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This toolkit ships with matplotlib, but requires <a class="reference external" href="http://www.pygtk.org/">pygtk</a>.</p> </div> <div class="section" id="excel-tools"> <span id="toolkit-excel"></span><h2>Excel Tools<a class="headerlink" href="#excel-tools" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>mpl_toolkits.exceltools provides some utilities for working with Excel. This toolkit ships with matplotlib, but requires <a class="reference external" href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlwt">xlwt</a></p> </div> <div class="section" id="natgrid"> <span id="toolkit-natgrid"></span><h2>Natgrid<a class="headerlink" href="#natgrid" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>mpl_toolkits.natgrid is an interface to natgrid C library for gridding irregularly spaced data. This requires a separate installation of the natgrid toolkit from the sourceforge <a class="reference external" href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80706&package_id=142792">download</a> page.</p> </div> <div class="section" id="mplot3d"> <span id="toolkit-mplot3d"></span><h2>mplot3d<a class="headerlink" href="#mplot3d" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>mpl_toolkits.mplot3d provides some basic 3D plotting (scatter, surf, line, mesh) tools. Not the fastest or feature complete 3D library out there, but ships with matplotlib and thus may be a lighter weight solution for some use cases.</p> <p>See <a class="reference internal" href="mplot3d/index.html#toolkit-mplot3d-index"><em>mplot3d</em></a> for more documentation and examples.</p> </div> <div class="section" id="axesgrid"> <span id="toolkit-axes-grid"></span><h2>AxesGrid<a class="headerlink" href="#axesgrid" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>The matplotlib AxesGrid toolkit is a collection of helper classes to ease displaying multiple images in matplotlib. The AxesGrid toolkit is distributed with matplotlib source.</p> <img alt="../_images/demo_axes_grid.png" src="../_images/demo_axes_grid.png" /> <p>See <a class="reference internal" href="axes_grid/index.html#toolkit-axesgrid-index"><em>Matplotlib AxesGrid Toolkit</em></a> for documentations.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> </div> <div class="related"> <h3>Navigation</h3> <ul> <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px"> <a href="../genindex.html" title="General Index" >index</a></li> <li class="right" > <a href="../py-modindex.html" title="Python Module Index" >modules</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="../api/index.html" title="The Matplotlib API" >next</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="../devel/outline.html" title="Docs outline" >previous</a> |</li> <li><a href="../index.html">home</a>| </li> <li><a href="../search.html">search</a>| </li> <li><a href="../examples/index.html">examples</a>| </li> <li><a href="../gallery.html">gallery</a>| </li> <li><a href="../contents.html">docs</a> »</li> </ul> </div> <div class="footer"> © Copyright 2008, John Hunter, Darren Dale, Michael Droettboom. 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