Hi,
everytime I try to plot a bar with matplotlib I get the following error
message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "bar_stacked.py", line 13, in ?
p1 = bar(ind, menMeans, width, color='r', yerr=womenStd)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py", line
1641, in bar
ret = gca().bar(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py", line
2485, in bar
xerr = asarray([xerr]*nbars, Float)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Numeric/Numeric.py", line 134,
in asarray
return multiarray.array(a, typecode, copy=0, savespace=savespace)
TypeError: a float is required
So I guess it has something to do with Numeric.py, but I can't figure
out what the problem is. I tried to google but found nothing...
Anyone has the same problem? I can plot all kinds of graphics with
matplotlib, but the only type I'm interested in (bars) will not work.
I tried the examples coming with matplotlib, but even those don't work.
Here is the example code which produces the above error:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# a stacked bar plot with errorbars
from pylab import *
N = 5
menMeans = (20, 35, 30, 35, 27)
womenMeans = (25, 32, 34, 20, 25)
menStd = (2, 3, 4, 1, 2)
womenStd = (3, 5, 2, 3, 3)
ind = arange(N) # the x locations for the groups
width = 0.35 # the width of the bars: can also be len(x) sequence
p1 = bar(ind, menMeans, width, color='r', yerr=womenStd)
p2 = bar(ind, womenMeans, width, color='y',
bottom=menMeans, yerr=menStd)
ylabel('Scores')
title('Scores by group and gender')
xticks(ind+width/2., ('G1', 'G2', 'G3', 'G4', 'G5') )
yticks(arange(0,81,10))
legend( (p1[0], p2[0]), ('Men', 'Women') )
show()
Anyone has matplotlib installed and gets the same error?
I need to create some charts for a project I do at work, so maybe there
are other modules out there creating charts??
Andi
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btw, these are the versions I'm using (Archlinux):
Python: 2.4.3 (python-2.4.3-3)
matplotlib: 0.87.4 (python-matplotlib-0.87.4-1)
PyGTK: 2.8.6 (pygtk-2.8.6-3)
Andi
Andi Clemens wrote:
Hi,
everytime I try to plot a bar with matplotlib I get the following error
message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "bar_stacked.py", line 13, in ?
p1 = bar(ind, menMeans, width, color='r', yerr=womenStd)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py", line
1641, in bar
ret = gca().bar(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py", line 2485,
in bar
xerr = asarray([xerr]*nbars, Float)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Numeric/Numeric.py", line 134,
in asarray
return multiarray.array(a, typecode, copy=0, savespace=savespace)
TypeError: a float is required
So I guess it has something to do with Numeric.py, but I can't figure
out what the problem is. I tried to google but found nothing...
Anyone has the same problem? I can plot all kinds of graphics with
matplotlib, but the only type I'm interested in (bars) will not work.
I tried the examples coming with matplotlib, but even those don't work.
Here is the example code which produces the above error:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# a stacked bar plot with errorbars
from pylab import *
N = 5
menMeans = (20, 35, 30, 35, 27)
womenMeans = (25, 32, 34, 20, 25)
menStd = (2, 3, 4, 1, 2)
womenStd = (3, 5, 2, 3, 3)
ind = arange(N) # the x locations for the groups
width = 0.35 # the width of the bars: can also be len(x) sequence
p1 = bar(ind, menMeans, width, color='r', yerr=womenStd)
p2 = bar(ind, womenMeans, width, color='y',
bottom=menMeans, yerr=menStd)
ylabel('Scores')
title('Scores by group and gender')
xticks(ind+width/2., ('G1', 'G2', 'G3', 'G4', 'G5') )
yticks(arange(0,81,10))
legend( (p1[0], p2[0]), ('Men', 'Women') )
show()
Anyone has matplotlib installed and gets the same error?
I need to create some charts for a project I do at work, so maybe there
are other modules out there creating charts??
Andi
--
homepage: http://www.the-grudge.net
ICQ: 9450091
Skype: thegrudge_2
Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.5
Arch Linux
Andi Clemens wrote:
Hi,
everytime I try to plot a bar with matplotlib I get the following error
message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "bar_stacked.py", line 13, in ?
p1 = bar(ind, menMeans, width, color='r', yerr=womenStd)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py", line
1641, in bar
ret = gca().bar(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py", line
2485, in bar
xerr = asarray([xerr]*nbars, Float)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Numeric/Numeric.py", line 134,
in asarray
return multiarray.array(a, typecode, copy=0, savespace=savespace)
TypeError: a float is required
So I guess it has something to do with Numeric.py, but I can't figure
out what the problem is. I tried to google but found nothing...
Anyone has the same problem? I can plot all kinds of graphics with
matplotlib, but the only type I'm interested in (bars) will not work.
I tried the examples coming with matplotlib, but even those don't work.
Here is the example code which produces the above error:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# a stacked bar plot with errorbars
from pylab import *
N = 5
menMeans = (20, 35, 30, 35, 27)
womenMeans = (25, 32, 34, 20, 25)
menStd = (2, 3, 4, 1, 2)
womenStd = (3, 5, 2, 3, 3)
ind = arange(N) # the x locations for the groups
width = 0.35 # the width of the bars: can also be len(x) sequence
p1 = bar(ind, menMeans, width, color='r', yerr=womenStd)
Call me crazy -- I know SFA about matplotlib -- but I'd expect anything
scientific to barf if given tuples of integers to play with, and
following the docs links matplotlib pylab bar we find:
"""
bar(*args, **kwargs)
BAR(left, height, width=0.8, bottom=0,
color='b', yerr=None, xerr=None, ecolor='k', capsize=3)
Make a bar plot with rectangles at
left, left+width, 0, height
left and height are Numeric arrays.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"""
Which of us is missing what?
Cheers,
John
Sorry but english isn't my native language so I don't really get what
you are trying to tell me, it took me quite a long time to figure out
what SFA means (I guess it is Sweet Fanny Adams =nothing at all).
All examples were taken from the matplotlib-homepage but they won't work
on my installation and I don't know why.
You point out that "left and height are Numeric arrays", and that is
exactly what they are, so what am I missing?
I tried nearly 10 examples from different websites and tutorials and
none of them worked!
So I don't think I'm doing something wrong, or am I?
Andi
John Machin wrote:
>
Call me crazy -- I know SFA about matplotlib -- but I'd expect anything
scientific to barf if given tuples of integers to play with, and
following the docs links matplotlib pylab bar we find:
"""
bar(*args, **kwargs)
BAR(left, height, width=0.8, bottom=0,
color='b', yerr=None, xerr=None, ecolor='k', capsize=3)
Make a bar plot with rectangles at
left, left+width, 0, height
left and height are Numeric arrays.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"""
Which of us is missing what?
Cheers,
John
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Andi Clemens <an**********@gmx.netwrites:
>
everytime I try to plot a bar with matplotlib I get the following
error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "bar_stacked.py", line 13, in ?
p1 = bar(ind, menMeans, width, color='r', yerr=womenStd)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py", line
1641, in bar
ret = gca().bar(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py", line
2485, in bar
xerr = asarray([xerr]*nbars, Float)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Numeric/Numeric.py", line
134, in asarray
return multiarray.array(a, typecode, copy=0, savespace=savespace)
TypeError: a float is required
So I guess it has something to do with Numeric.py, but I can't figure
out what the problem is. I tried to google but found nothing...
Anyone has the same problem? I can plot all kinds of graphics with
matplotlib, but the only type I'm interested in (bars) will not
work.
It looks like it doesn't like not having xerr set. The documentation
says
xerr and yerr, if not None, will be used to generate errorbars on
the bar chart
implying that if they are None (the default), then no errorbars will
be generated. But that doesn't seem to be the case. When I add an xerr
to both p1 and p2
p1 = bar(ind, menMeans, width, color='r', yerr=womenStd,
xerr=zeros(N))
p2 = bar(ind, womenMeans, width, color='y',
bottom=menMeans, yerr=menStd, xerr=zeros(N))
I get the following bar chart http://img176.imageshack.us/my.php?image=imagenx6.png
with no errors.
Tim
THATS IT! Thanks!
But why are all the examples wrong? Maybe they changed the API?
Andi
Tim Heaney wrote:
Andi Clemens <an**********@gmx.netwrites:
>everytime I try to plot a bar with matplotlib I get the following error message: Traceback (most recent call last): File "bar_stacked.py", line 13, in ? p1 = bar(ind, menMeans, width, color='r', yerr=womenStd) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py", line 1641, in bar ret = gca().bar(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py", line 2485, in bar xerr = asarray([xerr]*nbars, Float) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Numeric/Numeric.py", line 134, in asarray return multiarray.array(a, typecode, copy=0, savespace=savespace) TypeError: a float is required
So I guess it has something to do with Numeric.py, but I can't figure out what the problem is. I tried to google but found nothing...
Anyone has the same problem? I can plot all kinds of graphics with matplotlib, but the only type I'm interested in (bars) will not work.
It looks like it doesn't like not having xerr set. The documentation
says
xerr and yerr, if not None, will be used to generate errorbars on
the bar chart
implying that if they are None (the default), then no errorbars will
be generated. But that doesn't seem to be the case. When I add an xerr
to both p1 and p2
p1 = bar(ind, menMeans, width, color='r', yerr=womenStd,
xerr=zeros(N))
p2 = bar(ind, womenMeans, width, color='y',
bottom=menMeans, yerr=menStd, xerr=zeros(N))
I get the following bar chart
http://img176.imageshack.us/my.php?image=imagenx6.png
with no errors.
Tim
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Andi Clemens wrote:
>
All examples were taken from the matplotlib-homepage but they won't work
on my installation and I don't know why.
You point out that "left and height are Numeric arrays", and that is
exactly what they are, so what am I missing?
Looks to me like for "height" you are passing in menMeans which is a
tuple containing integers. The standard deviation args have the same
problem
>
I tried nearly 10 examples from different websites and tutorials and
none of them worked!
Care to point me at the smallest other example that didn't work? Did
you copy/paste the example or did you retype it? Does "not work" mean
each gave the same error from the same line of code in Numeric? If not,
is there any pattern that you can detect?
Tim Heaney found out what the problem is, thanks for your help!
;-)
Andi
John Machin wrote:
Andi Clemens wrote:
>All examples were taken from the matplotlib-homepage but they won't work on my installation and I don't know why. You point out that "left and height are Numeric arrays", and that is exactly what they are, so what am I missing?
Looks to me like for "height" you are passing in menMeans which is a
tuple containing integers. The standard deviation args have the same
problem
>I tried nearly 10 examples from different websites and tutorials and none of them worked!
Care to point me at the smallest other example that didn't work? Did
you copy/paste the example or did you retype it? Does "not work" mean
each gave the same error from the same line of code in Numeric? If not,
is there any pattern that you can detect?
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Andi Clemens <an**********@gmx.netwrites:
>
THATS IT! Thanks!
But why are all the examples wrong? Maybe they changed the API?
I think it's a bug. You should report it. Looking at http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq.html#BUGREPORT
it seems you can use either the mailing list or sourceforge.
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