[Matplotlib-users] Plot aesthetics

[Yang Z. <yan...@gm...>]

Hi, recently I've been using the beautiful (and easy-to-use) pycha[1] 
package for simple bar charts:

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/7139/tput.png

So far, pycha is the closest thing I've found to Office 2007-caliber 
aesthetics.  However, pycha is much more limited than matplotlib, and I 
happen to need error bars on the bar charts to illustrate standard 
deviation.  Is it possible to do produce (for instance) the above chart 
using matplotlib (preferably without lots of coding)?

Here's the pycha homepage: http://bitbucket.org/lgs/pycha/wiki/Home

Thanks in advance!
-- 
Yang Zhang
http://www.mit.edu/~y_z/