Re: [matplotlib-devel] use of the SciPy Array Interface

On 11/21/06, Andrew Straw <str...@as...> wrote:
>
> Joachim Dahl wrote:
> > Dear developers,
> >
> > I am a happy user of Matplotlib,  which is a wonderful library - thank
> > you!
> >
> > Would it possible to support the SciPy Array interface in more places
> > to make
> > Matplotlib less dependent on Numpy/numarray?
> I guess you mean numpy where you say scipy and Numeric where you say
> numpy?


Probably - I wouldn't be the first to get the names wrong... ;)

In that case, the answer is yes:
>
> numpy.asarray( you_array_interface_supporting_object_here )
>
> I know you can convert arrays, but it would nice not to have to.  E.g.,
this works:
imshow(matrix([[1.0,2.0],[3.0,4.0]]),

this doesn't:
matshow(matrix([[1.0,2.0],[3.0,4.0]])
but this does
matshow(pylab.array(matrix([[1.0,2.0],[3.0,4.0]])