Comments on: Book review: “Matplotlib for Python developers” by Sandro Tosi

By: eliben

eliben — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:03:50 +0000

@Neil: yes, it has a section on real-time updating plots

By: Nei Murphy

Nei Murphy — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:29:37 +0000

IT would be helpful to know if the book covers real time plotting or just plots displayed once and not updated

By: Sandro Tosi

Sandro Tosi — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:39:56 +0000

@Eli: thanks for the review of the book! Yep, I faced many problem with the editors, that several times tried to disrupt even the meaning of some pieces (and, just for the reference, even them were not native english, sigh) and not for “strange” layout problems.

I find some of your remarks correct (like the sections un-numbered), but for the contents please also note that the cut of the book was already decided by Packt (i.e. it is meant to be a book for those willing to use mpl in their applications) and I had not that much freedom.

@gab: 3D was added officially in Matplotlib only in mid September 2009, and at that time, the book was already finished and in the hands of the editor, so I was not able to add any reference to it.

By: gab

gab — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:39:44 +0000

I ordered the book, and I found it too elementary. It addresses just to beginers.
I was interested in mplot3d, but it does not deal with.