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Best software for creating charts???? - birdieman - Jan-12-2017 I am still new to Python, so my wording of the question may not be quite right. I will need to produce charts (nothing very fancy, primarily stacked bar charts, but line charts as well) in my current project. I was wondering if anyone had recommendations as to which library (I think that is the correct term) to import -- one that can a novice like me can understand, easiest to use, good colors, etc etc. Thanks RE: Best software for creating charts???? - micseydel - Jan-12-2017 Matplotlib would be the go-to - http://matplotlib.org/users/pyplot_tutorial.html RE: Best software for creating charts???? - birdieman - Jan-12-2017 thank you -- will check it out RE: Best software for creating charts???? - birdieman - Jan-13-2017 I use the PyCharm IDE. I also have Python 3.6 installed, but have not used it. Do I have to download Matplotlib? I ask because when I keyed in "import matplotlib.pyplot as plt" at the top of my program in Pycharm as one of the examples in the tutorial said to do, it gave me an error "no module named Matplotlib" Is there something else I need to do?? Again, I am new to this stuff. Thanks RE: Best software for creating charts???? - snippsat - Jan-13-2017 I guess you use Windows. Matplotlib has C dependencies,so you use wheel from Gohlke. There are minimum Requires: numpy, dateutil, pytz, pyparsing, cycler, setuptools. All installasjon is done with pip .pip should be installed when you did install Python 3.6.Start cmd and post back what pip -V return.Eg: C:\WINDOWS\system32>cd\ C:\>pip -V pip 9.0.1 from c:\python36\lib\site-packages (python 3.6) C:\> RE: Best software for creating charts???? - birdieman - Jan-13-2017 pip 8.1.2 from c:\users\dennis\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages (python 3.6) RE: Best software for creating charts???? - snippsat - Jan-13-2017 First upgrade pip. python -m pip install -U pip Then test that it work. pip install python-dateutil Then we take the rest,if this work. RE: Best software for creating charts???? - birdieman - Jan-13-2017 do I do that at the windows cmd prompt? I tried what you said at the windows command prompt. It went through some stuff and said " you are using pip version 8.1.2, however 9.0.1 is available. You should consider upgrading via the 'python - m pip install --upgrade pip' command. I thought that was what I just did. -- but it apparently did not work Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\Dennis\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\pip\basecommand.py", line 215, in main status = self.run(options, args) File "C:\Users\Dennis\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\pip\commands\install.py", line 317, in run prefix=options.prefix_path, File "C:\Users\Dennis\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\pip\req\req_set.py", line 742, in install **kwargs File "C:\Users\Dennis\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\pip\req\req_install.py", line 831, in install self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root, prefix=prefix) File "C:\Users\Dennis\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\pip\req\req_install.py", line 1032, in move_wheel_files isolated=self.isolated, File "C:\Users\Dennis\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\pip\wheel.py", line 463, in move_wheel_files generated.extend(maker.make(spec)) File "C:\Users\Dennis\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\distlib\scripts.py", line 372, in make self._make_script(entry, filenames, options=options) File "C:\Users\Dennis\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\distlib\scripts.py", line 276, in _make_script self._write_script(scriptnames, shebang, script, filenames, ext) File "C:\Users\Dennis\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\distlib\scripts.py", line 212, in _write_script launcher = self._get_launcher('t') File "C:\Users\Dennis\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\distlib\scripts.py", line 351, in _get_launcher result = finder(distlib_package).find(name).bytes File "C:\Users\Dennis\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\distlib\resources.py", line 324, in finder raise DistlibException('Unable to locate finder for %r' % package) pip._vendor.distlib.DistlibException: Unable to locate finder for 'pip._vendor.distlib' I will have to continue this tomorrow -- thanks for your help RE: Best software for creating charts???? - snippsat - Jan-13-2017 I think you should uninstall,there where bug report of this on beta 3.6. Follow this. So make sure to make a better path like C:\Python36 .Make sure that that Add Python 3.6 to Path and pip is marked on.Restart. Now do pip -V ,think python 3.6 final has version 9 of pip.
RE: Best software for creating charts???? - wavic - Jan-13-2017 Hello! https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python#data-visualization |