[Gnuplot-py-users] Gnuplot-py on Cygwin/X

[Crider, J. A <jos...@Bo...>]

I've been looking at open source plotting packages for Python to use in
a new internal project I'm heading up.  At a minimum, the platforms we
want to support are Linux, Solaris, and Cygwin/X.  Now that all of the
plotting packages are being dropped from SciPy (and gplt didn't support
all of the features we need anyway), it appears that we will have to
choose between Gnuplot-py and Matplotlib or roll our own.

Since Gnuplot does support all of the features we need, I believe
Gnuplot-py would be sufficient for our needs.  However, I've got one
small problem with version 1.7 on Cygwin/X for which I've found one
solution, but I would like to know if anyone has come up with a better
solution.  My first attempt to use Gnuplot-py failed miserably, but that
appears to have been a problem with my Cygwin installation.  After
re-installing a recent version, it is going much better.  However, I had
to make two changes to gp_cygwin.py:  change the values of
gnuplot_command to 'gnuplot.exe' (line 41) and default_term to 'x11'
(line 60).  Is there a better solution so that I would not have to
maintain these changes if a newer version of Gnuplot-py is released that
I want to use?

J. Allen Crider