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| author | Aleksandar Samardzic <asamardzic@gmail.com> | 2010-05-11 22:21:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org> | 2010-05-11 22:21:35 +0200 |
| commit | 570d10d553c1755218cffd6c4ecc8aefd373ee11 (patch) | |
| tree | cb0d8080befe399aaf92a441bebf35e8644bbf15 /academic/matplotlib/README | |
| parent | b7d2872eb8846716dafde560546c1daec2c04e72 (diff) | |
| download | slackbuilds-570d10d553c1755218cffd6c4ecc8aefd373ee11.tar.gz | |
academic/matplotlib: Updated for version 0.98.0
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diff --git a/academic/matplotlib/README b/academic/matplotlib/README index 9ca76c5376..d899f0695f 100644 --- a/academic/matplotlib/README +++ b/academic/matplotlib/README @@ -1,9 +1,7 @@ -Matplotlib is a plotting library for Python which uses syntax similar to -MATLAB. The library provides a "pylab" interface which is procedural -and based on a state machine, like OpenGL. There is also an OOP -interface which has less thorough documentation and greater complexity. -Using the OOP interface, matplotlib plots can be embedded in -applications using generic GUI toolkits like wxPython, Qt or GTK. +Matplotlib strives to produce publication quality 2D graphics for +interactive graphing, scientific publishing, user interface +development and web application servers targeting multiple user +interfaces and hardcopy output formats. There is a 'pylab' mode which +emulates matlab graphics Matplotlib requires NumPy, which is also available at SlackBuilds.org. -Also, pygtk is an optional dependency. |