polar plots, clockwise, north

2009-04-16 Thread enricong
I've been trying to figure out how to do this for a while with matplotlib. I need to make polar plots which go around clockwise and have 0deg on top (north) instead of on the side (east). How can this be done? If matplotlib cannot do this, is there something that does work? -- http://mail.python

Re: polar plots, clockwise, north

2009-04-18 Thread enricong
Thanks, I had tried this earlier but by rotating the data in this fashion, it has problems connecting the endpoints between 0 and 360 and tries to go counter clockwise around. I am then left with an extra circle in all my plots where it attempts to connect the points between 360 and 0 (now 100 and

Re: polar plots, clockwise, north

2009-04-29 Thread enricong
Thank you for your post. I checked and it seems that the library I use (matplotlib) will only plot in a counter-clockwise direction starting at "east". I can rotate the data so that the plot looks correct, however since the library still wants to plot counter- clockwise, it attempts to connect th

building 32-bit PyQT4 and matplotlib on X86_64

2009-05-08 Thread enricong
I'm having some issues attempting to build PyQT4 and matplotlib. I'm on a 64-bit machine and am trying to build a 32-bit version. I have already installed seperate 32-bit libs and a 32-bit version of python however I continue to run into two basic problems With PyQT4, I dont know how to tell it