Rrhank you Thomas. On Oct 27, 2017 04:23, "Thomas Jollans" <t...@tjol.eu> wrote:
> On 2017-10-27 07:18, Andrew Z wrote: > > Hello, > > i'd like to create a graph/plot based a DB table's data, but not sure > > where to start. I > > > > also would like to have the following functionality: > > a. i'd like to have it in the separate window ( xwindow to be precise). > > b. and i'd like to have the graph updating with every record added to > the > > table. > > > > The workflow: > > a. main code is running and occasionally adding records to the table > > b. graph gets updated "automagically" and is shown in a separate from > the > > main terminal window. > > > > Main program does not have GUI, nor is Web based, just runs in the > terminal > > on Xwindows. > > > > i don't' really care about cross-platform compability and only want to > run > > that on linux xwindows. > > > > Thank you for your advise. > > > > Matplotlib <https://matplotlib.org/> is the standard Python plotting > library, and it has GUI backends (Tk, Qt, Gtk, ...) that should be > perfectly suitable for your purposes. > > The API maybe takes some getting used to, but there are plenty of > examples to be found around the web, and the main documentation is quite > good. > > If you need the plots to update quickly (it doesn't sound like it) then > you might need to luck into something else, like pyqtgraph or vispy. > > > -- > Thomas Jollans > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
