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<br>> I would like to make some simple plots using matplotlib (or any python plotting <br>> modules) and I can find lots of examples that generate random data and then <br>> plot those, but I cannot find any that read in data from excel or a text file, <br>> manipulate the data and then plot the data. Does anyone have any examples <br>> for this or webpages I could go to?<br><br>Keep in mind, too, that in terms of matplotlib, for simple plots all you need to<br>feed the plot() function is a list of x points and a list of y points. Sometimes<br>the demos on their web page might seem to obscure this for beginners because<br>of the fancy math functions that make pretty plots, but that's all you need:<br>two lists.<br><br>Getting those two lists of points is what you are really concerned about, as <br>Kent indicated, and so this is not really a matplotlib concern. And as he said,<br>Python has lots of good support for that. <br><br>Che<br><br /><hr />HotmailŪ is up to 70% faster. Now good news travels really fast. <a href='http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=PID23391::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HYGN_faster:082009' target='_new'>Try it now.</a></body>
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