plotext 4.0.0

plotext plots directly on terminal

plotext plots directly on terminal, it has no dependencies and the syntax is very similar to matplotlib. It also provide a simple command line tool.

Here is an example of what you could output with plotext:

Follow this menu for details on how to actually use this package.

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• Basic Plots
• Bar Plots
• Datetime Plots
• Plot Aspect
• Matrix/Image Plots
• Multiple Subplots
• Other Utilities

How to Installx

To install the latest version of plotext you could use:

pip install plotext --upgrade

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Main Updates:

Note: there are many new features from the previous version, any bug report is useful and very welcomed.

• entire code re-written
• faster plotting
• higher resolution 3 x 2 unicode mosaics markers (not available in windows)
• new color codes which include 256 color codes and full RGB colors
• multiple and stacked bar charts
• datetime plot and scatter functions
• datetime class added to better handle datetime object of most types
• matrix plot
• image plot
• save plots also in color in html
• file class added to better handle files and file paths
• data can also be plotted on the upper x axis
• unittest file added
• xside and yside parameters introduced for many functions
• columns and rows span in subplots matrix
• more clear functions added
• option to limit or not the plot dimensions in both directions
• bar chart log scale solved on both axes
• bar chart 0 value issue solved
• legend extra character to identify on which axes each data is plotted
• time() function added to check plotting computational time
• xfreq() is now xfrequency(), yfreq() is yfrequency()
• doc class added to easily access all functions doc-strings
• get_canvas() is not build()

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Future Plans

By request:

• mosaic markers available on windows (not sure how)
• remove grid span areas intersection problems
• bar alignment
• finance function
• text widget to add labels to plot (not as easy as it sounds)
• using numpy to handle the matrix of characters and colors (not sure if it will make a difference)
• title styles
• clear only printed lines done properly
• hist plot log scale on y axes
• hd and fhd label ticks that adapts to plot or scatter function

Any help or new ideas are welcomed.

Credits and Sources of Inspiration

• user jtplaarj for the great ideas and codes regarding multiple and stacked bar plots [Issue #48]
• user ethack for requiring log scale on bar plot [Issue #37]
• user gregwa1953 for inspiring plt.limit_size() [Issue #33]
• user rbanffy for suggestion of using 3 x 2 unicode mosaic box characters [Issue #29].
• user henryiii for unittest suggestion [Issue #32]
• user whisller and willmcgugan for integration with Rich package [Issue #26]
• user garid3000 for the idea of a function that returns the plot canvas [Issue #20]
• user robintw and Sauci for horizontal bar plot idea and code, respectively [Issue #16]
• user Zaneo for multiple data set idea [Issue #13]
• user Zaneo for double axes idea [Issue #12]
• users geoffrey-eisenbarth and matthewhanson for requesting datetime support [Issue #7]
• user kris927b for requesting histogram plot [Issue #6]

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