Python has nice features (object-oriented, cross-platform… metaprogramming, metaobjects; it can be used with NEURON and with software for medical imaging).
Major implementations of Python are: CPython, IronPython, Jython, MicroPython, PyPy. IPython is a good programming environment (created by Fernando Perez, a Colombian physicist). Both gnuplot and matplotlib can produce many types of different plots.
Having many tools, OSs and programming environments, it is hard to determine what can be the best one in order to plot in a MATLAB-style.
Thank you in advance if you can give some suggestions about any one of these questions:
1. What is the best tool for plotting in Python (in a MATLAB-style) and how to download it?
2. What can be the most accepted tool for scientific journals (e.g. computational Neuroscience, Neuroimaging)?
Matplotlib is certainly the most commonly used in my experience, and it comes as standard inside most of the "scientific" (aka matlab like) environments, e.g. Anaconda.
To keep things simple, I would just use Anaconda, which comes with the Spyder IDE, and all the usual scientific Python libraries (Numpy, SciPy and of course, matplotlib).
Journals don't care what software you generate the figure in, they only care how you supply it to them. You can send it in a raster version, usually as a TIFF, or as a vector version, usually a EPS or PDF file. Personally, I make the complete figure (as opposed to the individual graphs) in Adobe Illustrator, though I dare say you could try your hand with Inkscape, if you like to keep things free/open source.
Thank you very much to Dr-Professors {William M Connelly and Imane Haykal} for their useful answers. I will re-read them as soon as I finish some other issues and perhaps comeback to this site. For now, I highly appreciate your help. Thanks again!
Dear Juan Fernando,
Definetly matplotlib. Instructions for different systems and a gallery can be found in
http://matplotlib.org/
Thank you very much Dr-Prof Marco Arieli for your answer! I highly appreciate it! It gives me more information!
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