On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 8:22 PM, Julien <julien.delplan...@inria.fr> wrote: > Hello, > > My new year main resolution: stop keeping my side-projects for me.
I ***LOVE IT*** Last year I took as decision, release all the books that I had half finished :) and I ended up creating the booklets to flush my hardisc. Stef > > 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 >
