gnuplot-py For Linux

gnuplot-py is a Python package that interfaces to gnuplot, the popular open-source plotting program. It allows you to use gnuplot from within Python to plot arrays of data from memory, data files, or mathematical functions. If you use Python to perform computations or as 'glue' for numerical programs, you can use this package to plot data on the fly as they are computed. And the combination with Python makes it is easy to automate things, including to create crude 'animations' by plotting different datasets one after another.

Commands are communicated to gnuplot through a pipe and data either through the same pipe (as "inline" data), through FIFOs (named pipes), or through temporary files. It has been developed under Unix and is known to work under various forms of Unix (including Linux), MS Windows, MacOS, and Mac OS X. There is now also preliminary support for running Gnuplot.py under Jython/Java.

This package has an object-oriented design that allows the user flexibility to set plot options and to run multiple gnuplot sessions simultaneously. If you are more ambitious, it is not difficult to add entirely new types of plottable items by deriving from the 'PlotItem' class.

The package includes a demonstration that can be run by typing 'python demo.py'.