MatPlotLib Tutorial 1
--D. Thiebaut 10:27, 25 April 2011 (EDT)
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Setup
We use the Eclipse IDE and PyDev to develop Python packages. If you want to setup your environment to match the one used here you will need to install:
- Eclipse: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
- Python: http://www.python.org/download/
- PyDev: http://pydev.org/download.html
- EDP from Enthought: https://www.enthought.com/products/. It contains all you need to run MatPlotLib.
- Note: You should make the Python version installed by EDP as the default Python interpreter for Eclipse. To
Testing
- To test that your installation is ready to go, load up the code from this URL http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/api/unicode_minus.html and run it. You should get a plot, as shown below: