Re: [Gnuplot-py-users] Example for PlotItem is missing

[Andreas T. <ti...@rk...>]

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Michael Haggerty wrote:

> For just setting tables and line types and stuff you don't have to
> extend the PlotItem interface directly; you can use the Data class
> which is a type of PlotItem already customized for array data.
>
> There are many examples in demo.py about how to use the Data class.
> For example,
>
>     x = arange(10, typecode=Float)
>     y1 = x**2
>     d = Gnuplot.Data(x, y1,
>                      title='calculated by python',
>                      with='points 3 3')
Ahh, now this is clear.  I just was 'grep'ing for PlotItem and did not
found this keyword.  The reason is that I'm quite a Python beginner, sorry.

> You would do something like the following (untested):
>
> g.plot(
>     Gnuplot.Data(X, title='This is the X dataset', with='linespoints'),
>     Gnuplot.Data(Y, title='Some more data', with='points 2 5'),
>     )
I've got the point now.

Thanks for this fine software!

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> new there are only a few messages in it.
I'll do so for my next question ;-).  The amount of lists I'm subscribed
is quite high but if this is a low volume list I can cope with this.

Kind regards

        Andreas.