matplotlib is a 2D graphics package that produces plots from python scripts, the python shell, or embeds them in your favorite python GUI -- wx, gtk, tk, fltk currently supported with qt in the works. Unlike many python plotting alternatives is written in python, so it is easy to extend. matplotlib is used in the finance industry, web application servers, and many scientific and enginneering disciplines. With a large community of users and developers, matplotlib is approaching the goal of having a full featured, high quality, 2D plotting library for python.
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net What's new in matplotlib 0.71 numerix refactor The organization of the numerix module was refactored to be mindful of namespaces. See http://matplotlib.sf.net/API_CHANGES. pylab no longer overrides the built-ins min, max, and sum, and provides amin, amax and asum as the numerix/mlab versions of these. pylab defines __all__ to prevent surprises when doing from pylab import *. To see the complete list of symbols provided >>> import matplotlib.pylab >>> matplotlib.pylab.__all__ contour zigzag bug fixed Thanks Nadia for the blood, sweat and tears, and Dominique for the report. contour colormaps Contour now uses the current colormap if colors is not provided, and works with colorbars. See examples/contour_demo2.py colorbar enhancements Horizontal colorbars supported with keyword arg orientation='horizontal' and colorbars can be placed in an arbitrary axes with keyword arg cax. accents in mathtext Added accents to mathtext: \hat, reve, \grave, ar, cute, ilde, ec, \dot, \ddot. All of them have the same syntax, eg to make an overbar you do ar{o} or to make an o umlaut you do \ddot{o}. The shortcuts are also provided, eg: "o 'e \`e \~n \.x \^y . See examples/accent_demo.py fixed super/subscript parsing in mathtext Widowed superscripts now work, eg r'$^12 m{CO}$' little bugs and enhancements Plugged some memory leaks in wx and image module, fixed x,y args in contour, added latex symbol kappa, fixed a yticklabel problem under change in clim, fixed colorbar number of color bug, fixed set_clip_on bug, reverted pythoninspect in tkagg, fixed event handling bugs, fixed matlab-compatible load function, exposed vbox attr in FigureManagerGTK. Downloads at http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net JDH -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
