Django-dataplot News

This new release is now available with these features:

Support for plots made with generic command line tools via the shellscript backend.

Nice error handling when settings.DEBUG is off: exceptions are caught and displayed on the webpage instead of the plot (rather than throwing a 500 internal server error page).

R plots take on a value for r_code_filename of "class.name.R" by default, where class_name is the name of the subclass of dataplot.R.Plot (previously there was no default and you had to minimally specify r_code_filename).... read more

By working with the RPy team, I finally resolved a bug with rpy that was causing a segfault when unicode strings were passed to R. Consequently, I've been working on Django-dataplot development vigorously over the past week.

I am now planning on trying to make Django-dataplot compatible with the SVN development versions of both Django and RPy.

Here is a list of a few new features planned for release 0.4, which are now present in Django-dataplot SVN:
- Shellscript backend streamlines plot generation from generic external command line programs.
- Nice error handling when settings.DEBUG is off makes for easier debugging.
- R backend automatically assumes same R function name as python class name (convention over configuration).... read more

Django-dataplot has been posted to SF for a few weeks now, and there are a few downloads registered for version 0.3. If you have any support questions, please email me directly: Toby Dylan Hocking, tdhock AT users.sf.net. I'm currently working on some new features (some of which have already been checked into svn) and I will mark a snapshot as 0.4 when new features seem to be stable and portable.