Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: pycha
Version: 0.7.0
Summary: A library for making charts with Python
Home-page: http://bitbucket.org/lgs/pycha/
Author: Lorenzo Gil Sanchez
Author-email: lorenzo.gil.sanchez@gmail.com
License: LGPL 3
Description: .. contents::
        
        =====
        PyCha
        =====
        
        Pycha is a very simple Python package for drawing charts using the great
        `Cairo <http://www.cairographics.org/>`_ library. Its goals are:
        
        * Lightweight
        * Simple to use
        * Nice looking with default values
        * Customization
        
        It won't try to draw any possible chart on earth but draw the most common ones
        nicely. There are some other options you may want to look at like
        `pyCairoChart <http://bettercom.de/de/pycairochart>`_.
        
        Pycha is based on `Plotr <http://solutoire.com/plotr/>`_ which is based on
        `PlotKit <http://www.liquidx.net/plotkit/>`_. Both libraries are written in
        JavaScript and are great for client web programming. I needed the same for the
        server side so that's the reason I ported Plotr to Python. Now we can deliver
        charts to people with JavaScript disabled or embed them in PDF reports.
        
        Pycha is distributed under the terms of the `GNU Lesser General Public License
        <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html>`_.
        
        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 <http://packages.python.org/pycha/release-notes.html>`_
        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!
        
        
        Changes
        =======
        
        0.7.0 (2012-04-07)
        ------------------
        - Radial Chart by Roberto Garcia Carvajal
        - Polygonal Chart by Roberto Garcia Carvajal
        - Ring Chart by Roberto Garcia Carvajal
        - Minor cleanups in the code
        
        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
        
Keywords: chart cairo
Platform: UNKNOWN
