The documentation presented on http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples is a very good source of information but on some pages it doesn’t give all the data needed to have the example running.
Indeed, some example needs external files and they are not given in the web documentation, for example :
I thing there should be some links on the web pages to download theses files.
At least, it should be said in the docstring where to find them, don’t you think ?
I thing there should be some links on the web pages to download theses
files.
At least, it should be said in the docstring where to find them, don't you
think ?
It would be a good idea -- but for now you can grab the source
distribution *.tar.gz from the download page and look in the
"examples" subdirectory. All the code, data and support files are
there (the web examples are automatically built from this directory).
If you are on a linux/unix box or any box that has an svn client, the
easiest way is to just check out::