Plotting Graphs using Gnuplot

[arslanburney]

Hello. Was trying to create a simple plotting function. Wasnt working
however. If i write the same code without putting it inside a function
it works. :S. Could some1 tell me the problem? Heres the code:
# File name Plotting2

import Gnuplot

def plot(original, expected, actual):
if type (original) != type([]):
return False

else:

gp = Gnuplot.Gnuplot()
gp('set data style lines')
# Make the plot items
plot1 = Gnuplot.PlotItems.Data(original, title="Original")
plot2 = Gnuplot.PlotItems.Data(expected, title="Expected")
plot3 = Gnuplot.PlotItems.Data(actual, title="Acutal")
return gp.plot(plot1, plot2, plot3)
----

import Plotting2 #The name of my file...

Plotting2.plot( [(2,3), (3,4)], [(4,5), (5,6)], [(1,3), (4,8)] )

[Fuzzyman]

On Jun 12, 12:30 pm, [e-mail] wrote:

Hello. Was trying to create a simple plotting function. Wasnt working
however. If i write the same code without putting it inside a function
it works. :S. Could some1 tell me the problem? Heres the code:

# File name Plotting2

import Gnuplot

def plot(original, expected, actual):

if type (original) != type([]):
return False

else:

gp = Gnuplot.Gnuplot()
gp('set data style lines')

# Make the plot items
plot1 = Gnuplot.PlotItems.Data(original, title="Original")
plot2 = Gnuplot.PlotItems.Data(expected, title="Expected")
plot3 = Gnuplot.PlotItems.Data(actual, title="Acutal")

return gp.plot(plot1, plot2, plot3)

----

import Plotting2 #The name of my file...

Plotting2.plot( [(2,3), (3,4)], [(4,5), (5,6)], [(1,3), (4,8)] )

I've no idea about the answer to your question (I don't know how the
Gnuplot module works and I can't *see* anything obviously wrong with
your code), but this line:

if type (original) != type([])

is better written:

if not isinstance(original, list):

Michael Foord
http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/

[Peter Otten]

ar**********@gmail.com wrote:

Hello. Was trying to create a simple plotting function. Wasnt working
however. If i write the same code without putting it inside a function
it works. :S. Could some1 tell me the problem?

Judging from the demo you have to keep a Gnuplot.Gnuplot instance alive. If
you don't, the display window is immediately garbage-collected.

Heres the code:
# File name Plotting2

import Gnuplot

def plot(original, expected, actual):
if type (original) != type([]):
return False

else:

gp = Gnuplot.Gnuplot()
gp('set data style lines')
# Make the plot items
plot1 = Gnuplot.PlotItems.Data(original, title="Original")
plot2 = Gnuplot.PlotItems.Data(expected, title="Expected")
plot3 = Gnuplot.PlotItems.Data(actual, title="Acutal")

gp.plot(plot1, plot2, plot3)
return gp

>

----

import Plotting2 #The name of my file...

gp = Plotting2.plot( [(2,3), (3,4)], [(4,5), (5,6)], [(1,3), (4,8)] )
raw_input()

By the way, I recommend that you raise an Exception instead of returning a
special value when plot() cannot deal with the arguments passed to it.

Peter

[Helmut Jarausch]

ar**********@gmail.com wrote:

Hello. Was trying to create a simple plotting function. Wasnt working
however. If i write the same code without putting it inside a function
it works. :S. Could some1 tell me the problem? Heres the code:
# File name Plotting2

import Gnuplot

def plot(original, expected, actual):
if type (original) != type([]):
return False

else:

gp = Gnuplot.Gnuplot()

Replace this by (from
http://wiki.aims.ac.za/mediawiki/ind...Gnuplot_module
)
gp = Gnuplot.Gnuplot(persist=1)

gp('set data style lines')
# Make the plot items
plot1 = Gnuplot.PlotItems.Data(original, title="Original")
plot2 = Gnuplot.PlotItems.Data(expected, title="Expected")
plot3 = Gnuplot.PlotItems.Data(actual, title="Acutal")
return gp.plot(plot1, plot2, plot3)
----

import Plotting2 #The name of my file...

Plotting2.plot( [(2,3), (3,4)], [(4,5), (5,6)], [(1,3), (4,8)] )

--
Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany