I'm curious to hear experiences with matplotlib on 10.5, either PowerPC or Intel. Anyone know the best way to install it? What backends work well or not? Any tips for using Mac fonts ...

So, I'm testing/debugging my physics simulation framework by simulating a segway -- I thought it would be a good way to hammer on my python bindings and my threading ...

We use matplotlib for plotting in python. We also have to convert SymPy matrices to NumPy arrays prior to plotting. Therefore, we prefer to define vectors as NumPy arrays if we intend to just plot ...