[CentralOH] Simple XY Graphing

[Eric Floehr]

Oh, and here is the plot that those four lines of code make:

http://i.imgur.com/3uzjl.png

-Eric



On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Eric Floehr <eric at intellovations.com> wrote:

> Mark,
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>>  Eric,
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>> Thanks.  I don't know anything about it, but I wonder if Matplotlib is
>> overkill for what I need.  I don't need the hover-overs (at least not now).
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>> Mark
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> I'm not exactly sure what you mean by overkill... yes matplotlib has a lot
> of capability.  But that doesn't mean it's hard to use or get started with
> for simple xy plots:
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> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> x = range(6)
> plt.plot(x, [xi**2 for xi in x])  # x and y, plots y=x^2 for six points
> plt.savefig('plot.png')  # plt.show() will show instead of save
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> I don't think you can get much simpler that that.
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> -Eric
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