On Dec 27, 2007 8:35 AM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 27, 2007 12:45 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 26, 2007 10:19 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I'm thinking of adding matplotlib and jmol to the history and completely > > > rewriting the graphics section. Thoughts? > > > > Yes, please do. Definitely add how to use pylab as well, i.e., do > > sage: import pylab > > sage: pylab.[tab key] > > to get Matlab-like graphics. Make sure people realize the issues > > with Sage types versus floats, etc. > > > I cannot get one example of pylab from > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html > to work on the sage command line (including the first one, which > is I think included in the sage ref manual). > > However, from the python command line, the pie chart > example works great: > > from pylab import * > # make a square figure and axes > figure(1, figsize=(8,8)) > ax = axes([0.1, 0.1, 0.8, 0.8]) > labels = 'Frogs', 'Hogs', 'Dogs', 'Logs' > fracs = [15,30,45, 10] > figure(1) > pie(fracs, labels=labels) > # figure(2) showa some optional features. autopct is used to label > # the percentage of the pie, and can be a format string or a function > # which takes a percentage and returns a string. explode is a > # len(fracs) sequuence which gives the fraction of the radius to > # offset that slice. > figure(2, figsize=(8,8)) > explode=(0, 0.05, 0, 0) > pie(fracs, explode=explode, labels=labels, autopct='%1.1f%%', shadow=True) > savefig('/home/wdj/pie_demo') > > Do you see what I'm doing wrong here?
I just pasted that in exactly in Sage at the command line and it worked fine. Above you say "it doesn't work". What is the error?!! william --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
