On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 00:55:17 -0700, hemanth wrote: > Why not matplotlib? Of late, it has seemed to have picked up a lot of > attention. I would prefer that the different plotting packages developers > join hands and implement missing features into a single plotting package > and make this a part of Python standard library. In contrast to the > various web frameworks we now have in Python, it is preferable to have > atleast one plotting package as a standard Python package.
I made a reply on this subject to the SciPy mailing list: http://www.scipy.org/mailinglists/mailman?fn=scipy-user/2005-April/004312.html Basically my main issue was the baroque object structure that matplotlib used (it may have got better then), and its speed (which has). The difficulty of writing a plotting package is the user interface, and so I don't think I'm wasting much effort by having my own plotting routines. I've done 90% of what's needed there. Basically, I'll be happy when contouring and images are added. The advantage of Veusz is the nice object-based system of building up a plot. I have a version of veusz which used matplotlib as a backend, but I abandoned that several months ago. Jeremy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
