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> 2. I have a skymap I would like to plot using a particular projection
> - what I've been doing so far is specifying x and y coordinates using
> mgrid and calling contourf(x,y,data,100) to approximate this. But
> what I'd rather do is something like
> imshow(data,extent=[-pi,pi,-pi/2,pi/2]) ... when I call that with a
> projection axis activated, the projection isn't honored - the image
> just appears as a regular square box. Is there any way to get imshow
> to respect the projection?
>
Did you try pcolormesh (or pcolor)? I believe these commands respect
the projection.
 pcolormesh(x, y, data)
-JJ

I've been playing with some of the projections in matplotlib,
recently, and have some questions/noticed some odd behavior:
1. Is there any way to activate a projection mode with the pyplot
interface other than the subplot(111,projection='whatever') method a
la /examples/api/custom_projection_example.py ? Along these same
lines, is the projection feature documented in greater detail
somewhere? About everything I've figured out has come from
custom_projection_example.py ...
2. I have a skymap I would like to plot using a particular projection
- what I've been doing so far is specifying x and y coordinates using
mgrid and calling contourf(x,y,data,100) to approximate this. But
what I'd rather do is something like
imshow(data,extent=[-pi,pi,-pi/2,pi/2]) ... when I call that with a
projection axis activated, the projection isn't honored - the image
just appears as a regular square box. Is there any way to get imshow
to respect the projection?

I'm using 0.98.3 as well... I get a dictionary too. Should have
backed up another step and checked that, I just iterated over the
return and got the keys. Thanks for the help.
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Ryan May <rm...@gm...> wrote:
> Eric Wertman wrote:
>>
>> Hi Everyone.. the docs for boxplot say :
>>
>> Returns a list of the :class:`matplotlib.lines.Line2D` instances added.
>>
>> It seems to be returning a list of strings rather than a list of
>> handles... What's the easiest way for me to get the handles of those
>> objects, with only the names? It's giving me this:
>>
>> medians <type 'str'>
>> fliers <type 'str'>
>> whiskers <type 'str'>
>> boxes <type 'str'>
>> caps <type 'str'>
>
> I get a dictionary with medians, flier, whiskers, boxes, and caps as keys
> and lists of Line2D objects as the values. What version are you running?
> I'm on 0.98.3 here.
>
> Either way the docstring is wrong.
>
> Ryan
>
> --
> Ryan May
> Graduate Research Assistant
> School of Meteorology
> University of Oklahoma
>

Eric Wertman wrote:
> Hi Everyone.. the docs for boxplot say :
> 
> Returns a list of the :class:`matplotlib.lines.Line2D` instances added.
> 
> It seems to be returning a list of strings rather than a list of
> handles... What's the easiest way for me to get the handles of those
> objects, with only the names? It's giving me this:
> 
> medians <type 'str'>
> fliers <type 'str'>
> whiskers <type 'str'>
> boxes <type 'str'>
> caps <type 'str'>
I get a dictionary with medians, flier, whiskers, boxes, and caps as 
keys and lists of Line2D objects as the values. What version are you 
running? I'm on 0.98.3 here.
Either way the docstring is wrong.
Ryan
-- 
Ryan May
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma

Hi Everyone.. the docs for boxplot say :
Returns a list of the :class:`matplotlib.lines.Line2D` instances added.
It seems to be returning a list of strings rather than a list of
handles... What's the easiest way for me to get the handles of those
objects, with only the names? It's giving me this:
medians <type 'str'>
fliers <type 'str'>
whiskers <type 'str'>
boxes <type 'str'>
caps <type 'str'>
Thanks!
Eric

Thanks,
Worked perfectly.
Mathieu Leplatre-2 wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:14 AM, stuartornum <st...@mu...>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to be able to plot dates along the X axis' with values up
>> the
>> Y. However Im having problems with the correct format in order to pass to
>> plot_date().
>>
>> This is what I have so far: (example)
>>
>> ####################################
>> List = [ [datetime.datetime(2008, 7, 12, 5, 12)], ['46.8'] ]
>>
>> plot_date(List[0], List[1])
>> #####################################
>> Returns error:
>>
>> c = numeric.array(data, dtype=tc, copy=True, order=order)
>> ValueError: setting an array element with a sequence.
>> #####################################
>>
>> I have looked at the pylab example for plot_date, however it uses a
>> drange()
>> to figure out the dates and doesn't show me how to do it one by one.
>>
> 
> Hi
> 
> Have a look at pylab.date2num()
> 
> Mathieu.
> 
> 
> 
>> Thank you for your time.
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