Michelle Mills Strout and Joseph J. Strout
We discuss a Python graphing package called Graphite. Graphite enables the easy creation of 2D and 3D scientific, engineering, and business graphs. At the time of this writing Graphite handles line/point plots and bar plots. Some graph types to be included are function plots, polar plots, parametric plots, pie plots, density plots, image plots, and mesh plots. Graphite produces output for formats such as PostScript, PDF, GIF, QuickDraw, Tk, and Windows by using the PIDDLE backend. This paper gives an introduction to Graphite.