DISLIN is a high-level and easy to use plotting library for displaying data as curves, bar graphs, pie charts, 3D-colour plots, surfaces, contours and maps. Several output formats are supported such as X11, VGA, PostScript, CGM, HPGL, TIFF, PNG and Prescribe. The library contains about 400 plotting and parameter setting routines and is available for several C, Fortran 77 and Fortran 90 compilers. Some DISLIN distributions contain also plotting extensions for the languages Perl, Python and Java. Version 7.2 of DISLIN is now released with the following new features - PNG support as output format - Calendar axes - 3-D bar graphs / 3-D pie charts - Cursor routines - Quickplots Precomplied DISLIN extensions for Python are available for Windows 95/98/NT, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Digital UNIX. They can be used freely. DISLIN distributions and manuals in PDF, PostScript and HTML format are available from the DISLIN Home Page http://www.linmpi.mpg.de/dislin and via FTP from the server ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/grafik/dislin ------------------- Helmut Michels Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie Phone: +49 5556 979-334 Max-Planck-Str. 2 Fax : +49 5556 979-240 D-37191 Katlenburg-Lindau Mail : michels@linmpi.mpg.de <P><A HREF="http://www.linmpi.mpg.de/dislin/">DISLIN 7.2</A> - high-level data plotting library, featuring support for Java, Python and Perl. (07-Sep-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------