[wxPython-users] Re: Recommend a plotting library?

[Christopher Barker]

Grant Edwards wrote:

> Obviously (I hope), the list of vectors is prepared separate
> from the actual call to axes.plot() using a looping construct.

sure, but MPL is putting hundreds of separate line objects on the plot 
-- that's what's killing you.
 > that's not unexpected since it includes numarry,
> numpy, and numeric (and both Gnuplot and matplotlib).

OK, so you need gnuplot for 3-d, but why all three num* packages? It's 
really time for us all to go to numpy...

Not to keep bugging you about this, but if you used FloatCanvas, then 
you wouldn't need MPL, which is pretty big.

-Chris



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