Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plot data from custom class

[Glen W. M. <Gle...@sw...>]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 09:41:03AM -0500, Simon Wood wrote:
> Out of the box matplotlib works great with Numeric and numarray data types.
> However, I have my own custom class which contains data members, methods and
> an array of data (underlying C array). Is there a way to expose the C array
> data to the plot() routines? For example I would like to be able to use
> plot(X) where X is an instantiated object of type MyClass.

One approach that I've used recently is to simply provide functionality
for the [] operator (done by implementing the __getslice__ member
function) that accesses the data according to standard slicing rules.
Then, you can use plot() directly.

Glen