Bryan: > do you think that pygame would be a good alternative to matplotlib to create > some graphs such simple bar and line graphs?
For graphs MatPlotLib is usually better, and its antialiasing library (Anti-Grain Geometry) is wonderful. Pygame gives a bit more freedom but you have to do all for yourself. > i want to animate them as new data comes comes in. I think MatPlotLib can do this too, if your computer is fast enough. >i would also like to have the bars and graphs have nice shading > if possible to give it a really attractive look. Remember what Edward Tufte (www.edwardtufte.com) says, often too much elaborations makes graphs them less than useless. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list