matplotlib 1.0.0 is available for download at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.0/
You can read this announcement with links and rendered figures at
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/whats_new.html
This page just covers the highlights -- for the full story, see the
CHANGELOG below.
A big thanks to all the developers who made this release possible.
Some of the contributions are highlighted below, but a particular
thanks to Eric Firing for new features and a heroic effort closing and
fixing bugs, Jae-Joon Lee for continuing to amaze us with the things
he can make matplotlib do (see gridspec below), Michael Droettboom for
his tireless work tracking down bugs no one else can figure out,
Christoph Gohlke for the Windows binaries, Russell Owens for the O X
binaries, and Benjamin Root and Michiel de Hoon for many bug fixes and
new features.
What's new in matplotlib 1.0
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HTML5/Canvas backend:
Simon Ratcliffe and Ludwig Schwardt have released an HTML5/Canvas
(http://code.google.com/p/mplh5canvas) backend for matplotlib.
The backend is almost feature complete, and they have done a lot of
work comparing their html5 rendered images with our core renderer
Agg. The backend features client/server interactive navigation of
matplotlib figures in an html5 compliant browser.
Sophisticated subplot grid layout:
Jae-Joon Lee has written gridspec, a new module for doing complex
subplot layouts, featuring row and column spans and more. See
http://matplotlib.sf.net/users/gridspec.html for a tutorial overview.
Easy pythonic subplots:
Fernando Perez got tired of all the boilerplate code needed to
create a figure and multiple subplots when using the matplotlib API,
and wrote a subplots helper function
(http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.subplots).
Basic usage allows you to create the figure and an array of subplots
with numpy indexing (starts with 0). Eg::
fig, axarr = plt.subplots(2, 2)
axarr[0,0].plot([1,2,3]) # upper, left
See
http://matplotlib.sf.net/examples/pylab_examples/subplots_demo.html
for several code examples.
Contour fixes and and triplot:
Ian Thomas has fixed a long-standing bug that has vexed our most
talented developers for years. contourf now handles interior masked
regions, and the boundaries of line and filled contours coincide.
Additionally, he has contributed a new module matplotlib.tri and
helper function triplot for creating and plotting unstructured
triangular grids. See
http://matplotlib.sf.net/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.triplot
for the function and
http://matplotlib.sf.net/examples/pylab_examples/triplot_demo.html
for example code.
multiple calls to show supported:
A long standing request is to support multiple calls to `show`.
This has been difficult because it is hard to get consistent
behavior across operating systems, user interface toolkits and
versions. Eric Firing has done a lot of work on rationalizing show
across backends, with the desired behavior to make show raise all
newly created figures and block execution until they are closed.
Repeated calls to show should raise newly created figures since the
last call. Eric has done a lot of testing on the user interface
toolkits and versions and platforms he has access to, but it is not
possible to test them all, so please report problems to the mailing
list and bug tracker.
mplot3d graphs can be embedded in arbitrary axes:
You can now place an mplot3d graph into an arbitrary axes location,
supporting mixing of 2D and 3D graphs in the same figure, and/or
multiple 3D graphs in a single figure, using the "projection"
keyword argument to add_axes or add_subplot. Thanks Ben Root.
http://matplotlib.sf.net/examples/mplot3d/subplot3d_demo.html
tick_params:
Eric Firing wrote tick_params, a convenience method for changing the
appearance of ticks and tick labels. See pyplot function
tick_params and associated Axes matplotlib.axes.Axes.tick_params.
http://matplotlib.sf.net/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.tick_params
Lots of performance and feature enhancements:
* Faster magnification of large images, and the ability to zoom in
to a single pixel
* Local installs of documentation work better
* Improved "widgets" -- mouse grabbing is supported
* More accurate snapping of lines to pixel boundaries
* More consistent handling of color, particularly the alpha channel,
throughout the API
Much improved software carpentry:
The matplotlib trunk is probably in as good a shape as it has ever
been, thanks to improved software carpentry. We now have a buildbot
which runs a suite of nose regression tests on every svn commit,
auto-generating a set of images and comparing them against a set of
known-goods, sending emails to developers on failures with a
pixel-by-pixel image comparison. Releases and release bugfixes
happen in branches, allowing active new feature development to
happen in the trunk while keeping the release branches stable.
Thanks to Andrew Straw, Michael Droettboom and other matplotlib
developers for the heavy lifting.
Bugfix marathon:
Eric Firing went on a bug fixing and closing marathon, closing over
100 bugs on the bug tracker with help from Jae-Joon Lee, Michael
Droettboom, Christoph Gohlke and Michiel de Hoon.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=80706&atid=560720
CHANGELOG since 0.99
2010-07-05 Added Ben Root's patch to put 3D plots in arbitrary axes,
allowing you to mix 3d and 2d in different axes/subplots or
to have multiple 3D plots in one figure. See
examples/mplot3d/subplot3d_demo.py - JDH
2010-07-05 Preferred kwarg names in set_xlim are now 'left' and
'right'; in set_ylim, 'bottom' and 'top'; original
kwargs are still accepted without complaint. - EF
2010-07-05 TkAgg and FltkAgg backends are now consistent with other
interactive backends: when used in scripts from the
command line (not from ipython -pylab), show blocks,
and can be called more than once. - EF
2010-07-02 Modified CXX/WrapPython.h to fix "swab bug" on solaris so
mpl can compile on Solaris with CXX6 in the trunk. Closes
tracker bug 3022815 - JDH
2010-06-30 Added autoscale convenience method and corresponding
pyplot function for simplified control of autoscaling;
and changed axis, set_xlim, and set_ylim so that by
default, they turn off the autoscaling on the relevent
axis or axes. Therefore one can call set_xlim before
plotting a line, for example, and the limits will be
retained. - EF
2010-06-20 Added Axes.tick_params and corresponding pyplot function
to control tick and tick label appearance after an Axes
has been created. - EF
2010-06-09 Allow Axes.grid to control minor gridlines; allow
Axes.grid and Axis.grid to control major and minor
gridlines in the same method call. - EF
2010-06-06 Change the way we do split/dividend adjustments in
finance.py to handle dividends and fix the zero division bug reported
in sf bug 2949906 and 2123566. Note that volume is not adjusted
because the Yahoo CSV does not distinguish between share
split and dividend adjustments making it near impossible to
get volume adjustement right (unless we want to guess based
on the size of the adjustment or scrape the html tables,
which we don't) - JDH
2010-06-06 Updated dateutil to 1.5 and pytz to 2010h.
2010-06-02 Add error_kw kwarg to Axes.bar(). - EF
2010-06-01 Fix pcolormesh() and QuadMesh to pass on kwargs as
appropriate. - RM
2010-05-18 Merge mpl_toolkits.gridspec into the main tree. - JJL
2010-05-04 Improve backend_qt4 so it displays figures with the
correct size - DSD
2010-04-20 Added generic support for connecting to a timer for events. This
adds TimerBase, TimerGTK, TimerQT, TimerWx, and TimerTk to
the backends and a new_timer() method to each backend's
canvas to allow ease of creating a new timer. - RM
2010-04-20 Added margins() Axes method and pyplot function. - EF
2010-04-18 update the axes_grid documentation. -JJL
2010-04-18 Control MaxNLocator parameters after instantiation,
and via Axes.locator_params method, with corresponding
pyplot function. -EF
2010-04-18 Control ScalarFormatter offsets directly and via the
Axes.ticklabel_format() method, and add that to pyplot. -EF
2010-04-16 Add a close_event to the backends. -RM
2010-04-06 modify axes_grid examples to use axes_grid1 and axisartist. -JJL
2010-04-06 rebase axes_grid using axes_grid1 and axisartist modules. -JJL
2010-04-06 axes_grid toolkit is splitted into two separate modules,
axes_grid1 and axisartist. -JJL
2010-04-05 Speed up import: import pytz only if and when it is
needed. It is not needed if the rc timezone is UTC. - EF
2010-04-03 Added color kwarg to Axes.hist(), based on work by
Jeff Klukas. - EF
2010-03-24 refactor colorbar code so that no cla() is necessary when
mappable is changed. -JJL
2010-03-22 fix incorrect rubber band during the zoom mode when mouse
leaves the axes. -JJL
2010-03-21 x/y key during the zoom mode only changes the x/y limits. -JJL
2010-03-20 Added pyplot.sca() function suggested by JJL. - EF
2010-03-20 Added conditional support for new Tooltip API in gtk backend. - EF
2010-03-20 Changed plt.fig_subplot() to plt.subplots() after discussion on
list, and changed its API to return axes as a numpy object array
(with control of dimensions via squeeze keyword). FP.
2010-03-13 Manually brought in commits from branch
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r8191 | leejjoon | 2010-03-13 17:27:57 -0500 (Sat, 13 Mar 2010) | 1 line
fix the bug that handles for scatter are incorrectly set when dpi!=72.
Thanks to Ray Speth for the bug report.
2010-03-03 Manually brought in commits from branch via diff/patch
(svnmerge is broken)
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r8175 | leejjoon | 2010-03-03 10:03:30 -0800 (Wed, 03 Mar 2010) | 1 line
fix arguments of allow_rasterization.draw_wrapper
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r8174 | jdh2358 | 2010-03-03 09:15:58 -0800 (Wed, 03 Mar 2010) | 1 line
added support for favicon in docs build
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r8173 | jdh2358 | 2010-03-03 08:56:16 -0800 (Wed, 03 Mar 2010) | 1 line
applied Mattias get_bounds patch
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r8172 | jdh2358 | 2010-03-03 08:31:42 -0800 (Wed, 03 Mar 2010) | 1 line
fix svnmerge download instructions
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r8171 | jdh2358 | 2010-03-03 07:47:48 -0800 (Wed, 03 Mar 2010) | 1 line
2010-02-25 add annotation_demo3.py that demonstrates new functionality. -JJL
2010-02-25 refactor Annotation to support arbitrary Transform as xycoords
or textcoords. Also, if a tuple of two coordinates is provided,
they are interpreted as coordinates for each x and y position.
-JJL
2010-02-24 Added pyplot.fig_subplot(), to create a figure and a group of
subplots in a single call. This offers an easier pattern than
manually making figures and calling add_subplot() multiple times. FP
2010-02-17 Added Gokhan's and Mattias' customizable keybindings patch
for the toolbar. You can now set the keymap.* properties
in the matplotlibrc file. Newbindings were added for
toggling log scaling on the x-axis. JDH
2010-02-16 Committed TJ's filled marker patch for
left>right>bottom>top>full filled markers. See
examples/pylab_examples/filledmarker_demo.py. JDH
2010-02-11 Added 'bootstrap' option to boxplot. This allows bootstrap
estimates of median confidence intervals. Based on an
initial patch by Paul Hobson. - ADS
2010-02-06 Added setup.cfg "basedirlist" option to override setting
in setupext.py "basedir" dictionary; added "gnu0"
platform requested by Benjamin Drung. - EF
2010-02-06 Added 'xy' scaling option to EllipseCollection. - EF
2010-02-03 Made plot_directive use a custom PlotWarning category, so that
warnings can be turned into fatal errors easily if desired. - FP
2010-01-29 Added draggable method to Legend to allow mouse drag
placement. Thanks Adam Fraser. JDH
2010-01-25 Fixed a bug reported by Olle Engdegard, when using
histograms with stepfilled and log=True - MM
2010-01-16 Upgraded CXX to 6.1.1 - JDH
2009-01-16 Don't create minor ticks on top of existing major
ticks. Patch by Neil Crighton. -ADS
2009-01-16 Ensure three minor ticks always drawn (SF# 2924245). Patch
by Neil Crighton. -ADS
2010-01-16 Applied patch by Ian Thomas to fix two contouring
problems: now contourf handles interior masked regions,
and the boundaries of line and filled contours coincide. - EF
2009-01-11 The color of legend patch follows the rc parameters
axes.facecolor and axes.edgecolor. -JJL
2009-01-11 adjustable of Axes can be "box-forced" which allow
sharing axes. -JJL
2009-01-11 Add add_click and pop_click methods in
BlockingContourLabeler. -JJL
2010-01-03 Added rcParams['axes.color_cycle'] - EF
2010-01-03 Added Pierre's qt4 formlayout editor and toolbar button - JDH
2009-12-31 Add support for using math text as marker symbols (Thanks to tcb)
- MGD
2009-12-31 Commit a workaround for a regression in PyQt4-4.6.{0,1} - DSD
2009-12-22 Fix cmap data for gist_earth_r, etc. -JJL
2009-12-20 spines: put spines in data coordinates, add set_bounds()
call. -ADS
2009-12-18 Don't limit notch size in boxplot to q1-q3 range, as this
is effectively making the data look better than it is. - ADS
2009-12-18 mlab.prctile handles even-length data, such that the median
is the mean of the two middle values. - ADS
2009-12-15 Add raw-image (unsampled) support for the ps backend. - JJL
2009-12-14 Add patch_artist kwarg to boxplot, but keep old default.
Convert boxplot_demo2.py to use the new patch_artist. - ADS
2009-12-06 axes_grid: reimplemented AxisArtist with FloatingAxes support.
Added new examples. - JJL
2009-12-01 Applied Laurent Dufrechou's patch to improve blitting with
the qt4 backend - DSD
2009-11-13 The pdf backend now allows changing the contents of
a pdf file's information dictionary via PdfPages.infodict. - JKS
2009-11-12 font_manager.py should no longer cause EINTR on Python 2.6
(but will on the 2.5 version of subprocess). Also the
fc-list command in that file was fixed so now it should
actually find the list of fontconfig fonts. - JKS
2009-11-10 Single images, and all images in renderers with
option_image_nocomposite (i.e. agg, macosx and the svg
backend when rcParams['svg.image_noscale'] is True), are
now drawn respecting the zorder relative to other
artists. (Note that there may now be inconsistencies across
backends when more than one image is drawn at varying
zorders, but this change introduces correct behavior for
the backends in which it's easy to do so.)
2009-10-21 Make AutoDateLocator more configurable by adding options
to control the maximum and minimum number of ticks. Also
add control of the intervals to be used for ticking. This
does not change behavior but opens previously hard-coded
behavior to runtime modification`. - RMM
2009-10-19 Add "path_effects" support for Text and Patch. See
examples/pylab_examples/patheffect_demo.py -JJL
2009-10-19 Add "use_clabeltext" option to clabel. If True, clabels
will be created with ClabelText class, which recalculates
rotation angle of the label during the drawing time. -JJL
2009-10-16 Make AutoDateFormatter actually use any specified
timezone setting.This was only working correctly
when no timezone was specified. - RMM
2009-09-27 Beginnings of a capability to test the pdf backend. - JKS
2009-09-27 Add a savefig.extension rcparam to control the default
filename extension used by savefig. - JKS