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With the current svn, I cannot reproduce the problem, i.e., bars with
0 height are correctly displayed. The x-range is incorrectly set, but
it is not clear if this is what you meant.

Can you post a screenshot of your figure? Also, version of your
matplotlib will be helpful.

Regards,

-JJ



On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:46 PM, b b <coo...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> While creating bar plots I found that bars with height 0 are not being
> displayed. Their space is distributed evenly between the other
> columns.
>
> Sample script:
> /--------------------------------------
> from pylab import *
> import sys
> figure(8)
> if(sys.argv[1].lower() == 'y'):
>    bar([0, 1, 0, 0, 0], [0, 1, 0, 0, 0])
> else:
>    bar([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], [1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
> show()
> \--------------------------------------
>
> Try it with argument 'y' and without.
>
> So far I didn't find a solution. '0' is not an easy thing to google
> :-) Anyone got an idea?
>
> Cheers, B.
>
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2010/3/24 Jonno <jon...@gm...>:
> Well I realized my error with the extra window being caused by the
> TopLevel() command. I switched this to Tk.Tk() and it works nicely.
> However I still have to pack the frame instead of using grid. I can
> work around this but I wonder if there isn't something else I'm
> missing.

If I'm not completely mistaken you can .grid() your Frame as well, but
you might have to .columnconfigure() and/or .rowconfigure() the Tk
instance with argument weight = 1 or something integer positive, to
make the row containing the plot not collapse to zero?

The main problem is, that the NavigationToolbar2TkAgg actually in
matplotlib.backends.backend_tkagg.py:681 calls self.pack(side =
Tkinter.BOTTOM, fill = Tk.X), where the toolbar is actually derived
from Tkinter.Frame.  This means, subclass and overload, or:

toolbar_frame = Tkinter.Frame(tl)
toolbar_frame.grid(column = 0, row = 1)

toolbar=NavigationToolbar2TkAgg(canvas, toolbar_frame)

Now I see why your script hangs, because when you try to pack() and
grid() widgets to the same master, Tk somehow hangs up without error
message, weird if you ask me.  But this I encounter often.

hth,
Friedrich

You must give a proper :param width: argument:

   plt.bar(bins, height, 0.01)

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.bar

Friedrich

2010/3/25 timothee cezard <tc...@st...>:
> Hi all,
> I'm trying to plot a distribution using bar() but when I'm setting the
> left variable to as a sequence of float some of the bar look weird.
> When I replace this sequence by a sequence of int it works fines
> Does anybody know why this happens and how I can fix it?
>
> Here is the code I'm using:
>
> if __name__=="__main__":
>    bins=[0.0, 0.02, 0.04, 0.06, 0.08, 0.1, 0.12, 0.14, 0.16,
>          0.18, 0.2, 0.22, 0.24, 0.26, 0.28, 0.30, 0.32, 0.34,
>          0.36, 0.38, 0.40, 0.42, 0.44, 0.46, 0.48, 0.5, 0.52,
>          0.54, 0.56, 0.58, 0.60, 0.62, 0.64, 0.66, 0.68, 0.70,
>          0.72, 0.74, 0.76, 0.78, 0.80, 0.82, 0.84, 0.86, 0.88,
>          0.90, 0.92, 0.94, 0.96, 0.98, 1.0]
>    height=[89775, 1665, 1791, 1695, 1467, 1395, 1306, 1169,
>            1252, 1134, 1190, 1117, 1018, 995, 1055, 904, 960,
>            886, 810, 821, 829, 763, 766, 857, 737, 862, 724,
>            852, 742, 644, 733, 679, 630, 672, 665, 659, 663,
>            653, 657, 700, 731, 721, 699, 871, 837, 913, 940,
>            966, 1028, 159774, 40002]
>    fig = plt.figure()
>    ax = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1)
>    plt.bar(bins, height)
>    plt.show()

Hi
I would expect
hgt=ma.masked_where(div == 0,hgt)
m.contourf(x,y,hgt,15,cmap=plt.cm.jet)

to produce a map complementary to the map produced by

hgt=ma.masked_where(div != 0,hgt)
m.contourf(x,y,hgt,15,cmap=plt.cm.jet)

But, this is not the case.
What am I missing?

Mathew

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Tom Kuiper <ku...@jp...> wrote:

> Greetings, everyone.
>
> I have some time tagged data spanning about three minutes with 4 ms
> resolution.  If I plot these with plot_data and focus in on some event
> at high resolution I lose the tick marks.  It seems that the minimum
> tick spacing is 1 sec.  That appears consistent with strftime which does
> not provide for fractional seconds.
>
> I thought I saw this issue go by not long ago but I don't recall the
> solution, if any.
>
> I'm using python 2.5.2 and matplotlib 1.1.0.
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> Tom
>

Hi,

As far as I know SecondLocator() is the smallest it gets for time-date
plotting in matplotlib. Probably a new class needs to be written for
MilliSecondLocator() in dates.py

Alternatively, you might use just floating-point version of your time values
and with a little adjustment (Ryan mentioned this in the recently, and will
forward there for other suggestions) millisecond resolutions should be
visible when zoomed in furthest.

Something like:

sci_fmt = plt.FormatStrFormatter("%.2f")
plt.gca().xaxis.set_major_formatter(sci_fmt)

By the way, where did you get mpl v1.1.0? Mine says:

In[19]: matplotlib.__version__
Out[19]: '1.0.svn'


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I would like to add tick labels to a 3d plot, but so far have had no
luck.  I would like to start with something like the bars3d example:
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/mplot3d/bars3d_demo.html

But I would like to have each bar chart labeled by its tick on the
y-axis.  The traditional ax.yaxis.set_ticklabels() method has no
effect, and the ax.yaxis.set_ticks() just messes up the output
catastrophically.

My attempt at modifying the example is below.  Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Jeff

-------------------
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

fig = plt.figure()
ax = Axes3D(fig)
for c, z in zip(['r', 'g', 'b', 'y'], [30, 20, 10, 0]):
    xs = np.arange(20)
    ys = np.random.rand(20)
    ax.bar(xs, ys, zs=z, zdir='y', color=c, alpha=0.8)

## My changes
ax.yaxis.set_ticks([0, 10, 20, 30]) # This totally screws things up
ax.yaxis.set_ticklabels(['first', 'second', 'third', 'fourth']) # This
does absolutely nothing
## End my changes

ax.set_xlabel('X')
ax.set_ylabel('Y')
ax.set_zlabel('Z')

plt.show()
------------------------

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|| University of Wisconsin -- Madison
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Hi all,
I'm trying to plot a distribution using bar() but when I'm setting the 
left variable to as a sequence of float some of the bar look weird.
When I replace this sequence by a sequence of int it works fines
Does anybody know why this happens and how I can fix it?

Here is the code I'm using:

if __name__=="__main__":
    bins=[0.0, 0.02, 0.04, 0.06, 0.08, 0.1, 0.12, 0.14, 0.16,
          0.18, 0.2, 0.22, 0.24, 0.26, 0.28, 0.30, 0.32, 0.34,
          0.36, 0.38, 0.40, 0.42, 0.44, 0.46, 0.48, 0.5, 0.52,
          0.54, 0.56, 0.58, 0.60, 0.62, 0.64, 0.66, 0.68, 0.70,
          0.72, 0.74, 0.76, 0.78, 0.80, 0.82, 0.84, 0.86, 0.88,
          0.90, 0.92, 0.94, 0.96, 0.98, 1.0]
    height=[89775, 1665, 1791, 1695, 1467, 1395, 1306, 1169,
            1252, 1134, 1190, 1117, 1018, 995, 1055, 904, 960,
            886, 810, 821, 829, 763, 766, 857, 737, 862, 724,
            852, 742, 644, 733, 679, 630, 672, 665, 659, 663,
            653, 657, 700, 731, 721, 699, 871, 837, 913, 940,
            966, 1028, 159774, 40002]
    fig = plt.figure()
    ax = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1)
    plt.bar(bins, height)
    plt.show()


Tim


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I finally found a binary package at rpm bones, so all is fine. Thank you very 
much.

lmkli wrote:
> Thank you!
> 
> I just thought there must be a solution.
> I saw someone posted he can modified contour.py to fix this, but I failed.
> :(
> 

What version of mpl are you using?  Are you modifying the default 
anti-aliasing in the patch collections that contour is creating? Are you 
seeing the problem when using the ps and pdf backends, or only with agg 
(that is, creating png files directly)?

There are two problems that can contribute to this, one related to the 
way the agg backend handles the boundaries between filled regions, and 
the other a bug in path simplification, which has been fixed in svn.

Eric


> 
> Marius 't Hart-3 wrote:
>> Actually, it does not draw the polygon edges, but leaves small gaps 
>> between them. Through those gaps you can see the background. (This also 
>> happens with polar plots and other polygons by the way.) I consider this 
>> a bug, though there are ways around it. For contour plots one can plot 
>> two contourplots over each other, one with different levels (or a 
>> different number of levels) than the other. Messy, but it works.
>>
>> Marius.
>>
>> lmkli wrote:
>>> When I use contourf to plot a filled contour map, I get some white-like
>>> lines
>>> between each two color patches, or you can call them gaps.
>>> This is not like the contourf doc string says:  "it does not draw the
>>> polygon edges.", actually, it does.
>>> http://old.nabble.com/file/p27982822/contourf1.png contourf1.png 
>>> The figure above is what I get by contourf, but this is not exactlly what
>>> I
>>> want.
>>>
>>> The filled contour map I want should be like this one:
>>> http://old.nabble.com/file/p27982822/contourf2.png contourf2.png 
>>>
>>> Any advice?
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>   
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On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Angus McMorland <am...@gm...> wrote:
> On 24 March 2010 17:33, Nils Wagner <nw...@ia...> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> how can I change the output format of yticks from 1000000
>> to 1.e6 ?
>
> I'm not sure if there's an easier way still, but this works:
>
> from matplotlib.ticker import Formatter
> class SciFormatter(Formatter):
>    def __call__(self, x, pos=None):
>        return "%0.2e" % x
>
> ax = plt.gca()
> ax.yaxis.set_major_formatter(SciFormatter())
> plt.draw()

There's an easier way to format based on a string:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

#Also available in matplotlib.ticker namespace
sci_formatter = plt.FormatStrFormatter('%0.2e')
plt.gca().yaxis.set_major_formatter(sci_formatter)
plt.draw()


You can also make the default formatter (ScalarFormatter) display
scientific notation for smaller numbers (the default is anything with
an abs() >= 1e7). This displays in a slightly different way, with the
base power off to the side of the axis:

form = plt.gca().yaxis.get_major_formatter()

 # so anything with abs() >= 10000 will display in scientific notation
form.set_powerlimits((-4, 4))

plt.draw()


Ryan

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Hi there,

While creating bar plots I found that bars with height 0 are not being
displayed. Their space is distributed evenly between the other
columns.

Sample script:
/--------------------------------------
from pylab import *
import sys
figure(8)
if(sys.argv[1].lower() == 'y'):
    bar([0, 1, 0, 0, 0], [0, 1, 0, 0, 0])
else:
    bar([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], [1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
show()
\--------------------------------------

Try it with argument 'y' and without.

So far I didn't find a solution. '0' is not an easy thing to google
:-) Anyone got an idea?

Cheers, B.

At what point is a line Collection useful?  

On 24 March 2010 17:33, Nils Wagner <nw...@ia...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> how can I change the output format of yticks from 1000000
> to 1.e6 ?

I'm not sure if there's an easier way still, but this works:

from matplotlib.ticker import Formatter
class SciFormatter(Formatter):
    def __call__(self, x, pos=None):
        return "%0.2e" % x

ax = plt.gca()
ax.yaxis.set_major_formatter(SciFormatter())
plt.draw()

Angus.
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On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:
> Rich Krauter wrote:
>>>
>>> Rich Krauter wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I am a relatively new user of matplotlib; thank you to the matplotlib
>>>> team for this excellent package.
>>>> I have a question about serializing matplotlib figures.  I have searched
>>>> for serialization options for matplotlib figures but have not found much
>>>> information.  I am interested to hear about serialization use cases and the
>>>> approaches others use in these cases.
>>>>
>>>> Here is the reason I am asking:
>>>>
>>>> My use case for serialization is that I want to build a CouchDB database
>>>> of matplotlib figures.  The database could be accessed from a web
>>>> application (in my case I want to build a django app to create, edit and
>>>> manage figures) or desktop gui, or whatever.  For storage of the figures in
>>>> CouchDB, I am working on JSON representations of matplotlib figures.  The
>>>> JSON could be run through simple python functions to regenerate the
>>>> matplotlib figures.  I have very simple working examples, but to more
>>>> completely test out this approach I would attempt to recreate the plots in
>>>> the matplotlib gallery using JSON representations and a small set of
>>>> (hopefully) very simple python functions which would process the JSON
>>>> markup.
>>>>
>>>> Before I get too far, I wanted to see what others have done for similar
>>>> use cases, make sure I am not missing existing approaches, etc.  I am
>>>> getting ahead of myself now, but if there is broader interest in this
>>>> approach, and no other better solutions exist, I would set up a project on
>>>> Google Code or some other site to work on this.
>>>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> What is the advantage of JSON (is this specific case) over Python source
>>> code?  matplotlib is designed around it and it's more flexible.  Unless
>>> you're planning on automatically manipulating the JSON, I don't see why you
>>> wouldn't just use Python source.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Mike,
>>
>> I don't know that there is much of a benefit to JSON outside of my use
>> case or similar use cases.  I want to manipulate the JSON
>> representation of a figure within a javascript-based web interface to
>> provide dynamic plotting through a web page.  I also want to be able
>> to store and query JSON representations using CouchDB.
>>
>> I am probably not exactly clear on what you mean by "using python
>> source" to represent a figure.  Is there a standard agreed upon way to
>> do this?
>
> In general, most matplotlib users write Python scripts to generate their
> plots.  These scripts usually read in data from an external file in any
> number of formats (the format tends to be domain-specific, but matplotlib
> provides support for a number of CSV formats, Numpy itself supports a number
> of ways of reading arrays etc.)  matplotlib tends to be agnostic about data
> (as long as you can convert it to a Numpy array somehow, it's happy), but
> has a clearly defined API for plot types and styles.
>>
>>  I do have python source code representations of figures.
>> i.e. I have dict representations of matplotlib figures.  The dicts
>> have a "required" internal structure.  I feed the dict to a function
>> which regenerates the figure graphic from that structure.  If I want
>> to update the plot, I just change the contents of the dict data
>> structure representing the plot, not the source code that is used to
>> generate the figure. If I instead had a JSON object representation of
>> a figure, I would convert it to a python dict and use the same
>> function as before to produce the figure.
>>
>
> I guess I have trouble seeing why a dictionary representation which is then
> interpreted to convert it to function calls is better than just making the
> function calls directly.  That's the "interface" to matplotlib that is known
> and tested.
>

Here are my reasons why a structured representation (dict, JSON, XML,
...)  is useful:

- I want to access the same plot representation through both python
and through javascript.  I need to access it in python to run MPL and
create plot images, and I want to use javascript to build the user
interface.

- I want to separate the plot content from the plot generation.   I
can serialize a data structure containing plot contents more easily
than I can record the commands a user might call to generate a plot.
The content of the plot is not python specific, only the generation of
the MPL plot is.  I need to be able to serialize the content to
support later modifications.



> The only use case I can imagine where a dictionary might be preferable would
> be if an external tool needs to read in the dictionary, modify it and spit
> it back out.  Reading arbitrary Python code is of course extremely hairy,
> whereas the JSON dictionary could be defined to be a more limited and
> manageable subset.  Another possible advantage may be security related -- if
> you need to run untrusted plot code, you certainly don't want to be running
> untrusted Python code.
>>
>> I haven't found much discussion about serialization of matplotlib
>> figures, but I probably have not searched well enough, or maybe it is
>> not a high interest topic.  The discussion I have found seems to
>> suggest using the script you used to create the figure as the
>> serialization of that figure. To modify the figure, you modify the
>> script an rerun it.
>
> Yes -- that's the general consensus (at least among the core developers)
> when the discussion comes up.  There have been discussions and experiments
> using enthought.Traits that might make plots serializable and malleable, but
> it's a significant refactoring of matplotlib to take such an approach, for a
> fairly minor gain.  It's also extremely difficult to invent a serialization
> that would survive version upgrades to matplotlib.  One advantage of the
> script approach is that when APIs change in a backward-incompatible way, it
> is generally easier for end users to update their plots.  If plots were in a
> less human readable/writable format the changes required may be less
> obvious.
>>

I can see why an MPL-internal serialization capability would be low on
the priority list.  It's hard to do and no one is really asking for
it.  I don't think you were implying this, but just to be clear I am
not requesting a change to MPL or complaining about its functionality.
 Hope I didn't give the impression that I was.

Agreed that API changes could be difficult to deal with.

>>  What I would like to have (and what I have somee
>> very preliminary examples for) are versioned data structures that can
>> be converted to matplotlib figures without modifying any python source
>> code (other than the structured representation of the figure itself.)
>>  However, I don't know how much the matplotlib API changes, and an
>> approach like this may be very sensitive to those changes.
>>
>
> I don't understand the motivation to avoid modifying Python source code.  If
> you want to have common functionality that needs to change en masse, you can
> use Python functions in a library.  You could write Python scripts defining
> a plot that are nothing more than data and a single function call to said
> library.

I am not opposed to modifying python source code.  What I meant is
that I tried to separate the content of the figure from its
generation.  There is nothing python-specific about the content of a
figure.  To change a plot I change its content (as represented by a
python dict, XML, JSON, etc.), not the python code used to generate
the figure from the content.  I can add support for other MPL features
by changing the JSON, XML, python dict representation; I shouldn't
have to add server side python code to support additional MPL
features.

> Are you indexing the JSON at a fine-grained level in the couchdb, or are
> they ultimately just blobs anyway?  In which case a Python blob or a JSON
> blob should make no difference.
>

Good point, they will probably mostly be blobs, with some associated
metadata to query against.

> I'm not trying to dissuade you from creating a JSON frontend if there's a
> strong advantage.  But keeping that frontend in sync with the progress of
> matplotlib may be difficult, depending on how much coverage you want to
> provide.
>
> Mike

Understood, and thanks for the input.

Rich

Hello, I have a problem when compiling matplotlib. 

python setup.py build stop here :

copying lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlibrc -> build/lib.linux-
x86_64-2.4/matplotlib/mpl-data
copying lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlib.conf -> build/lib.linux-
x86_64-2.4/matplotlib/mpl-data
running build_ext
error: don't know how to compile C/C++ code on platform 'posix' with 'gcc' 
compiler

Any idea? 

By the way, do you know how to install matplotlib in a selected location ? 
Thank you very much.

David

David Kremer wrote:
>> Does anybody know where I could get a
>> copy of superpack?

I don't know of the status of that, but this is what I recommend:

install the python2.6 from python.org
install the numpy1.3 binary from scipy.org
install the matplotlib binary (*.dmg) from matplotlib.org

(optional)
install the scipy binary from scipy.org

and there you go -- I suppose it would be nice to have it all in one 
install, but that's not too hard.

(if you really want all in one -- check out Python(x,y) or EPD)


-Chris


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Le Wednesday 24 March 2010 22:02:15, Pau a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> I am using macosx 10.6 aka snow leopard (not willingly btw) and I need
> to install matplotlib. I know of superpack but the site seems to have
> been "dead" for some weeks now. Does anybody know where I could get a
> copy of superpack?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Pau

You could find interesting the sage package, which is embedding matplotlib and 
other mathematical stuff. 

take a look : http://www.sagemath.org/

Hi all,

how can I change the output format of yticks from 1000000 
to 1.e6 ?

Nils

Hello,

I am using macosx 10.6 aka snow leopard (not willingly btw) and I need
to install matplotlib. I know of superpack but the site seems to have
been "dead" for some weeks now. Does anybody know where I could get a
copy of superpack?

thanks,

Pau

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Chris Barker <Chr...@no...> wrote:
> Michael Droettboom wrote:
>> What is the advantage of JSON (is this specific case) over Python source
>> code?  matplotlib is designed around it and it's more flexible.  Unless
>> you're planning on automatically manipulating the JSON, I don't see why
>> you wouldn't just use Python source.
>
> Indeed. There have been a few threads about this topic, and I think the
> consensus is that the way to auto-generate figures is with python.
>
> I don't think that there is any technical reason that one couldn't
> create a serialized version of an MPL figure in XML, or JSON, (or, for
> that matter, a python data structure), but it would be a fair bit of
> effort to write the code, and I don't think you'd get any real advantage
> over just using scripts -- you need a python script to create a figure
> in the first place, why not serialize that?

Chris,

To answer your question, because I can't think of a way to build a
web-based user interface to let users make incremental changes to the
plot produced by that script. Or some other plot that was generated
using a different script.

ISTM if I have a defined serialization structure (whether it be in
XML, JSON, or a python data structure) I can more easily build a
web-based user interface for manipulating that structure.  Below is an
example figure structured as a python dict and a rendering function.
Not sure if this clarifies what I am trying to do ...


import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('Agg')
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt


plot = {
    'metadata': {
                'description': 'This is a sample plot representation',
                'matplotlib_version': '0.99.0',
                'author': 'RMK',
                'last_updated': [2010, 3, 24, 13, 25, 0],
                'type': 'lineplot'
                },

    'figure':

        {'methods':
                    [
                      ['set_size_inches', [10,4], {} ]
                    ]
        },

    'axes':

        {
        121:
            {'datasets':[
                {
                 'data': [ [1,2,3], [4,5,6] ],
                 'options': {'linewidth':4, 'label': 'Source 1'},
                },

                {

                 'data': [ [1,2,3], [12,13,14] ],
                 'options': {'linewidth':4, 'label': 'Source 2',
                             'marker':'*', 'visible': True},

                }
                ],

            'methods': [
                         ['set_xlabel', ["Testing ..."], {} ],
                         ['legend',  [], {} ]
                       ]
        },

        122:
            { 'datasets': [
                {
                 'data': [ [1,2,3], [7,8,9] ],
                 'options':{'linewidth':4, 'label': 'Source 3'},

                }

            ],
            'methods': [
                        ['set_xlabel', ["Label ..."], {} ],
                        ['legend', [], {} ]
                       ]

        }
    }
}

def generate(plot,figname):

    fig = plt.figure()

    methods = plot['figure']['methods']
    for method, args, kwds in methods:
        getattr(fig, method)(*args, **kwds)

    for axes in plot['axes']:
        ax = plt.subplot(axes)

        datasets = plot['axes'][axes]['datasets']

        for dataset in datasets:
            plt.plot(*(dataset['data']), **(dataset['options']))

        for method, args, kwds in plot['axes'][axes]['methods']:
            getattr(ax, method)(*args, **kwds)

    plt.savefig(figname)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    generate(plot, 'junk.png')


Rich

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:55 AM,  <dav...@gm...> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I would like to know, please, how you can add graphics on a same plot.
>
> eg :
>
> superpose sine and cosine graphs on the same plot.

If you're just starting out with matplotlib, spending some time in our
gallery is a great place to learn:

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/gallery.html

For your particular need, I'd look at:

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/legend_demo2.html

Ryan

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dav...@gm... wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I would like to know, please, how you can add graphics on a same plot.
>
> eg :
>
> superpose sine and cosine graphs on the same plot.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
>
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On 3/24/2010 12:58 PM, dav...@gm... wrote:
> I would like to know, please, how you can add graphics on a same plot.
>
> eg :
>
> superpose sine and cosine graphs on the same plot.
>    


Just use `plot` again.
Or do many lines in one go:
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.plot

Here are some possibilities:
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/gallery.html

hth,
Alan Isaac