[Matrix-SIG] Python interface for PPGPLOT

[Mike Miller]

>>>>> "Scott" == Scott M Ransom <ransom@cfa.harvard.edu> writes:

    >> Greg Hammett wrote:

    >> ... but Livermore's Numerical Python distribution
    >> http://xfiles.llnl.gov/python.htm already includes
    >> interfaces to at least 2 different plotting packages (gist
    >> and an oop plotting package) that allow one to do this.
    >> Is there some advantage to PPGPLOT over those packages ...

    > Good question.  There are a few reasons why I decided to
    > write my own instead of using the LLNL packages:

    > Personally, I think that the best bet for a 
    > publication-quality plotting library for Python lies in the
    > already very good GNU Plotutils
    > (http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/plotutils.html).

I agree.  While libplot is not nearly as fast as the llnl
graphics, I find it to be much easier to use to make high quality
graphics.  It is also capable of a larger number of output
formats.  The 2.2 release will include plotting routines that
will do things similar to what graph does.  There's a SWIGed
version of libplot version 2.1.5 at
<http://www.npl.uiuc.edu/~miller/python>.

Mike

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Michael A. Miller                                miller5@uiuc.edu
  Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign