Re: [Matplotlib-users] Native file format

[Jan S. <cur...@gm...>]

On 2/7/07, Edin Salkovic <edi...@gm...> wrote:
>
> On 2/4/07, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:
> > Jan Strube wrote:
> > > Hi List,
> > > is there a way to store matplotlib figures in something like a native
> > > file format?
> > > I am thinking of something that keeps track of all the objects
> > > (patches(?)) in a mpl figure, so that later you could just revisit
> that
> > > figure and change properties.
> > > Or add/remove objects from the canvas.
> > > I didn't find anything on the website.
> > > Thanks,
> > >     Jan
> >
> > No, there is no mechanism for doing this, although I think it has been
> > requested before.
> >
> > Eric
> >
>
> Why can't mpl's figures be pickled?
>
> Best,
> Edin
>

Sorry, don't know anything about pickling. Is it device-independent?
If I have a problem, could I pickle the figure, attach it to a bug report?
Can I share the files with colleagues on different architechtures?
If so, it maybe good enough.
But otherwise I was more thinking of something like YAML or so.

Cheers,
    Jan