[Matplotlib-users] How to specify size in matplotlib.pyplot.figure(...)?

[lionel k. <lio...@gm...>]

Hello all, I'd like to create a "matplotlib.pyplot.figure(...)" object
and specify the size while I'm at it. I see this argument list from
the matplotlib's documentation:

pyplot.figure(num=None, figsize=(8, 6), dpi=80, facecolor='w', edgecolor='k')

The on-screen size is being computed using inches (for height and
width) and dpi. But I don't know what the dpi is in advance. What can
I do? In case it's relevant, I'm using Python 2.5 and the latest
download of matplotlib.

Thanks in advance.

-L