Hey,
last weekend I wrote a hook which can track figure creation. Basically
it takes care of creating the new figure and wraps it to track all
changes to it. Its a hack, and the code is not cleaned up or tested
much, but I like to do scripts that I run with many parameters to create
plots and it works well to allow me to open the figures in a way that I
can zoom, etc. and would allow editing (a bit) later on too. So while I
doubt the approach can be made something serious, and there are probably
things that don't work (right now 3D Axis can be done with a bit extra
but mouse zooming does not work inside a 3D Axis, though I think its
likely not difficult to change), I thought I would put it online because
I am not aware of any way to save matplotlib figures:
https://github.com/seberg/haunter-for-matplotlib-figures
Maybe someone finds it useful or interesting 
Regards,
Sebastian Berg
Hi,
This sounds actually very interesting. I have been thinking about how to save matplotlib figures in a way comparable to the Matlab .fig format: a file that holds the data (for instance using HDF5/pytables, some figures might hold a lot of data) and the plotting commands to exactly reconstruct the figure. However, I never got around of thinking about an actual implementation for Matplotlib. Hopefully your work can inspire me to actually get it started , and I will try to find some time to dig in your code the coming weeks.
At the Spyder mailing list the idea of saving figures a la Matlab briefly popped before as well: http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib/browse_thread/thread/bf582bac96ff875/d5e94fe9296afbe5
I think saving figures in this manner would be a nice feature for matplotlib.
Thanks for sharing this!
Regards,
David
PS: sorry to Sebastian for sending the message twice
···
On 15/03/12 11:22, Sebastian Berg wrote:
Hey,
last weekend I wrote a hook which can track figure creation. Basically
it takes care of creating the new figure and wraps it to track all
changes to it. Its a hack, and the code is not cleaned up or tested
much, but I like to do scripts that I run with many parameters to create
plots and it works well to allow me to open the figures in a way that I
can zoom, etc. and would allow editing (a bit) later on too. So while I
doubt the approach can be made something serious, and there are probably
things that don't work (right now 3D Axis can be done with a bit extra
but mouse zooming does not work inside a 3D Axis, though I think its
likely not difficult to change), I thought I would put it online because
I am not aware of any way to save matplotlib figures:
https://github.com/seberg/haunter-for-matplotlib-figures
Maybe someone finds it useful or interesting
Regards,
Sebastian Berg
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Indeed, saving figures in the manner of Matlab would be a great feature enhancement for Matplotlib.
Keep Hacking !
Cheers
François
Hi,
I have been dreaming about this for a long time too,
This would really be a nice feature. I often need to come back to the formatting of a plot, and its formatting only, without the need to really access the data (which I often end up calculating again!)
Guillaume
···
Le 16/03/2012 09:17, David Verelst a écrit :
Hi,
This sounds actually very interesting. I have been thinking about how to
save matplotlib figures in a way comparable to the Matlab .fig format: a
file that holds the data (for instance using HDF5/pytables, some figures
might hold a lot of data) and the plotting commands to exactly
reconstruct the figure. However, I never got around of thinking about an
actual implementation for Matplotlib. Hopefully your work can inspire me
to actually get it started , and I will try to find some time to dig in
your code the coming weeks.
At the Spyder mailing list the idea of saving figures a la Matlab
briefly popped before as well:
http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib/browse_thread/thread/bf582bac96ff875/d5e94fe9296afbe5
I think saving figures in this manner would be a nice feature for
matplotlib.
Thanks for sharing this!
Regards,
David
PS: sorry to Sebastian for sending the message twice
On 15/03/12 11:22, Sebastian Berg wrote:
Hey,
last weekend I wrote a hook which can track figure creation. Basically
it takes care of creating the new figure and wraps it to track all
changes to it. Its a hack, and the code is not cleaned up or tested
much, but I like to do scripts that I run with many parameters to create
plots and it works well to allow me to open the figures in a way that I
can zoom, etc. and would allow editing (a bit) later on too. So while I
doubt the approach can be made something serious, and there are probably
things that don't work (right now 3D Axis can be done with a bit extra
but mouse zooming does not work inside a 3D Axis, though I think its
likely not difficult to change), I thought I would put it online because
I am not aware of any way to save matplotlib figures:
https://github.com/seberg/haunter-for-matplotlib-figures
Maybe someone finds it useful or interesting
Regards,
Sebastian Berg
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