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diff --git a/math/py-gnuplot/pkg-descr b/math/py-gnuplot/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..b76954c65fc5 --- /dev/null +++ b/math/py-gnuplot/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Gnuplot.py is a Python package that interfaces to gnuplot, the popular plotting +program. It allows you to use gnuplot from within Python to plot arrays of data +from memory, data files, or mathematical functions. If you use Python to +perform computations or as `glue' for numerical programs, you can use this +package to plot data on the fly as they are computed. And the combination with +Python makes it is easy to automate things, including to create crude +`animations' by plotting different datasets one after another. + +Commands are communicated to gnuplot through a pipe and data either through +the same pipe (as "inline" data) or through temporary files. It has been +written and tested on a unix computer. + +This package has an object-oriented design that allows the user flexibility to +set plot options and to run multiple gnuplot sessions simultaneously. If you +are more ambitious, it is not difficult to add entirely new types of plottable +items by deriving from the `PlotItem' class. + +For a demonstration, run the python file by typing `python demo.py'. + +WWW: http://monsoon.harvard.edu/~mhagger/Gnuplot/Gnuplot.html |