Python plotting libraries [closed]

Plotly lets you make graphs using a Python API, matplotlib, and pandas. Their IPython gallery has some example scientific graphs with the Python scripts that generated them.

Here's a sample:

Some recent exciting open source offerings:

• ggplot is based on R's ggplot2, with aesthetically pleasing defaults and a really concise api. wants to be a matplotlib killer

• bokeh makes interactive (html canvas) plots. emphasis on interativity + handling big data

• vega translates JSON "plot descriptions" into SVG or Canvas-based interactive plots, and vincent is a declarative interface for generating the JSON specifications.

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There is a list of Python-based plotting tools on the Python wiki.

You can always use the object-oriented framework for Matplotlib instead of the pylab interface.

I have used Gnuplot.py with great success.