfortunately the
vf-file is not there but the tfm file. As far as I know does this file
describe the dotless-j for whatever reasons. So I think this particular file
is not very important for math output.


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David Krapohl

"David Krapohl" <dav...@gm...>
writes:

> I am getting an error with savefig and pdf when I try to used matplotlib
> with latex font rendering (attached below). In etc/matplotlibrc, I set
> text.latex.preamble : \usepackage{MinionPro},
> \renewcommand{\sfdefault}{Myriad-LF}
> It seems that the dviread backend does not find a specific *.vf,
> MinionPro-It--lcdfj.vf to be specific,
>  file that is not needed in my opinion. Any ideas how to solve that?

Is that a commercial font? What exact files are installed when you
install that font in your texmf tree? Can dvipdfm/dvipdfmx/dvipdft
create a pdf file from a dvi file that uses this font?

>From your backtrace, it looks like dviread fails to parse a tfm file:

>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/dviread.py", line 398,
> in __init__
>     for char in range(0, max(tfm.width)) ]
> ValueError: max() arg is an empty sequence

-- 
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http://www.iki.fi/jks

My program runs through a loop and is supposed to re-plot the graph after
each step (which includes a pause of 1 second). I can't get the plot to
refresh. I wrote the following simple program which has the same problem. I
tried both  draw() nor f.canvas.draw() works. I'm running it from ipython
-pylab

A similar problem was encountered here:
http://www.nabble.com/Plotting-loop-refuses-to-update-display-on-OS-X-td19818020.html
but I still don't know what to do.

### teststuff.py

import pylab
import time

def testRef():
    f = pylab.figure()
    ax = pylab.gca()
    pylab.show()
    for x in range(10):
        ax.axhline(x)
        time.sleep(1)
#        pylab.draw()
        f.canvas.draw()
        
testRef()
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Hello, 

I'm creating a web application that will take user input from a javascript
map to give me bounding coordinates (i.e. urcrnrlat, urcrnrlon, llcrnrlat,
llcrnrlon) and possibly a switch for polar projection. Other than that I
have no further information. Which projection is the most suitable to handle
anything from a 'global' plot to a zoom say over a state? I don't see the
zoom being too tight, but global projections are likely. I personally prefer
Equal Area, hence right now I'm working with 'aeqd', but I seem to have
problems if the plot is global with that projection.

Just looking for advice, opinions, and ideally examples if anyone has
created a similar function / module to use in a web environment.

Thanks!
-john
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Hello,
I am getting an error with savefig and pdf when I try to used matplotlib
with latex font rendering (attached below). In etc/matplotlibrc, I set
text.latex.preamble : \usepackage{MinionPro},
\renewcommand{\sfdefault}{Myriad-LF}
It seems that the dviread backend does not find a specific *.vf,
MinionPro-It--lcdfj.vf to be specific,
 file that is not needed in my opinion. Any ideas how to solve that?
Thanks,
David

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call
last):
  File "niotrode_tipz.py", line 71, in
<module>

p.savefig('niotrode_impedance_plot.pdf')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 342, in
savefig
    return fig.savefig(*args,
**kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/figure.py", line 964, in
savefig
    self.canvas.print_figure(*args,
**kwargs)
  File
"/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_qt4agg.py",
line 147, in
print_figure

    FigureCanvasAgg.print_figure(self, *args,
**kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/backend_bases.py", line
1310, in print_figure

**kwargs)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/backend_bases.py", line
1204, in print_pdf
    return pdf.print_pdf(*args,
**kwargs)
  File
"/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py", line
1864, in print_pdf

self.figure.draw(renderer)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/figure.py", line 759, in
draw
    for a in self.axes:
a.draw(renderer)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py", line 1523, in
draw

a.draw(renderer)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/axis.py", line 733, in
draw

self.label.draw(renderer)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/text.py", line 299, in
draw
    bbox, info =
self._get_layout(renderer)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/text.py", line 199, in
_get_layout
    line, self._fontproperties,
ismath=self.is_math_text(line))
  File
"/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py", line
1560, in
get_text_width_height_descent

    page =
iter(dvi).next()

  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/dviread.py", line 62, in
__iter__
    have_page =
self._read()

  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/dviread.py", line 119,
in _read

self._dispatch(byte)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/dviread.py", line 207,
in _dispatch
    self._fnt_def(k, c, s, d, a, l,
n)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/dviread.py", line 368,
in _fnt_def
    vf =
_vffile(n[-l:])

  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/dviread.py", line 779,
in _vffile
    return _fontfile(texname, Vf, '.vf', _vfcache)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/dviread.py", line 768,
in _fontfile
    result = class_(filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/dviread.py", line 437,
in __init__
    self._read()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/dviread.py", line 119,
in _read
    self._dispatch(byte)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/dviread.py", line 466,
in _dispatch
    Dvi._dispatch(self, byte)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/dviread.py", line 207,
in _dispatch
    self._fnt_def(k, c, s, d, a, l, n)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/dviread.py", line 504,
in _fnt_def
    Dvi._fnt_def(self, k, *args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/dviread.py", line 368,
in _fnt_def
    vf = _vffile(n[-l:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/dviread.py", line 779,
in _vffile
    return _fontfile(texname, Vf, '.vf', _vfcache)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/dviread.py", line 768,
in _fontfile
    result = class_(filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/dviread.py", line 437,
in __init__
    self._read()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/dviread.py", line 119,
in _read
    self._dispatch(byte)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/dviread.py", line 466,
in _dispatch
    Dvi._dispatch(self, byte)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/dviread.py", line 207,
in _dispatch
    self._fnt_def(k, c, s, d, a, l, n)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/dviread.py", line 504,
in _fnt_def
    Dvi._fnt_def(self, k, *args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/dviread.py", line 370,
in _fnt_def
    self.fonts[k] = DviFont(scale=s, tfm=tfm, texname=n, vf=vf)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/dviread.py", line 398,
in __init__
    for char in range(0, max(tfm.width)) ]
ValueError: max() arg is an empty sequence

Jesper Larsen wrote:
> Hi mpl users,
>
> I am trying to save a figure to a file like object (a StringIO object)
> and load this object into PIL (Python Imaging Library). The code for
> this is really simple (fig is my figure object):
>
> # This works
> fig.savefig('test.png', format='png')
> im = Image.open('test.png')
>
> # This fails
> imgdata = StringIO.StringIO()
> fig.savefig(imgdata, format='png')
> im = Image.open(imgdata)
>
>   File "/home/jl/testfile.py", line 551, in contour
>     im = Image.open(imgdata)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 1916, in open
>     raise IOError("cannot identify image file")
> IOError: cannot identify image file
>   
You need to "rewind" the StringIO cursor before opening with PIL:

imgdata = StringIO.StringIO()
fig.savefig(imgdata, format='png')
imgdata.seek(0)
im = Image.open(imgdata)


Hope that helps,
Mike

-- 
Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Operations and Engineering Division
Space Telescope Science Institute
Operated by AURA for NASA

Hi mpl users,

I am trying to save a figure to a file like object (a StringIO object)
and load this object into PIL (Python Imaging Library). The code for
this is really simple (fig is my figure object):

# This works
fig.savefig('test.png', format='png')
im = Image.open('test.png')

# This fails
imgdata = StringIO.StringIO()
fig.savefig(imgdata, format='png')
im = Image.open(imgdata)

  File "/home/jl/testfile.py", line 551, in contour
    im = Image.open(imgdata)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 1916, in open
    raise IOError("cannot identify image file")
IOError: cannot identify image file

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? I would really like to avoid
putting the image on disk before opening it in PIL since I am using
the code in a web application where speed is important.

Best regards,
Jesper

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Anthony Floyd <ant...@gm...> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:
>> Some of the documentation has not yet been reformatted to reST for Sphinx.
>>
>> There is a status page here:
>>
>> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/devel/outline.html
>
> Ah, thanks!
>
> [snip]
>
>> As to whether we provide the old docs in parallel -- I'll leave that
>> question to the John or others.

I think it is a good idea to put a copy of the pydoc autogenerated
module docs up, but I won't be able to get to it until next week.
Ditto for the old user's guide.

In the meantime, I've added matplotlib.ticker to the new docs:

  http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/ticker_api.html

JDH

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:
> Some of the documentation has not yet been reformatted to reST for Sphinx.
>
> There is a status page here:
>
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/devel/outline.html

Ah, thanks!

[snip]

> As to whether we provide the old docs in parallel -- I'll leave that
> question to the John or others.

I think that it's critical that documentation is not 'lost' (even
temporarily) during the conversion process.  Especially for novices or
even for just quick class-checking for advanced users.  And while I
suppose people who really need the documentation will run epydoc
against it themselves (guilty) it seems odd to have a reduction of
information on the website.

Just my $0.02.  Keep up the good work!

A>