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Andreas Tille writes:
> I'd like to obtain the output from GnuPlot as string rather than as
> file or in a xterm for further processing with PIL or to foreward
> the resulting output to Zope.

What about having gnuplot write the output to a temporary file and
then read the file?  If you are under Unix, you could even have
gnuplot write the output to a fifo (named pipe) and read it directly
into your program.

I don't think there is a way to get at the string any other way.  One
could change Gnuplot.py to read gnuplot's standard output, but I'm not
sure that output would only have the pure graphics.  If you want to
pursue this, you would probably want to do it by providing your own
substitute GnuplotProcess object.

Michael

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Michael Haggerty
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Hello,

I'd like to obtain the output from GnuPlot as string rather than as
file or in a xterm for further processing with PIL or to foreward
the resulting output to Zope.

If output is not set gnuplot forewards it to stdout and I'm seeking for
a way to grab this into any variable (string, PIL.Image or whatever) to
do further processing with it.

Kind regards

         Andreas.