Hi all
Just dropped in to your list after drawing a blank in your archives. I am attending an Open Source Developers Conference in Melbourne as we speak and got a referral to you from an admirer.
I'm looking for a Python (I'm new to python and graphics sw) module to visualise subsets of a database of related entities by printing boxes joined by lines.
The entities are linked with named n:m relationships and I'd like to select one and display it in a box (with the entity name) and all related entities likewise in boxes linked to each other by lines representing the relationships tagged with the names of those relationships.
I'm thinking I need some clever stuff to ensure as few lines as possible cross and mess up the visualisation.
At first glance I would say we have a mismatch and your very impressive software is probably overkill for what I want. If I'm on the wrong tram with matplotlib I'd appreciate a redirect. Otherwise, if anyone is prepared to say matplotlib is the way to go I'll download it and start playing.
Thanks heaps
mike
Hi Mike,
Take a look at pydot <http://dkbza.org/pydot.html>\. I think John Hunter may have used this in the matplotlib manual.
There's an ER diagram in the Graphviz (which pydot wraps) examples:
<http://www.graphviz.org/Gallery/undirected/ER.html>
Enjoy the conference. I'm too cheap to attend 
Gary Ruben (from Melbourne)
Mike Dewhirst wrote:
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Hi all
Just dropped in to your list after drawing a blank in your archives. I am attending an Open Source Developers Conference in Melbourne as we speak and got a referral to you from an admirer.
I'm looking for a Python (I'm new to python and graphics sw) module to visualise subsets of a database of related entities by printing boxes joined by lines.
The entities are linked with named n:m relationships and I'd like to select one and display it in a box (with the entity name) and all related entities likewise in boxes linked to each other by lines representing the relationships tagged with the names of those relationships.
I'm thinking I need some clever stuff to ensure as few lines as possible cross and mess up the visualisation.
At first glance I would say we have a mismatch and your very impressive software is probably overkill for what I want. If I'm on the wrong tram with matplotlib I'd appreciate a redirect. Otherwise, if anyone is prepared to say matplotlib is the way to go I'll download it and start playing.
Thanks heaps
mike
Thanks guys - downloading as I sleep 
Regards
mike
Tim Leslie wrote:
It sounds like what you're after would be better done with the graphviz set of programs.
http://www.graphviz.org/
I've used it a couple of times to do various things and it's a pretty amazing package. I don't know of any python libraries for it, but I havn't really looked. Let us know if this meets your needs.
Cheers
Tim
Gary Ruben wrote:
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Hi Mike,
Take a look at pydot <http://dkbza.org/pydot.html>\. I think John Hunter may have used this in the matplotlib manual.
There's an ER diagram in the Graphviz (which pydot wraps) examples:
<http://www.graphviz.org/Gallery/undirected/ER.html>
Enjoy the conference. I'm too cheap to attend
Gary Ruben (from Melbourne)
Mike Dewhirst wrote:
Hi all
Just dropped in to your list after drawing a blank in your archives. I am attending an Open Source Developers Conference in Melbourne as we speak and got a referral to you from an admirer.
I'm looking for a Python (I'm new to python and graphics sw) module to visualise subsets of a database of related entities by printing boxes joined by lines.
The entities are linked with named n:m relationships and I'd like to select one and display it in a box (with the entity name) and all related entities likewise in boxes linked to each other by lines representing the relationships tagged with the names of those relationships.
I'm thinking I need some clever stuff to ensure as few lines as possible cross and mess up the visualisation.
At first glance I would say we have a mismatch and your very impressive software is probably overkill for what I want. If I'm on the wrong tram with matplotlib I'd appreciate a redirect. Otherwise, if anyone is prepared to say matplotlib is the way to go I'll download it and start playing.
Thanks heaps
mike