Printing gif images to file with matplotlib

Hi,
I have recently come across Matplotlib and I am very impressed with its capabilities. I am new to both Matplotlib and Python, although I have several years experience with C++ and a few other languages *(including modelling with MatLab).
I have successfully embedded Python in a C++ application, and can run python scripts from my C++ application. However, I have found displaying graphs in a GUI fraught with (insurmountable?) problems and I have decided to NOT use a GUI at all, but rather, to save plots as image, to file (e.g. png, gif or jpeg).
Can anyone give me a simple example script that shows how I may use savefig(), to save a plot as an image (any of the above formats), to file?

Thanks

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You can just pass a path to savefig, e.g.:

  savefig("/home/me/test.png")

(The format is automatically determined from the extension). If you want to know which formats are supported by which backends, you can have a look at FILETYPES in the source tree here:

Many of the examples for matplotlib have savefig, but the line is usually commented out. Just remove the '#' and you have lots of examples.

Cheers,
Mike

Takashi Yamamoto wrote:

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Hi,

I have recently come across Matplotlib and I am very impressed with its capabilities. I am new to both Matplotlib and Python, although I have several years experience with C++ and a few other languages *(including modelling with MatLab).

I have successfully embedded Python in a C++ application, and can run python scripts from my C++ application. However, I have found displaying graphs in a GUI fraught with (insurmountable?) problems and I have decided to NOT use a GUI at all, but rather, to save plots as image, to file (e.g. png, gif or jpeg).

Can anyone give me a simple example script that shows how I may use *savefig*(), to save a plot as an image (any of the above formats), to file?

Thanks

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