Re: [Matplotlib-users] mod_python backend?

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Flavio" == Flavio C Coelho <fcc...@fi...> writes:

    Flavio> Hi John, I know that you are probably already overwhelmed
    Flavio> by maintenance and developmente of this great package, but
    Flavio> I came across a post on the mod_python list in which a
    Flavio> person was inquiring about the existance of a plotting
    Flavio> package for mod_python since mod_PHP and mod_Perl have
    Flavio> theirs.  I thought that this could be a great thing to add
    Flavio> to matplotlib: a mod_python backend. It would be awesome
    Flavio> if we could have scientific python applets that could
    Flavio> generate full graphical output on the web.

    Flavio> It shouldn't be too hard to do since it could use any of
    Flavio> the existing backends and just export the resulting figure
    Flavio> to mod_python to embed in a web page...

    Flavio> what do you think?

I am currently using matplotlib as a plotting backend for a web
server.  I'm working with a PHP developer who is writing the html, and
he calls an XML-RPC python server with the parameters for the plot.
The XML-RPC server does some number crunching, generates a plot with
matplotlib, saves it in a tmp dir, and passes the image filename back
to the PHP client.  I'm using the GTK backend running in an Xvfb.

I don't know much about apache, or what is involved in making
something for mod_python.  You wouldn't really need a 'mod_python
backend' would you?  My guess is that you would just need to import
matplotlib into your mod_python python code, for example using the GD
backend, and plot away.  Or is there something more to it?  

Do you know if you can use mod_python and mod_php together?  Can
functions written in one mod_* language communicate with functions
written in another.  My guess is not....  It would be great if I could
use mod_python and my front end person uses mod_php, and we could
communicate within apache w/o going through the XML-RPC server.

John Hunter