Just curious. What are the pros and cons of chaco vs matplotlib?
You had to go and ask, didn’t you? 🙂 There are many more folks here who have used MPL more extensively than myself, so I’ll defer the comparisons to them. (Gael, as always, thanks for your comments and feedback!) I can comment, however, on the key goals of Chaco. Chaco is a plotting toolkit targeted towards developers for building interactive visualizations. You hook up pieces to build a plot that is then easy to inspect, interact with, add configuration UIs for (using Traits UI), etc. The layout of plot areas, the multiplicity and types of renderers within those windows, the appearance and locations of axes, etc. are all completely configurable since these are all first-class objects participating in a visual canvas. They can all receive mouse and keyboard events, and it’s easy to subclass them (or attach tools to them) to achieve new kinds of behavior. We’ve tried to make all the plot renderers adhere to a standard interface, so that tools and interactors can easily inspect data and
