Good. Really nice to see more bridges between Pharo and the external world and playing well with other programming languages, frameworks and documentation systems.
Cheers, Offray On 01/01/18 14:22, Julien wrote: > Hello, > > My new year main resolution: stop keeping my side-projects for me. > > It’s been like 1 year that I created these two projects, one coming > from a refactoring of the other. > Now it is time to take time to announce them. > > I initially come from Python world and during my bachelor & master, I > really liked to use matplotlib to plot data using Python. > > So I wanted to be able to use this Python module from Pharo. I did it > by generating Python 3 code from Pharo and making Python 3 executing > it. So, first I implemented everything in MatplotLibBridge package and > then I split it in two package in order to be able to eventually > create bridges to other Python 3 modules. > > So, Python3Generator [1] is made for generating programatically Python > 3 code from Pharo. Basically, it allows you to easily build a Python 3 > AST, to serialize it in Python 3 source code and eventually to > execute it. For now you can transfer data from Pharo to Python (e.g. > providing arguments to functions that are Pharo’s objects) but you can > not retrieve data stored in Python variable from Pharo (but it should > be possible, just I don’t need to do that for my bridge to > matplotlib). Some examples are provided on the github’s README. > > MatplotLibBridge [2] is made for creating plots using matplotlib [3] > from Pharo. There is a bunch of examples of what you can do on the > README. The two features from matplotlib I like the most are: 1. You > can generate your plot in a lot of file formats (png, pdf, svg, ps, > etc…) 2. It allows to embed LaTeX mathematical formulae everywhere in > the plot (which can be really cool). All the possible plots in > matplotlib are not available in Pharo’s side because I build parts of > the bridge when I need them but it is not hard to do. I someone is > interested in a plot type not available yet, please tell me. > > So, it is announced, if someone want to do something with those, > please do it! > > Happy new year. > > Regards, > > Julien > > [1]: https://github.com/juliendelplanque/Python3Generator > [2]: https://github.com/juliendelplanque/MatplotLibBridge > [3]: https://matplotlib.org > > --- > Julien Delplanque > Doctorant à l’Université de Lille 1 > http://juliendelplanque.be/phd.html > Equipe Rmod, Inria > Bâtiment B 40, avenue Halley 59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq > Numéro de téléphone: +333 59 35 86 40 >
