Matplotlib

Description

Matplotlib is a python 2D plotting library which produces publication quality figures in a variety of hardcopy formats and interactive environments across platforms.

User instructions

Matplotlib 2.0.0 is installed on all the workstations from the Debian repositories.

Extensive documentation is available at http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/. Good quality documentation is also availably interactively via python docstrings, e.g.

import pylab
print pylab.plot.__doc__

Note that matplotlib does not play nicely when multiple versions are installed. In particular, the cached objects stored in $HOME/.matplotlib are not always (i.e. usually are not) compatible between different versions. Errors related to fonts when using matplotlib can usually be resolved by simply deleting the $HOME/.matplotlib directory, which typically only contains cached data which is simply regenerated automatically when (the different version of) matplotlib is subsequently used.

License

Based upon the PSF licence. Uses only BSD compatible code.

Admin notes

The version from the Debian repositories is sufficiently recent currently.