Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

Wed Sep 16 00:50:13 EDT 2009

Ethan Furman wrote:
> John Nagle wrote:
>>>> http://home.gna.org/pychart/doc/introduction.html
>>>> Tried PyChart. Set up for PNG file format. Got the error
>> "Exception: Ghostscript not found." This thing just creates
>> PostScript, then pumps it through GhostScript (anybody remember that?)
>> to get other formats. And does the documentation say that? Only
>> in the FAQ section. Grrr.
>>>> There doesn't seem to be any pure Python chart module at all.
>> Just wrappers.
>>>> John Nagle
>> http://home.gna.org/pychart/doc/module-theme.html
>>>> Looks like it will directly create pdf files, not sure if that will for 
> you.
>> Hope this helps.

 Thanks. More usefully, the program will generate SVG output.
That I can use. There are some bugs; the SVG text sizes are
about 2x too big. But I can fix that.
				John Nagle