Re: [Matplotlib-users] Printing gif images to file with matplotlib

[Michael D. <md...@st...>]

You can just pass a path to savefig, e.g.:

	savefig("/home/me/test.png")

(The format is automatically determined from the extension).  If you 
want to know which formats are supported by which backends, you can have 
a look at FILETYPES in the source tree here:

http://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/matplotlib/trunk/matplotlib/FILETYPES?view=markup

Many of the examples for matplotlib have savefig, but the line is 
usually commented out.  Just remove the '#' and you have lots of examples.

Cheers,
Mike

Takashi Yamamoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have recently come across Matplotlib and I am very impressed with its 
> capabilities. I am new to both Matplotlib and Python, although I have 
> several years experience with C++ and a few other languages *(including 
> modelling with MatLab).
> 
> I have successfully embedded Python in a C++ application, and can run 
> python scripts from my C++ application. However, I have found displaying 
> graphs in a GUI fraught with (insurmountable?) problems and I have 
> decided to NOT use a GUI at all, but rather, to save plots as image, to 
> file (e.g. png, gif or jpeg).
> 
> Can anyone give me a simple example script that shows how I may use 
> *savefig*(), to save a plot as an image (any of the above formats), to file?
> 
> Thanks
> 
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