DESCRIPTION:

disipyl is an object-oriented wrapper around the DISLIN plotting

library. DISLIN is a powerful and flexible multiplatform (Win32, Unix, Linux, etc.) library designed for displaying scientific data. DISLIN's author, Helmut Michels, has made available a DISLIN plotting extension for the Python programming language (see http://www.linmpi.mpg.de/dislin/ for more details).

disipyl provides a set of classes which represent various aspects

of DISLIN plots, as well as providing some easy to use classes for creating commonly used plot formats (e.g. scatter plots, histograms, 3-D surface plots). A major goal in designing the library was to facilitate interactive data exploration and plot creation.

Documentation, a tutorial, and a demo program are included. The library has been tested on Win32, Linux, and FreeBSD, but I anticipate that it should work on any platform which can make use of Python, NumPy, and the DISLIN python extensions.

Feedback, comments, and critique are gladly accepted (email:

paul.magwene@yale.edu).

VERSION:

This is release 0.7 of disipyl.

CHANGES:

New in this release:

• Include a wxPython demo based on an example submitted by Les Schaffer

• Added support for generating PNG and PDF versions of plots as string buffers (useful for serving images to web pages)

• Fixed a bug in Text class

• Fixed bug in FunctionPlot class

• Modified the format of the INFOMODULE option to take both a module name and a class name

• Implemented "mylabels" options for Axis, as submitted by Reggie Duggard

• updated optioninfo documentation

URL:

You can find disipyl at:

http://pantheon.yale.edu/~pmm34/disipyl.html