Hi Dotan, On Jan 11, 10:02 am, "Dotan Cohen" <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/1/5 Sandro Tosi <matrixh...@gmail.com>: > > Your suggestions are really appreciated :) And wish me good luck! > > I wish you good luck!
Thanks you :) > I would suggest at least a chapter on _acquiring_ the data that is to > be plotted using Python to scrape different sources _not_designed_ to > be scraped. Online webpages come to mind. An example on retrieving, > for instance, the prices of varying currencies, parsing the HTML > pages, extracting the data, and then plotting it would be a great > example for a real worlds usage that show matplotlib as a tool in a > toolchain, not a means to an end. Well, a whole chapter to this is a little too much, but such examples will be presented in the book: we're not going to teach how to program in Python, but how to use matplotlib, so the data retriving is a little out-of-scope (or at least border-line), so the code will be in the examples provided along with the book, but not deeply explained in the book text. Thanks, Sandro -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
