Chart drawing library for Python

[Lothar Scholz]

Hello,

is there something like "JpGraph" for python ?
For those who don't know this PHP library: It is a high level
drawing library that generates gif files with all kind of charts.

Or (maybe better) is there a C library doing this. I think i
read about something like this a while ago.

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Re: Chart drawing library for Python

Hi,
[color=blue]
> is there something like "JpGraph" for python ?
> For those who don't know this PHP library: It is a high level
> drawing library that generates gif files with all kind of charts.
>
> Or (maybe better) is there a C library doing this. I think i
> read about something like this a while ago.[/color]

there has been a thread about this lately: Many people (including me) use
graphviz for that. As long as you don't need interactivity, it does a
really great job.

Diez

[Harry George]

Re: Chart drawing library for Python

llothar@web.de (Lothar Scholz) writes:
[color=blue]
> Hello,
>
> is there something like "JpGraph" for python ?
> For those who don't know this PHP library: It is a high level
> drawing library that generates gif files with all kind of charts.
>
> Or (maybe better) is there a C library doing this. I think i
> read about something like this a while ago.[/color]

To generate jpg's and png's (maybe gif's):

binding for plotutils:

http://biggles.sourceforge.net/libplot/

binding for gnuplot:

http://gnuplot-py.sourceforge.net/

gdchart has a python binding (which I can't bring up right now). Here
is gdchart's own page.

http://www.fred.net/brv/chart/

Also, some people use "R" for fancy charts, and R has a python binding:

http://www.R-project.org/

http://www.omegahat.org/RSPython/index.html

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[Diez B. Roggisch]

Re: Chart drawing library for Python

Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
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> Hi,
>[color=green]
>> is there something like "JpGraph" for python ?
>> For those who don't know this PHP library: It is a high level
>> drawing library that generates gif files with all kind of charts.[/color]
>
> there has been a thread about this lately: Many people (including me) use
> graphviz for that. As long as you don't need interactivity, it does a
> really great job.[/color]

Oops - got confused by the name JpGraph - AFAIK charts aren't the subject of
graphviz....

Diez

[Larry Bates]

Re: Chart drawing library for Python

ReportLab Graphics is nice (www.reportlab.org).

-Larry

"Lothar Scholz" <llothar@web.de > wrote in message
news:6ee58e07.0 401280403.3d52a 9e0@posting.goo gle.com...[color=blue]
> Hello,
>
> is there something like "JpGraph" for python ?
> For those who don't know this PHP library: It is a high level
> drawing library that generates gif files with all kind of charts.
>
> Or (maybe better) is there a C library doing this. I think i
> read about something like this a while ago.[/color]