Graphs from python

[Larry Whitley]

Thanks for the pointer.  I'll check it out.

Larry

"Gilles Lenfant" <glenfant at equod.com.nospam> wrote in message
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> 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:
> 90gse2$14uo$1 at news.rchland.ibm.com...
> > 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
> >
> >
>