Can Roundup do this...

[Paddy McCarthy]

William Trenker <wtrenker at hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.120.1066241773.2192.python-list at python.org>...
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 08:21:26 +0100
> Donald 'Paddy' McCarthy <paddy3118 at netscape.netNOTthisBIT> wrote regarding Can Roundup do this...:
> 
> > After looking at a lot of tools, my python bias kicked in - almost al 
> > the tools I looked at did not have graphing functionality.
> 
> Exporting to Excel via cvs will probably give you all the graphs you need.  If you wanted to generate graphs directly in Python, you might want to try Dislin.
> 
> >From the Dislin home page: "DISLIN is a high-level plotting library for displaying data as curves, polar plots, bar graphs, pie charts, 3D-color plots, surfaces, contours and maps."
> (http://www.linmpi.mpg.de/dislin/)
> 
> You should be aware that Dislin is _almost_ free.  There are some combinations of operating system and compilers (eg: some Fortrans and C commercial compilers) which require purchasing a license.  But for Python, the home page explains that, "The DISLIN plotting extensions for Java, Python and Perl and the DISLIN interpreter DISGCL can be used freely on all operating systems."
> 
> Dislin may be overkill for your application, but I thought I'd pass on the info just in case you weren't aware of it.
> 
> Regards,
> Bill
> (not associated with Dislin)


Thanks Bill for your pointer to Dislin. Your right, I do think its a
bit too much for my application. I think the ploticus package shows
promise:
  http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/

- work goes on...