Message: 4 Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:27:59 +0200 From: bernardo martins rocha <bernardo.rocha@meduni-graz.at> Subject: [SciPy-user] pyqwt or matplotlib To: scipy-user@scipy.org Message-ID: <48B3F6CF.2010600@meduni-graz.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Hi everybody,
I'm starting to write a program with PyQt to visualize some traces from a system of ODEs. I would like to plot one graphic for each variable inside this PyQt application...and I'm wondering which one is the best for it: matplotlib or pyqwt? I will read some files using PyTables and then I'll plot everything and some of these files are very big, so I need something fast and good.
I've been using matplotlib for some small programs and it's very nice, powerful and beautiful. I've already embedded some matplotlib plots inside a PyQt application. But I have the impression that pyqwt is faster than matplotlib. Is it true? Is there another library for plotting that would do the job?
Thanks! Bernardo M. Rocha
Hi, That is not an impression: PyQwt is much faster than matplotlib and is often used precisely to analyse huge data sets (here is an example: http://pyqwt.sourceforge.net/images/meq.pdf -- simple plotting, but very effective). On the other hand, as you may know, matplotlib has *a lot* more features, but if you don't need them... Pierre