ANN: matplotlib-0.2 matlab style plotting for python

[John Hunter]

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.