gnuplot vs Matplotlib

Question or problem about Python programming: I’ve started on a project graphing Tomcat logs using gnuplot-py, specifically correlating particular requests with memory allocation and garbage collection. What is the collective wisdom on gnuplot-py vs Matplotlib for Python graphing. Are there better graphing libraries out there I haven’t heard of?

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Functions Defined The core of extensible programming is defining functions. Python allows mandatory and optional arguments, keyword arguments, and even arbitrary argument lists.

Representing graphs (data structure) in Python

Question or problem about Python programming: How can one neatly represent a graph in Python? (Starting from scratch i.e. no libraries!)What data structure (e.g. dicts/tuples/dict(tuples)) will be fast but also memory efficient?One must be able to do various graph operations on it. As pointed out, the various graph representations might help. How does one go […]

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