Python-3.4.3/C2/Saving-plots/English

Python/C2/Saving-Plots/English

Title of script: Saving-Plots

Author: Chandrika, Pravin, Vineeta Parmar, Thirumalesh H S

Keywords: IPython, savefig

Visual Cue	Narration
Show Slide “Saving Plots”	Hello Friends. Welcome to the tutorial on "Saving Plots".
Show Slide Objectives	At the end of this tutorial, you will be able to - Save plots using savefig() function. Save plots in different formats.
Show Slide System Requirements	To record this tutorial, I am using Ubuntu Linux 14.04 operating system Python 3.4.3 IPython 5.1.0
Show Slide Pre-requisites	To practise this tutorial, you should know how to - Use Plot Command Interactively If not, see the prerequisite Python tutorials on this website.
[Terminal] ipython3	Let us first open the Terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T keys simultaneously. Now, type ipython3 and press Enter.
[IPython console] %pylab and press Enter.	Let us initialise the pylab package Type %pylab and press Enter
Show Slide 'Creating a basic plot'	Let us plot a sine curve from minus 3 pi to 3 pi.
[IPython Terminal] x = linspace(-3*pi, 3*pi, 100)	First, we will calculate the required points for the plot. To do this Type, x = linspace(-3*pi comma 3*pi comma 100) in the console. Let us plot a sine curve for the points stored in variable x
[IPython Terminal] plot(x, sin(x))	Type plot(x comma sin(x)) in the console and press Enter. Don't close the plot window for rest of the tutorial.
[Plot Window]	As you can see we have made a very basic sine plot. Now let us see how to save the plot.
Show Slide savefig()	For saving the plot, we will use the savefig() function. Syntax: savefig(fname) savefig function takes one argument which is the filename.
[IPython Terminal] savefig('sine.png')	Type savefig('sine.png') and press Enter. This saves the file in present working directory. The characters after the dot in the filename is the extension. It determines the format in which you want to save.
[IPython Terminal] Type pwd and press Enter	To check current working directory, Type pwd in the console and press Enter
[IPython Terminal] Highlight the /home/fossee/ using mouse cursor	To save the file in different directory, type full path of the directory before the filename. Type savefig('slash home slash fossee slash sine.png')
	Note that above file path is for Linux based file systems. For windows based systems, type corresponding path. Example: if the username in windows is fossee, and sine.png is to be saved on Desktop Then filepath is - 'C:\\Users\\fossee\\Desktop\\sine.png'
[IPython Terminal] Highlight the .png part using mouse movements	Here we have used an extension dot png. This will ensure that the image is saved as a PNG file. Now let us locate the file sine.png which we had saved earlier.
[File browser] Open the browser, navigate to /home/fossee and highlight the file sine.png	We have saved the file to (slash)home(slash)fossee, Let us navigate to (slash)home(slash)fossee using the file browser.
[File browser] Open the file sine.png and show it for two-three seconds and then close it.	Open the sine.png file to see the plotted sine curve.
Show Slide More on savefig()	savefig can save the plot in many formats, such as pdf - portable document format, ps - post script, eps - encapsulated post script, to be used with LaTeX documents svg - scalable vector graphics, png - portable network graphics
Show Slide Exercise 1	Pause the video here, try out the following exercise and resume the video. Save the sine plot in the eps format. Let us see the output for this exercise
[Ipython Terminal] savefig('/home/fossee/sine.eps')	Type savefig('slash home slash fossee slash sine.eps') and press Enter.
[File Browser] Highlight the file sine.eps for 2 seconds and then double click and open the file	Now let us go to /home/fossee and see the new file created. <pause> We see the file sine.eps here.
Show Slide Exercise 2	Pause the video here, try out the following exercise and resume the video. Save the sine plot in PDF, PS and SVG formats.
Show Slide Summary slide	This brings us to the end of this tutorial. In this tutorial,we have learnt to, Save plots using the savefig() function. Save the plots in different formats like - pdf - ps - png - svg - eps
Show Slide Assignment	Here are some assignment questions for you to solve Which command is used to save a plot. saveplot() savefig() savefigure() saveplt() 2. savefig('sine.png')saves the plot in, The root directory '/' (on GNU/Linux, Unix based systems), 'C:\' (on windows) Will result in an error as full path is not specified. The current working directory. Predefined directory like “/documents.”
Show Slide Solutions	And the answers, To save a plot, we use the savefig() function. If we save a file without complete path, it gets saved in the current working directory.
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