Re: [Matplotlib-users] another pango font error

[Darren D. <dd...@co...>]

>John writes:
>I still support the other backends because people still use them but
>spend less energy porting all the new features to them. If someone
>says "I need alpha blending on WX", I usually say "Can you use
>WXAgg?", and so on.  postscript is still very actively maintained
>because it is in a different category and widely used for publication
>and TeX.

All things to all people...PS support is a big selling point.

>Now I see why you were looking at
>interactive2.py -- you want to embed a python shell in your
>application.

No, not really. I was just reading through the documentation, found 
interactive2, and tried it out. I like the command recall better than Idle. 
It would be interesting to have a matplotlib user interface, akin to the 
one from Matlab. If for no other reason than to make converts like myself 
feel familiar. For example, I still dont know how to change the working 
directory from inside the shell, or how to access a list of attributes for 
an object.

>You may also want to look into VTK if you need 3D plotting, which has
>nice integration with pygtk.  I use this a lot in my application.  I
>find it amazing that you can embed an OpenGL window into a GTK widget
>set wrapped by pygtk running in a python interpreter on a Microsoft
>Windows OS and still get hardware acceleration!

And a partridge in a pear tree.

(that IS impressive!)