Re: [Gnuplot-py-users] Obtaining Gnuplot output as string

On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Michael Haggerty wrote:

> 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 fiddled around something with mkfifo but failed to read it correctly.
Seems there is some magic to do with threads or someting else because
reading from the pipe fails completely.

> 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.
Any hint how to do that?

Kind regards

        Andreas.