Plotting package?

[Lou Pecora]

In article <lgv3g.1444$xX5.1193 at bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
 "Andrew Koenig" <ark at acm.org> wrote:

> This may be a foolish question, but what's the most straightforward way to 
> plot a bunch of data in Python?
> 
> That is, I want to write a program that does some number crunching, and then 
> I want to change some parameters and watch how the changes affect the 
> results.  I could produce a file to hand to gnuplot, but that's a bit of a 
> pain; so I'm wondering if there is a widely used package to which I can give 
> my x-y pairs and have it produce a graph for me with axes, scaling, etc.

I second all other recommendations on matplotlib.

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