wxmplot: wxPython plotting widgets using matplotlib¶
wxmplot provides wxPython widgets and python functions for displaying numerical data using matplotlib.
While matplotlib provides excellent general-purpose plotting functionality supports many backends, it does not have tight integration with any particular GUI toolkit. While The matplotlib.pyplot module provides easy-to-use functions for plotting and displaying data, the features of its Navigation Toolbars for interactivity and customizations are minimal. On the other hand, while wxPython has some basic plotting functionality, it has nothing as good as matplotlib.
wxmplot bridges the gap between matplotlib and wxPython by providing wxPython widgets and user-friendly functions for basic 2D line plots, image display, and some custom plots. The displays made with wxmplot give end-users highly interactive displays of their data that allow zooming and un-zooming, reporting mouse positions, rotating images, and changing color themes. The displays are highly configurable, helping the user to change many aspects of the plot such as colors, line types, labels, marker type, color tables, smoothing. To be clear, wxmplot does not expose all of matplotlib’s capabilities, but it does provide plotting and image display tools that handle many of the most common plotting and image display needs for scientific data.
The easy-to-use wxmplot.interactive functions enable script writers
to make 2D line plots and image displays from their data, and to interact
with and configure these displays as part of exploratory data analysis.
Programmers can use the wxmplot widgets to include these high quality
graphical displays of data in their wxPython applications to enable users
to explore their data.