Re: [Matplotlib-users] Boxes and relationships

[Gary R. <gr...@bi...>]

Hi Mike,
Take a look at pydot <http://dkbza.org/pydot.html>. I think John Hunter 
may have used this in the matplotlib manual.
There's an ER diagram in the Graphviz (which pydot wraps) examples:
<http://www.graphviz.org/Gallery/undirected/ER.html>
Enjoy the conference. I'm too cheap to attend :-(
Gary Ruben (from Melbourne)

Mike Dewhirst wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Just dropped in to your list after drawing a blank in your archives. I 
> am attending an Open Source Developers Conference in Melbourne as we 
> speak and got a referral to you from an admirer.
> 
> I'm looking for a Python (I'm new to python and graphics sw) module to 
> visualise subsets of a database of related entities by printing boxes 
> joined by lines.
> 
> The entities are linked with named n:m relationships and I'd like to 
> select one and display it in a box (with the entity name) and all 
> related entities likewise in boxes linked to each other by lines 
> representing the relationships tagged with the names of those 
> relationships.
> 
> I'm thinking I need some clever stuff to ensure as few lines as possible 
> cross and mess up the visualisation.
> 
> At first glance I would say we have a mismatch and your very impressive 
> software is probably overkill for what I want. If I'm on the wrong tram 
> with matplotlib I'd appreciate a redirect. Otherwise, if anyone is 
> prepared to say matplotlib is the way to go I'll download it and start 
> playing.
> 
> Thanks heaps
> 
> mike