Matplotlib for Python Developers电子书

Matplotlib for Python Developers

Table of Contents

Matplotlib for Python Developers

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Introduction to Matplotlib

Merits of Matplotlib

Matplotlib web sites and online documentation

Output formats and backends

Output formats

Backends

About dependencies

Build dependencies

Installing Matplotlib

Installing Matplotlib on Linux

Installing Matplotlib on Windows

Installing Matplotlib on Mac OS X

Installing Matplotlib using packaged Python distributions

Installing Matplotlib from source code

Testing our installation

Summary

2. Getting Started with Matplotlib

First plots with Matplotlib

Multiline plots

A brief introduction to NumPy arrays

Grid, axes, and labels

Adding a grid

Handling axes

Adding labels

Titles and legends

Adding a title

Adding a legend

A complete example

Saving plots to a file

Interactive navigation toolbar

IPython support

Controlling the interactive mode

Suppressing functions output

Configuring Matplotlib

Configuration files

Configuring through the Python code

Selecting backend from code

Summary

3. Decorate Graphs with Plot Styles and Types

Markers and line styles

Control colors

Specifying styles in multiline plots

Control line styles

Control marker styles

Finer control with keyword arguments

Handling X and Y ticks

Plot types

Histogram charts

Error bar charts

Bar charts

Pie charts

Scatter plots

Polar charts

Navigation Toolbar with polar plots

Control radial and angular grids

Text inside figure, annotations, and arrows

Text inside figure

Annotations

Arrows

Summary

4. Advanced Matplotlib

Object-oriented versus MATLAB styles

A brief introduction to Matplotlib objects

Our first (simple) example of OO Matplotlib

Subplots

Multiple figures

Additional Y (or X) axes

Logarithmic axes

Share axes

Plotting dates

Date formatting

Axes formatting with axes tick locators and formatters

Custom formatters and locators

Text properties, fonts, and LaTeX

Fonts

Using LaTeX formatting

Mathtext

External TeX renderer

Contour plots and image plotting

Contour plots

Image plotting

Summary

5. Embedding Matplotlib in GTK+

A brief introduction to GTK+

Introduction to GTK+ signal system

Embedding a Matplotlib figure in a GTK+ window

Including a navigation toolbar

Real-time plots update

Embedding Matplotlib in a Glade application

Designing the GUI using Glade

Code to use Glade GUI

Summary

6. Embedding Matplotlib in Qt 4

Brief introduction to Qt 4 and PyQt4

Embedding a Matplotlib figure in a Qt window

Including a navigation toolbar

Real-time update of a Matplotlib graph

Embedding Matplotlib in a GUI made with Qt Designer

Designing the GUI using Qt Designer

Code to use the Qt Designer GUI

Introduction to signals and slots

Returning to the example

Summary

7. Embedding Matplotlib in wxWidgets

Brief introduction to wxWidgets and wxPython

Embedding a Matplotlib figure in a wxFrame

Including a navigation toolbar

Real-time plots update

Embedding Matplotlib in a GUI made with wxGlade

Summary

8. Matplotlib for the Web

Matplotlib and CGI

What is CGI

Configuring Apache for CGI execution

Simple CGI example

Matplotlib in a CGI script

Passing parameters to a CGI script

Matplotlib and mod_python

What is mod_python

Apache configuration for mod_python

Matplotlib in a mod_python example

Matplotlib and mod_python's Python Server Pages

Web Frameworks and MVC

Matplotlib and Django

What is Django

Matplotlib in a Django application

Matplotlib and Pylons

What is Pylons

Matplotlib in a Pylons application

Summary

9. Matplotlib in the Real World

Plotting data from a database

Plotting data from the Web

Plotting data by parsing an Apache log file

Plotting data from a CSV file

Plotting extrapolated data using curve fitting

Tools using Matplotlib

NetworkX

Mpmath

Plotting geographical data

First example

Using satellite background

Plot data over a map

Plotting shapefiles with Basemap

Summary

Index