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I wanted to use this code to set the label font in my legends:
from pylab.font_manager import fontManager, FontProperties
font = FontProperties(size='x-small')
legend(legends,prop=font)
but I'm getting "ImportError: No module named font_manager".
Can someone help me set legend size? Thanks.
Stephen

You might consider using the object oriented part of matplotlib instead
of the matlab style of doing things. I tend to make my plots a plot()
method of whatever kind of analysis class I've created:
from pylab import figure
class Analysis(object):
 def init(self):
 self.x = range(10)
 self.y = range(10)
 def plot(self):
 self.f = figure() # create a figure
 self.a = self.f.add_subplot(111) # create axes
 self.a.set_xlabel('time (s)')
 self.a.set_ylabel('value')
 self.a.plot(self.x, self.y)
a = Analysis()
a.plot()
Cheers,
Martin
Hans Strotzer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm using matplotlib for producing a bar-chart displaying my
> electricity consumption. One thing that really annoys me is
> that generally python code is quite visually appealing, the
> same goes for the code in the matplotlib-examples.
> The code I have produced here is frankly quite ugly
> when it comes to setting all the properties I want.
> Is there a smarter way of doing this, perhaps using dictionaries etc?
> (I have attached the genereated png-file)
> 
> cheers
> 
> //Fredrik
> --
> 
> from parser_el import *
> from pylab import *
> 
> 
> # Override some matplotlibrc defaults
> # to get some nicer plots
> rc('figure', figsize=(18,8))
> rc('figure.subplot', bottom=0.14)
> rc('figure.subplot', left=0.04)
> rc('figure.subplot', right=0.98)
> 
> p = parser_el()
> N = len(p.dates)
> ind = arange(N)
> p1 = bar(ind, p.kwh_avg, color='b', align='center')
> 
> # change color of important bars...
> for i in p.info:
> if type(i)==datetime:
> index = p.dates.index(i)
> if index:
> p1[index].set_facecolor('r')
> 
> # Set axis, grid properties & use dates as xticks
> title('kWh/Dygn')
> ylabel('kWh')
> axis([-1,N,0,110])
> locs, labels = xticks(ind, p.dates_string)
> setp(labels, 'rotation', '270', 'ha', 'center', fontsize=10,
> family='monospace')
> xgridlines = getp(gca(), 'xgridlines')
> ygridlines = getp(gca(), 'ygridlines')
> setp(ygridlines, 'linestyle', '-')
> setp(xgridlines, 'linestyle', 'None')
> ax = subplot(111)
> ax.yaxis.set_major_locator(MultipleLocator(10)) # Set y-gridlines 
> multiples of 10
> grid(True)
> 
> text(0,85, p.info_string, bbox=dict(facecolor='darkturquoise', alpha=0.9))
> 
> # Store graph as image
> savefig('el', dpi=80, orientation='landscape', format='png')
> 
> show()
> 
> =
> 
> 
> 
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hi,
I tried to plot in realtime:
from pylab import *
import time
ion()
x=arange(0,2*pi,.01)
line,=plot(x,sin(x))
for i in arange(1,20):
 line.set_ydata(sin(x+i/10.0))
 draw()
but nothing happens when the script runs. I just see the last plot after the script has finished. Only a grey empty window during processing.
I tried to start it in ipython (stated with --pylab) as well as with python and pythonw on OS X Tiger.
I use Pyhton 2.4
matplotlib-0.87.7
wxPython 2.8.0
any hints for me?
thanks Jan 
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