Matplotlib for Python Developers
Date: 11 July 2011 | Posted by: pool
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http://www.packtpub.com/matplotlib-python-development/book
This book is about Matplotlib, a Python package for 2D plotting that generates production quality graphs. Its variety of output formats, several chart types, and capability to run either interactively (from Python or IPython consoles) and non-interactively (useful, for example, when included into web applications), makes Matplotlib suitable for use in many different situations.
Matplotlib is a big package with several dependencies and having them all installed and running properly is the first step that needs to be taken. We provide some ways to have a system ready to explore Matplotlib. Then we start escribing the basic functions required for plotting lines, exploring any useful or advanced commands for our plots until we come to the core of Matplotlib: the object-oriented interface. This is the root for the next big section of the book—embedding Matplotlib into GUI libraries applications. We cannot limit it only to desktop programs, so we show several methods to include Matplotlib into web sites using low level techniques for two well known web frameworks—Pylons and Django. Last but not the least, we present a number of real world examples of Matplotlib applications. The core concept of the book is to present how to embed Matplotlib into Python applications, developed using the main GUI libraries: GTK+, Qt 4, and wxWidgets.
However, we are by no means limiting ourselves to that. The step-by-step introduction to Matplotlib functions, the advanced details, the example with web frameworks, and several real-life use cases make the book suitable for anyone willing to learn or already working with Matplotlib.
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