I've posted this question to comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot too but given that this python group may also comprise a lot of gnuplot users, and is far more active, I've posted this question here too. My apologies to those who read this twice. I posted to cgag before I decided to post here with a more meaningful subject.
Anyone had any success getting stdout from gnuplot on an ms windows system (XP)? I'm trying to read mouse coordinates using python. This link shows a basic mechanism implemented in python. http://www.physik.tu-dresden.de/~baecker/python/gnuplot.html It is similar to the gnuplot.py code which I understand is unidirectional only ie. send commands to gnuplot via gnuplot stdin. My hope is that I can implement the bidirectional interface in gnuplot.py and give it away to whoever might find it useful. But first, I gotta get it working. I can't seem to get anything back to a python shell by this method. Hangs in the function thats supposed to read stdout. Could be something I'm doing wrong with python but I rather suspect there is something in the way gnuplot on windows deals with stdout that I'm not understanding. btw - I'm using gnuplot 4.1 (Oct 10 cvs build), python 2.3 bwaha -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
