Welcome to plotpy’s documentation!

plotpy is is a Python library providing efficient 2D data-plotting features for interactive computing and signal/image processing application development.

plotpy is part of the PlotPyStack project, which aims at providing a full set of Python libraries for data plotting and data analysis.

plotpy is based on:

• Python language and Qt GUI toolkit (via PySide or PyQt)

• guidata automatic GUI generation library (PlotPyStack project)

• PythonQwt plotting widgets library (PlotPyStack project)

• NumPy and SciPy scientific computing libraries

A panorama of plotpy’s features.

External resources:

• Python Package Index: PyPI

• Bug reports and feature requests: GitHub

Table of contents

• Getting started
  • Overview
  • Motivation
  • Installation
  • Examples
  • Licenses
• Features
  • Plot widgets
  • Plot items
  • Plot tools
  • Styles for items and tools
  • Plot panels
  • Colormaps
  • Curve fitting widgets
  • Interactive plotting widgets
  • Resize dialog
  • Rotate/crop dialog
  • Flip/rotate dialog
  • Select dialog
  • Image file dialog helpers
  • Input/Output helper functions
  • Qt signals
  • Utilities
  • Event handling
• Development
  • How to contribute
  • How to build, test and deploy
  • How to migrate from guiqwt
  • How to migrate from plotpy V1
  • Reference test platforms
• Changelog

• Index