pltfront - a simple matplotlib frontend

pltfront is a bare-bones Python plotting package, which provides an easy interface for matplotlib and removes some complexity from repetitive plotting tasks.

Quick start

Let's plot the exponential function in [0, 1]

from pltfront.plot import Plot
import numpy as np

# Generate the data set
x = np.linspace(0., 1.)
y = np.exp(x)

# Plot
label = "$e^x$"

plotting = Plot()
plotting.plot(x, y, kind='line', label=label, legend=True, title=r'$f(x)=e^x$', show=True)

For multiple superimposed plots, a list of lists is all it takes

xs = [x for i in range(2)]
ys = [np.exp(x), np.exp(2*x)]

labels = ["$e^x$", "$e^{2x}$"]
kinds = ['line', 'scatter']

_ = plotting.plot(xs, ys, label=labels, kind=kinds, legend=True, show=True)

Features

• Simple interface for matplotlib plotting functions
• User-specified plotting functions can be used (as long as they are callable!)
• Multiple plots can be superimposed

Requirements

• matplotlib >= 3.8.0
• numpy >= 1.26.0
• cryptography >= 42.0.2

Documentation

Check out the tutorial for more examples and the public API for more details.

Contributions

Contributions are welcome! Please follow the guidelines available in the repository.

Installation

From the Python Package Index

pip install pltfront

From the code repository

git clone https://framagit.org/codutils/pltfront.git
cd pltfront
make install

Author

Iacopo Ricci