Hello Homer (even if I would have rather called you with your proper name)
Like the title of the post says, this is a totally noobie question. I have
an older system running Kubuntu 7.04 with Matplotlib 0.90.0 and for the life
of me, I can't figure out how to start the program.
It seems you missed a "little" bit: matplotlib is not a program
Matplotlib is a library you can use while programming in python to
generate graphs.
Let me give you a very simple example (I'll be using ipython, but take
the code and put it into the python interpreter or in a script and it
will work the same):
$ ipython
Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Feb 18 2009, 03:00:47)
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
IPython 0.9.1 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
? -> Introduction and overview of IPython's features.
%quickref -> Quick reference.
help -> Python's own help system.
object? -> Details about 'object'. ?object also works, ?? prints more.
In [1]: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
In [2]: import numpy as np
In [3]: x = np.arange(0,2*np.pi,.01)
In [4]: y = np.sin(x**2)*np.exp(-x)
In [5]: plt.plot(x, y)
Out[5]: [<matplotlib.lines.Line2D object at 0x1ab5810>]
In [6]: plt.show()
I hope you'll find it interesting, and explore more about matplotlib.
Cheers,
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On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 02:30, (_8*(l)Homer <letourneau.joe@...287...> wrote:
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