pycha 0.6.0

Documentation

You can find Pycha’s documentation at http://packages.python.org/pycha

Development

You can get the last bleeding edge version of pycha by getting a clone of the Mercurial repository:

hg clone https://bitbucket.org/lgs/pycha

Don’t forget to check the Release Notes for each version to learn the new features and incompatible changes.

Contact

There is a mailing list about PyCha at http://groups.google.com/group/pycha You can join it to ask questions about its use or simply to talk about its development. Your ideas and feedback are greatly appreciated!

0.6.0 (2010-12-31)

• Buildout support

• Documentation revamped

• Debug improvements

• Autopadding

• Make the unicode strings used in labels safer

0.5.3 (2010-03-29)

• New title color option

• Fix crash in chavier application

• New horizontal axis lines. Options to turn it (and vertical ones) on and off

• Improve precision in axis ticks

• Add some examples and update old ones

0.5.2 (2009-09-26)

• Add a MANIFEST.in to explictly include all files in the source distribution

0.5.1 (2009-09-19)

• Several bug fixes (Lorenzo)

• Draw circles instead of lines for scatter chart symbols (Lorenzo)

• Error bars (Yang Zhang)

• Improve tick labels (Simon)

• Add labels with yvals next to the bars (Simon (Vsevolod) Ilyushchenko)

• Change the project website (Lorenzo)

0.5.0 (2009-03-22)

• Bar chart fixes (Adam)

• Support for custon fonts in the ticks (Ged)

• Support for an ‘interval’ option (Nicolas)

• New color scheme system (Lorenzo)

• Stacked bar charts support (Lorenzo)

0.4.2 (2009-02-15)

• Much better documentation (Adam)

• Fixes integer division when computing xscale (Laurent)

• Fix for a broken example (Lorenzo)

• Use labelFontSize when rendering the axis (Adam Przywecki)

• Code cleanups. Now it should pass pyflakes and pep8 in most files (Lorenzo)

• Support for running the test suite with python setup.py test (Lorenzo)

• Support for SVG (and PDF, Postscript, Win32, Quartz) by changing the way we compute the surface dimensions (Lorenzo)

0.4.1 (2008-10-29)

• Fix a colon in the README.txt file (Lorenzo)

• Add a test_suite option to setup.py so we can run the tests before deployment (Lorenzo)

0.4.0 (2008-10-28)

• Improved test suite (Lorenzo, Nicolas)

• Many bugs fixed (Lorenzo, Stephane Wirtel)

• Support for negative values in the datasets (Nicolas, Lorenzo)

• Chavier, a simple pygtk application for playing with Pycha charts (Lorenzo)

• Allow the legend to be placed relative to the right and bottom of the canvas (Nicolas Evrard)

• Easier debugging by adding __str__ methods to aux classes (rectangle, point, area, …) (Lorenzo)

• Do not overlap Y axis label when ticks label are not rotated (John Eikenberry)

0.3.0 (2008-03-22)

• Scattered charts (Tamas Nepusz <ntamas_AT_rmki.kfki.hu>)

• Chart titles (John Eikenberry <jae_AT_zhar.net>)

• Axis labels and rotated ticks (John)

• Chart background and surface background (John)

• Automatically augment the light in large color schemes (John)

• Lots of bug fixes (John and Lorenzo)

0.2.0 (2007-10-25)

• Test suite

• Python 2.4 compatibility (patch by Miguel Hernandez)

• API docs

• Small fixes

0.1.0 (2007-10-17)

• Initial release