``svg.charts`` - Package for generating SVG Charts in Python

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Status and License

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``svg.charts`` is a pure-python library for generating charts and graphs

in SVG, originally based on the SVG::Graph Ruby package by Sean E. Russel.



``svg.charts`` supercedes ``svg_charts`` 1.1 and 1.2.



``svg.charts`` is written by Jason R. Coombs.  It is licensed under an

`MIT-style permissive license

<https://py-svg.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/py-svg/trunk/docs/license.txt>`_.



You can install it with ``easy_install svg.charts``, or from the

`subversion repository

<https://py-svg.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/py-svg/trunk#egg=svg.charts-dev>`_ with

``easy_install svg.charts==dev``.



Acknowledgements

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``svg.charts`` depends heavily on lxml and cssutils. Thanks to the

contributors of those projects for stable, performant, standards-based

packages.



Sean E. Russel for creating the SVG::Graph Ruby package from which this

Python port was originally derived.



Leo Lapworth for creating the SVG::TT::Graph package which the Ruby

port was based on.



Stephen Morgan for creating the TT template and SVG.



Getting Started

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``svg.charts`` has some examples (taken directly from the reference implementation)

in `tests/testing.py <https://py-svg.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/py-svg/trunk/tests/testing.py>`_.

These examples show sample usage of the various chart types. They should provide a

good starting point for learning the usage of the library.



An example of using ``svg.charts`` in a `CherryPy

<http://www.cherrypy.org/>`_ web app can be found in `jaraco.site.charts

<https://svn.jaraco.com/jaraco/python/jaraco.site/trunk/jaraco/site/charts.py>`_.

If the site is working, you can see the `rendered output here

<http://www.jaraco.com/charts/plot>`_.



Upgrade Notes

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Upgrading from 1.x to 2.0



I suggest removing SVG 1.0 from the python installation.  This involves removing the SVG directory (or svg_chart*) from site-packages.



Change import statements to import from the new namespace.



from SVG import Bar

Bar.VerticalBar(...)

becomes

from svg.charts.bar import VerticalBar

VerticalBar(...)



More To-Dos

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-  Documentation! This package desperately needs some high-level,

   tutorial-style how-tos, and not just links to example code.

-  Implement javascript-based animation (See JellyGraph for a Silverlight example of what simple animation can do for a charting library).



Reporting Bugs and Getting Help

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This project is `hosted at sourceforge

<https://sourceforge.net/projects/py-svg/>`_. Please use that site for

reporting bugs and requesting help. Patches are also welcome.



Changes

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2.0.5

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* Altered the way CSS files are loaded, so they can be more easily

  customized by subclasses (and less dependent on the class names).



2.0.4

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* A small attempt to improve the documentation - added links to examples

  that already exist.



2.0.3

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* Fix IndexError in ``svg.charts.plot.Plot.field_size`` when there are

  only two values returned by float_range (in the case there are only

  two different 'y' values in the data) and scale_y_integers == True.

  Credit to `Jean Schurger <http://schurger.org/>`_ for the patch.

* Fixed problem in setup.py installing on Unix OS (case sensitivity of 

  readme.txt). Credit to Luke Miller and Jean Schurger for supplying

  a patch for this issue.



2.0.2

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* Updated cssutils dependency to 0.9.6 (currently in beta) to require the CSS profiles support.

* Completed an SVG CSS profile according to the SVG 1.1 spec.



2.0.1

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* Added preliminary SVG CSS profile, suitable for stock CSS properties.



2.0

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* First major divergence from the Ruby reference implementation

* Now implemented as a namespace package (svg.charts instead of svg_charts)

* Changed XML processor to lxml

* Enabled extensible css support using cssutils, greatly reducing static CSS

* Renamed modules and methods to be more consistent with PEP-8 naming convention



1.2

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* Bug fixes



1.1

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* First public release