On 2013-11-03, Jim Gibson <jimsgib...@gmail.com> wrote: > In article <okcdnxfaqqxze-jpnz2dnuvz_jgdn...@earthlink.com>, E.D.G. ><edgrs...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > >> My main, complex programs won't be run at Web sites. They will >> instead continue to be available as downloadable exe programs. The CGI (or >> whatever) programming work would involve relatively simple programs. But >> they would need to be able to generate charts that would be displayed on Web >> pages. That sounds like it is probably fairly easy to do using Python. A >> Perl - Gnuplot combination is also supposed to be able to do that. But so >> far I have not seen any good explanations for how to actually get Gnuplot to >> run as a callable CGI program. So other programs such as Python are being >> considered. > > One way to generate plot within a CGI program is this: > > 1. Write a file with gnuplot commands (e.g., 'gnuplot.cmd') that set > the output device to a graphics file of some format (e.g., PNG), > generate a plot, and quit gnuplot.
Or you can use the pygnuplot module which handles much of that for y0ou. http://pygnuplot.sourceforge.net/ -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
