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Hello:
I am currently using matplotlib for all the plotting in the software I am writing. I will however need to produce polar plots. As John has mentioned they should be added at one point. So my shameless question is roughly what version could I expect them to be included in? My options are to either wait for it, write it on my own, or write a simple interface (for my code) to GNUPlot or some other tool. I have not done very much poking around in the current matplotlib libraries (other than changing some rather minor details) and have a feeling that this might take me the longest. Interfacing GNUPLot to my code would not take more than a few hours, but I would prefer to stay with matplotlib. 
Thanks for the great work.
Best,
-- 
Peter Groszkowski Gemini Observatory
Tel: +1 808 974-2509 670 N. A'ohoku Place
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>>>>> "LUK" == LUK ShunTim <shu...@po...> writes:
 LUK> If matplotlib honours the HOME environmental variable, could
 LUK> it not be used on windows system as well?
Could you provide the context for your question? What are you trying
to do and what isn't working?
JDH
 

John Hunter wrote:
>>>>>>"marc" == marc schellens <m_s...@ho...> writes:
> 
> 
> Hi Marc,
> 
> marc> Just installed matplotlib and tried an example from the
> 
> marc> Numeric import failed... trying numarray. 
> 
> This is not an error, but it looks like you have numarray installed
> but not Numeric, but you haven't set your numerix preference to
> numarray. This is a parameter in .matplotlibrc. See
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/.matplotlibrc. If indeed you want
> to use numarray, I suggests setting
> 
> numerix : numarray 
> 
> or else install Numeric. This will stop the numeric/numarray
> warnings.
> 
If matplotlib honours the HOME environmental variable, could it not be used on 
windows system as well?
Regards,
ST
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I just installed the latest matplotlib and wanted to run
the first example from the homepage.
But I got:
Python 2.3.3 (#2, Mar 12 2004, 16:09:39)
[GCC 3.2.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.2-3mdk)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import matplotlib.matlab
Numeric import failed... trying numarray.
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
 File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/matlab.py", 
line 126, in ?
 from axes import Axes
 File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py", 
line 244, in ?
 class Axes(Artist):
 File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py", 
line 814, in Axe s
 def imshow(self, X, cmap = Grayscale(256)):
 File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/colors.py", 
line 213, in _ _init__
 Colormap.__init__(self, N, 'gray')
 File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/colors.py", 
line 96, in __ init__
 self._make_red()
 File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/colors.py", 
line 118, in _ make_red
 self.red = 1.0/self.N*arange(self.N, typecode=Float)
TypeError: arange() got an unexpected keyword argument 'typecode'
Any suggestions?
thanks,
marc

Just installed matplotlib and tried an example from the homepage:
Python 2.3.3 (#2, Mar 12 2004, 16:09:39)
[GCC 3.2.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.2-3mdk)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>import matplotlib.matlab
Numeric import failed... trying numarray.
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
 File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/matlab.py", line 
126, in ?
 from axes import Axes
 File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py", line 
244, in ?
 class Axes(Artist):
 File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py", line 
814, in Axe s
 def imshow(self, X, cmap = Grayscale(256)):
 File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/colors.py", line 
213, in _ _init__
 Colormap.__init__(self, N, 'gray')
 File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/colors.py", line 
96, in __ init__
 self._make_red()
 File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/colors.py", line 
118, in _ make_red
 self.red = 1.0/self.N*arange(self.N, typecode=Float)
TypeError: arange() got an unexpected keyword argument 'typecode'
Why is this?
Any suggestions?
thanks,
marc
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