stand alone tables

Say I wanted to construct a table, just a table,

    > independent of any graph etc. Just like the example
    > table_demo.py but without the bar chart.

The bar chart is incidental to this example. You can plot whatever
you want in an axes and then issue the table command to generate the
table below (or in some other place) around the axes.

Eg, in the example below, I issue a plot command and remove the bar
command from the table_demo in the examples dir (the "colours" module
is also in the examples directory).

JDH

#!/usr/bin/env python
import matplotlib

from pylab import *
from colours import get_colours

axes([0.2, 0.2, 0.7, 0.6]) # leave room below the axes for the table
plot([1,2,3])

data = [[ 66386, 174296, 75131, 577908, 32015],
        [ 58230, 381139, 78045, 99308, 160454],
        [ 89135, 80552, 152558, 497981, 603535],
        [ 78415, 81858, 150656, 193263, 69638],
        [ 139361, 331509, 343164, 781380, 52269]]

colLabels = ('Freeze', 'Wind', 'Flood', 'Quake', 'Hail')
rowLabels = ['%d year' % x for x in (100, 50, 20, 10, 5)]

# Get some pastel shades for the colours
colours = get_colours(len(colLabels))
colours.reverse()
rows = len(data)

ind = arange(len(colLabels)) + 0.3 # the x locations for the groups
cellText =
width = 0.4 # the width of the bars
yoff = array([0.0] * len(colLabels)) # the bottom values for stacked bar chart
for row in xrange(rows):
    yoff = yoff + data[row]
    cellText.append(['%1.1f' % (x/1000.0) for x in yoff])

# Add a table at the bottom of the axes
colours.reverse()
cellText.reverse()
the_table = table(cellText=cellText,
                  rowLabels=rowLabels, rowColours=colours,
                  colLabels=colLabels,
                  loc='bottom')
ylabel("Loss $1000's")

xticks()
title('Loss by Disaster')

show()

John,

Thanks very much for the reply and sample code - my request was actually a little different.
What I really want is a table with no axes/plot at all - just the table.
I had tried what your example suggested but could not get around drawing axes.
I usually use Tex to build my tables but I saw the table demo in the examples and thought that this might be a more automated method.

--Jim

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On Dec 31, 2005, at 6:24 AM, John Hunter wrote:

    > Say I wanted to construct a table, just a table,
    > independent of any graph etc. Just like the example
    > table_demo.py but without the bar chart.

The bar chart is incidental to this example. You can plot whatever
you want in an axes and then issue the table command to generate the
table below (or in some other place) around the axes.

Eg, in the example below, I issue a plot command and remove the bar
command from the table_demo in the examples dir (the "colours" module
is also in the examples directory).

JDH

#!/usr/bin/env python
import matplotlib

from pylab import *
from colours import get_colours

axes([0.2, 0.2, 0.7, 0.6]) # leave room below the axes for the table
plot([1,2,3])

data = [[ 66386, 174296, 75131, 577908, 32015],
        [ 58230, 381139, 78045, 99308, 160454],
        [ 89135, 80552, 152558, 497981, 603535],
        [ 78415, 81858, 150656, 193263, 69638],
        [ 139361, 331509, 343164, 781380, 52269]]

colLabels = ('Freeze', 'Wind', 'Flood', 'Quake', 'Hail')
rowLabels = ['%d year' % x for x in (100, 50, 20, 10, 5)]

# Get some pastel shades for the colours
colours = get_colours(len(colLabels))
colours.reverse()
rows = len(data)

ind = arange(len(colLabels)) + 0.3 # the x locations for the groups
cellText =
width = 0.4 # the width of the bars
yoff = array([0.0] * len(colLabels)) # the bottom values for stacked bar chart
for row in xrange(rows):
    yoff = yoff + data[row]
    cellText.append(['%1.1f' % (x/1000.0) for x in yoff])

# Add a table at the bottom of the axes
colours.reverse()
cellText.reverse()
the_table = table(cellText=cellText,
                  rowLabels=rowLabels, rowColours=colours,
                  colLabels=colLabels,
                  loc='bottom')
ylabel("Loss $1000's")

xticks()
title('Loss by Disaster')

show()

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http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#tables
might be useful if basic tables are your sole need.

Cheers,
Alan Isaac

···

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, James Boyle apparently wrote:

I usually use Tex to build my tables but I saw the table
demo in the examples and thought that this might be a more
automated method.