Graphs from python

[Gilles Lenfant]

Hi,

You can use reportlab package to draw your graphs in a PDF file. It's use is
identical whatever OS you use (I did not test BeOS or Macintosh but it's
supposed to work too).
reportlab provides a low level API to the PDF document but making classes
for various charts should not be that difficult.
Get reportlab (free) from http://reportlab.com

"Larry Whitley" <ldw at us.ibm.com> a écrit dans le message news:
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> The simulation models I write and run generate a lot of data and to make
> sense of it all I put the data into a set of graphs.  The graphs are the
> typical spread sheet fare, bar graphs, X/Y graphs, scatter plots, etc.
> Today, I read the data into spreadsheets from the spreadsheet and create
my
> graphs by hand and I'd like to automate the process.
>
> I'm looking at using win32com (by Mark Hammond) to drive excel or
> piddle+graphite to generage graphs directly from python.  While I'm sure
it
> will get the job done, the excel object model is a bit overwhelming.
Piddle
> by itself isn't at the right level.  Graphite appears get to the right
level
> but the pre-alpha rating makes me think that it's a bit early to jump in.
>
> Are there other approachs I should consider?  Whatever I end up with, I'd
> like it to work from either Unix or Windows.  If I can't have both, I can
> make do with just windows.  Of the two approaches above, is one
> significantly better than the other (by whatever measure you want to
> choose)?
>
> Thanks,
> Larry
>
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