Getting gnuplot output back to python?

[Les Schaffer]

> If I read correctly, the current Gnuplot module uses a one way pipe
> to gnuplot, so it can only do things like settting axis but not
> things like asking what the current axis is.

in this regard, it would be nice to have a real wrapper extension to
the Gnuplot plotting engine, rather than a pipe based system. But i
the looked at the Gnuplot code base a couple years ago and couldnt
make sense of it. Perhaps the code has progressed since then to the
point where a SWIG wrapping of the plotting engine could be developed.

Has anyone followed Gnuplot development enough to know whether this is
in the realm of possibilities? is there a Gnuplot.h that carves out
the external interface?

les 'well, i use mainly Dislin anyway' schaffer