Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

[Giacomo Boffi]

Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl> writes:

>>>>>> Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> (CW) wrote:
>
>>CW> John Nagle wrote:
>>>> That's a wrapper for Antigrain ("http://www.antigrain.com/"),
>>>> which is a C++ library.  I'm trying hard to avoid dependencies on
>>>> binary libraries with limited support.  Builds exist only for
>>>> Python 2.4 and 2.5.
>
>>CW> Huh?
>
>>CW> Matplotlib is a pretty phenomenal charting library, I use it
>>CW> routinely on both windows and linux, I've never had any
>>CW> compilation problems on Linux and never even needed to compile
>>CW> it on Windows.
>
>>CW> Writing if off as "just a wrapper for antigrain" is pretty
>>CW> insulting...
>
> *You* made up the "just" in that quote. The point was that the OP
> wants something that only needs Python.

matplotlib can be used to generate .ps, .pdf and .svg files (all
vectorial formats) without resorting to Antigrain

Antigrain is used only in rasterizing, due to its better capabilities
in the field of antialiasing, when you use matplotlib with an
interactive backend; of course, if you're truly dispising Antigrain
and are happy with a coarser display you can select interactive
backends that DO NOT use Antigrain

that's for the Antigrain wrapper

otoh, if the OP intended a plotting library that does not use binary
modules at all (then his reference to Antigrain was mostly fogging),
then matplotlib is not for him

% find matplotlib-0.99.0/| grep -v agg24 | grep '\.cpp$' | wc -l
23
% find matplotlib-0.99.0/| grep -v agg24 | grep '\.c$' | wc -l
5
% 

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