\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\title{Interactive Plotting}

\author{FOSSEE}

\usepackage{listings}

\lstset{language=Python,

    basicstyle=\ttfamily,

commentstyle=\itshape\bfseries

}

\newcommand{\typ}[1]{\lstinline{#1}}

\usepackage[english]{babel}

\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

\usepackage{times}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage{ae,aecompl}

\usepackage{mathpazo,courier,euler}

\usepackage[scaled=.95]{helvet}

\begin{document}

\date{}

\vspace{-1in}

\begin{center}

\LARGE{Interactive Plotting}\\

\large{FOSSEE}

\end{center}

\section{Starting up...}

\begin{lstlisting}

  $ ipython -pylab  

\end{lstlisting}

Exiting 

\begin{lstlisting}     

In [2]: (Ctrl-D)^D

Do you really want to exit ([y]/n)? y

\section{Plotting}

  \begin{lstlisting}

In [1]: x = linspace(0, 2*pi, 50)

In [2]: plot(x, sin(x))

In [3]: xlabel('x')

In [4]: ylabel('sin(x)')

In [5]: title('Sinusoids')

In [6]: legend(['sin(y)'])

In [7]: legend(['sin(2y)'], loc = 'center')

# loc = 'upper right', 'upper left', 'lower left, 'lower right', 'center left',

#      'center right', 'lower center', 'upper center', 'best', 'right', 'center'

In [8]: legend(['sin(2y)'], loc = (.8, .1))

In [9]: savefig('sin.png')   # Save figure

In [10]: close()             # Closes the figure

In [11]: clf()               # Clears the Plot area

In [12]: plot(y, sin(y), 'g')

# Colors can be: 'b', 'g', 'r', 'c', 'm', 'y', 'k', 'w'

In [13]: plot(y, cos(y), 'r', linewidth=2)

In [14]: legend(['x', '-x'])

In [15]: annotate('origin', xy=(0, 0))

In [16]: xmin, xman = xlim()           # Without arguments gets

In [17]: ymin, ymax = ylim()           # values

In [18]: xlim(0, 2 * pi)               # With values, sets the

In [19]: ylim(ymin - 0.2, ymax + 0.2)  # specified values

  \end{lstlisting}

\section{Saving and running scripts}

\begin{itemize}

  \item \typ{\%hist}

  \item \typ{\%save four\_plot.py 16 18-27}

  \item \typ{\%run -i four\_plot.py}

\end{itemize}

\end{document}