Re: [matplotlib-devel] numpification and imports

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

Tom Holroyd (NIH/NIMH) [E] wrote:
> 
> Ted Drain wrote:
>> I think the basic idea is that if I want to use MPL, I should import 
>> it and go and I should not have to import a sub-module out of MPL as 
>> the main API.
> 
> Yeah, about that, my typical usage is actually "from pylab import *".
> I guess I am unclear about the relationship between matplotlib and pylab.
> 

Tom,

matplotlib is the object-oriented plotting library; pylab is a module 
within matplotlib that provides a matlab-style (state-machine) interface 
to the library.

Eric