Can I use ChIPS and Matplotlib at the same time ![[New]](../imgs/new.gif)
Yes, it is possible to create Matplotlib plots within the ChIPS shell, or import both ChIPS and Matplotlib in the same Python session. As an example:
chips> chips ----------------------------------------- Welcome to ChIPS: CXC's Plotting Package ----------------------------------------- CIAO 4.11 ChIPS version 1 Wednesday, December 5, 2018 Python 3.5.4 (default, Sep 14 2018, 15:42:52) Type 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information IPython 6.5.0 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. Type '?' for help. IPython profile: chips chips In [1]: x = np.arange(-4, 4, 0.05) chips In [2]: y = np.sin(x) * np.cos(x / 3) chips In [3]: add_curve(x, y, ['symbol.style', 'none']) Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "atk-bridge" chips In [4]: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt chips In [5]: %matplotlib Using matplotlib backend: TkAgg chips In [6]: plt.plot(x, y) Out[6]: [<matplotlib.lines.Line2D at 0x7f4a73bb7828>] chips In [7]:
creates both
![[The curve plotted in ChIPS]](images/example-chips.png)
and
![[The curve plotted in Matplotlib]](images/example-mpl.png)
Please see the ChIPS to Matplotlib conversion guide for more information on how to use Matplotlib for your data visualization.