> I want to control gnuplot with a python program. Hi Anton, here is a little snippet using os.popen: import os gp = os.popen('gnuplot -persist', 'w') print >> gp, "set yrange [-300:300]" for n in range(300): print >> gp, "plot %i*cos(x)+%i*log(x+10)" % (n,150-n) Regards, mawe