Announcing Matplotlib 0.2 matplotlib is a pure python plotting library designed to bring publication quality plotting to python with a syntax familiar to matlab users. Although the goal of publication quality is not yet attained, the library does produce high quality 2D plots. All of the plotting commands can be accessed either via a functional interface familiar to matlab users or an object oriented interface familiar to python users. http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net matplotlib requires python2.2, Numeric-22+ and pygtk-1.99.16, and should run anywhere those packages are available. It has been tested under linux and win32. The following matlab compatible plotting commands are provided: axes, axis, bar, close, errorbar, figure, gca, gcf, get, hist, plot, scatter, set, subplot, text, title, xlabel, ylabel What's new in 0.2 Font handling - Major improvements in font and text handling. matplotlib 0.1 drew all text in the same, non-configurable font. In 0.2, font name, size, weight, and angle, color, rotation, and more are easily configurable. See the text tutorial on the website Multiple figures -- Multiple figures supported with the figure command. See the Working with multiple figures and axes in the tutorial Interactive shell -- Interactive use from the python shell if you have pygtk compiled with threads. See Using matplotlib interactively. Saving figures- Ability to save figures in arbitrary resolution PNG or TIFF with a bug fix that caused saved figures to be corrupted by anything blocking the figure window. A GUI widget has been added to the figure toolbar to save figures and a new comand savefig has been added. Navigation - A new and hopefully improved navigation toolbar has been added that doesn't require a wheel mouse, but still works with one. See the Navigation tutorial. More examples and screenshots - New examples and screenshot illustrating the new text functionality, the new plot types, and new commands. See the examples subdirectory in the src distribution. Patches - A Patch class added for drawing patches (rectangles, polygons, circles). This supports three new plotting commands scatter, hist and bar, with more to come. New commands - New plotting commands bar, close, errorbar, figure, hist, text, scatter, savefig, ylabel. Matplotlib on sourceforge - matplotlib homepage moved to sourceforge with a (hopefully) more useful homepage. Documentation - Much better documentation and a tutorial. Refactoring - Substantial rewrite of class library. All text now handled by the AxisText class in text.py. Axis handling refactored into a dedicated class Axis defined in figure.py.