matplotlib-0.90.1 has just been released. matplotlib is a graphing package for python which can be used interactively from the python shell ala Mathematica or Matlab, embedded in a GUI application, or used in batch mode to generate graphical hardcopy, eg in a web application server. Many raster and vector outputs are supported (PNG, SVG, PDF, PS, and more). You can get the source release, eggs and binary builds for OS X and windows at the download link below
homepage: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/ what's new: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/whats_new.html screenshots: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html tutorial: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/tutorial.html mailing list: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=matplotlib-users downloads: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80706&package_id=82474 The CHANGELOG entries for the 0.90.1 release are below -- see the what's new link above for an overview Thanks, John Hunter ============================================================== 2007-06-02 Released 0.90.1 at revision 3352 2007-06-02 Display only meaningful labels when calling legend() without args. - NN 2007-06-02 Have errorbar follow the color cycle even if line is not plotted. Suppress plotting of errorbar caps for capsize=0. - NN 2007-06-02 Set markers to same alpha value as line. - NN 2007-06-02 Fix mathtext position in svg backend. - NN 2007-06-01 Deprecate Numeric and numarray for use as numerix. Props to Travis -- job well done. - ADS 2007-05-18 Added LaTeX unicode support. Enable with the 'text.latex.unicode' rcParam. This requires the ucs and inputenc LaTeX packages. - ADS 2007-04-23 Fixed some problems with polar -- added general polygon clipping to clip the lines a nd grids to the polar axes. Added support for set_rmax to easily change the maximum radial grid. Added support for polar legend - JDH 2007-04-16 Added Figure.autofmt_xdate to handle adjusting the bottom and rotating the tick labels for date plots when the ticks often overlap - JDH 2007-04-09 Beginnings of usetex support for pdf backend. -JKS 2007-04-07 Fixed legend/LineCollection bug. Added label support to collections. - EF 2007-04-06 Removed deprecated support for a float value as a gray- scale; now it must be a string, like '0.5'. Added alpha kwarg to ColorConverter.to_rgba_list. - EF 2007-04-06 Fixed rotation of ellipses in pdf backend (sf bug #1690559) -JKS 2007-04-04 More matshow tweaks; documentation updates; new method set_bounds() for formatters and locators. - EF 2007-04-02 Fixed problem with imshow and matshow of integer arrays; fixed problems with changes to color autoscaling. - EF 2007-04-01 Made image color autoscaling work correctly with a tracking colorbar; norm.autoscale now scales unconditionally, while norm.autoscale_None changes only None-valued vmin, vmax. - EF 2007-03-31 Added a qt-based subplot-adjustment dialog - DSD 2007-03-30 Fixed a bug in backend_qt4, reported on mpl-dev - DSD 2007-03-26 Removed colorbar_classic from figure.py; fixed bug in Figure.clf() in which _axobservers was not getting cleared. Modernization and cleanups. - EF 2007-03-26 Refactored some of the units support -- units now live in the respective x and y Axis instances. See also API_CHANGES for some alterations to the conversion interface. JDH 2007-03-25 Fix masked array handling in quiver.py for numpy. (Numeric and numarray support for masked arrays is broken in other ways when using quiver. I didn't pursue that.) - ADS 2007-03-23 Made font_manager.py close opened files. - JKS 2007-03-22 Made imshow default extent match matshow - EF 2007-03-22 Some more niceties for xcorr -- a maxlags option, normed now works for xcorr as well as axorr, usevlines is supported, and a zero correlation hline is added. See examples/xcorr_demo.py. Thanks Sameer for the patch. - JDH 2007-03-21 Axes.vlines and Axes.hlines now create and returns a LineCollection, not a list of lines. This is much faster. The kwarg signature has changed, so consult the docs. Modified Axes.errorbar which uses vlines and hlines. See API_CHANGES; the return signature for these three functions is now different 2007-03-20 Refactored units support and added new examples - JDH 2007-03-19 Added Mike's units patch - JDH 2007-03-18 Matshow as an Axes method; test version matshow1() in pylab; added 'integer' Boolean kwarg to MaxNLocator initializer to force ticks at integer locations. - EF 2007-03-17 Preliminary support for clipping to paths agg - JDH 2007-03-17 Text.set_text() accepts anything convertible with '%s' - EF 2007-03-14 Add masked-array support to hist. - EF 2007-03-03 Change barh to take a kwargs dict and pass it to bar. Fixes sf bug #1669506. 2007-03-02 Add rc parameter pdf.inheritcolor, which disables all color-setting operations in the pdf backend. The idea is that you include the resulting file in another program and set the colors (both stroke and fill color) there, so you can use the same pdf file for e.g. a paper and a presentation and have them in the surrounding color. You will probably not want to draw figure and axis frames in that case, since they would be filled in the same color. - JKS 2007-02-26 Prevent building _wxagg.so with broken Mac OS X wxPython. - ADS 2007-02-23 Require setuptools for Python 2.3 - ADS 2007-02-22 WXAgg accelerator updates - KM WXAgg's C++ accelerator has been fixed to use the correct wxBitmap constructor. The backend has been updated to use new wxPython functionality to provide fast blit() animation without the C++ accelerator. This requires wxPython 2.8 or later. Previous versions of wxPython can use the C++ acclerator or the old pure Python routines. setup.py no longer builds the C++ accelerator when wxPython >= 2.8 is present. The blit() method is now faster regardless of which agg/ wxPython conversion routines are used. 2007-02-21 Applied the PDF backend patch by Nicolas Grilly. This impacts several files and directories in matplotlib: - Created the directory lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ pdfcorefonts, holding AFM files for the 14 PDF core fonts. These fonts are embedded in every PDF viewing application. - setup.py: Added the directory pdfcorefonts to package_data. - lib/matplotlib/__init__.py: Added the default parameter 'pdf.use14corefonts'. When True, the PDF backend uses only the 14 PDF core fonts. - lib/matplotlib/afm.py: Added some keywords found in recent AFM files. Added a little workaround to handle Euro symbol. - lib/matplotlib/fontmanager.py: Added support for the 14 PDF core fonts. These fonts have a dedicated cache (file pdfcorefont.cache), not the same as for other AFM files (file .afmfont.cache). Also cleaned comments to conform to CODING_GUIDE. - lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py: Added support for 14 PDF core fonts. Fixed some issues with incorrect character widths and encodings (works only for the most common encoding, WinAnsiEncoding, defined by the official PDF Reference). Removed parameter 'dpi' because it causes alignment issues. -JKS (patch by Nicolas Grilly) 2007-02-17 Changed ft2font.get_charmap, and updated all the files where get_charmap is mentioned - ES 2007-02-13 Added barcode demo- JDH 2007-02-13 Added binary colormap to cm - JDH 2007-02-13 Added twiny to pylab - JDH 2007-02-12 Moved data files into lib/matplotlib so that setuptools' develop mode works. Re-organized the mpl-data layout so that this source structure is maintained in the installation. (I.e. the 'fonts' and 'images' sub-directories are maintained in site-packages.) Suggest removing site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data and ~/.matplotlib/ttffont.cache before installing - ADS 2007-02-07 Committed Rob Hetland's patch for qt4: remove references to text()/latin1(), plus some improvements to the toolbar layout - DSD -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
