PyX — Example: graphstyles/errorbar.py
Combining several graph styles
from pyx import * g = graph.graphxy(width=8) g.plot(graph.data.file("errorbar.dat", x=1, y=2, dy=3), [graph.style.symbol(), graph.style.errorbar()]) g.writeEPSfile("errorbar") g.writePDFfile("errorbar") g.writeSVGfile("errorbar")
Description
In this example several graph styles are applied one after the other to stroke symbols and errorbars for the given data. This can be achieved by passing a list of graph styles as the second parameter to the graph style.
When you do set the second argument in the graphs plot command, default graph styles are used to plot the data. The default for the graph styles depend is a property of the data instance passed in the first argument of the plot command. While the list and file data instances use a graph.style.symbol instance by default, for functions and parametric functions a graph.style.line instance is used.
The style instances parse the column names for appropriate entries to generate the corresponding output. In this case, the x and y values are used by both, the symbol and the errorbar style, whereas dy is used by the errorbar style only.
You could also provide data for ymin and ymax to the errorbar style instead of dy. The errorbar style can also draw errorbars in x-direction using dx or xmin and xmax. You can add errorbars in both graph directions at the same time.
The x and y data is not used by the symbol style nor the errorbar style directly (except for calculating the minimal and maximal value in y-direction by the errorbar due to the parametrization by y and dy). Instead a positioning style is inserted implicitly (a instance of graph.style.pos) as a position information is needed by the symbol and errorbar styles. By that the styles don't need to perform certain operations several times. Additionally the styles can also be used on graphs, which behave different in their positioning properties like bar graphs where you can use the same styles by just using a different positioning style.