itermplot
Dev tools
terminal plotting
SHOW HN2017
160points
28comments
#236of 2,242 in 2017
Top 11%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
2 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score +0.19.
Idea: 2 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Commenters welcome a way to see matplotlib plots in a terminal
From 2 comments
You are literally making my dreams come true. Thank you!
venachescu on HNGreat idea, I was just thinking yesterday that something like this should exist. Matplotlob seems to like automatically switching windows every time you plot something, so…
Lxr on HN
Objections
Works only in iTerm2, not general terminals
From 1 comment
Gnuplot has an output mode - called "dumb" - that prints an ASCII plot to the terminal. See e.g. http://pastebin.com/WHcLZHPr This is very handy when running scientific codes on…
jpeanuts on HN
Adds a dependency rather than using existing tools like gnuplot
From 1 comment
Why wouldn't you use gnuplot? If you want a numpy interface, there's this: https://github.com/dkogan/gnuplotlib
dima55 on HN
Requests
Support for Linux terminals
From 2 comments
God, I want something like iTerm2 for Linux.
krick on HNiTerm2 is nice, but Linux has a zillion terminal emulators. I'm running images inside of urxvt right now using w3m. https://twitter.com/ethanschoonover/status/834227566848286720
Adaptive on HN
Questions
Is there a similar tool for R?
From 1 comment
Any idea of how to do something like this for R?
maddyboo on HN
Alternatives named
gnuplot dumb terminal output
From 1 comment
Gnuplot has an output mode - called "dumb" - that prints an ASCII plot to the terminal. See e.g. http://pastebin.com/WHcLZHPr This is very handy when running scientific codes on…
jpeanuts on HN
gnuplotlib
From 1 comment
Why wouldn't you use gnuplot? If you want a numpy interface, there's this: https://github.com/dkogan/gnuplotlib
dima55 on HN
bashplotlib
From 1 comment
It's not as complete as matplotlib, but there is an ASCII plotting library which has a (very) similar API to matplotlib called bashplotlib: https://github.com/glamp/bashplotlib
JosephRedfern on HN
matplotlib sixel backend
From 1 comment
Matplotlib has a "sixel" backend, which can render images in any terminal supporting the necessary protocol. Might be worth investigation, if you run or can run a terminal with…
throwanem on HN