Usage from Python

Install the pluot Python package from PyPI.

pip install pluot

View example notebooks

Static plotting

Use the render_to_array and render_to_image functions to render static plots in raster format. The former returns a Numpy array, while the latter returns a PIL.Image object.

When used in a Jupyter notebook, the returned PIL.Image object will be displayed as an image output of the notebook cell.

Async runtime

Since the plotting function is async, it must be called from a Python async runtime. Code executed in Jupyter notebooks is already running in an async runtime, so await render_to_image will "just work".

However, in other contexts, be careful to ensure render_to_image is await-ed within an async runtime. For instance, to use within a REPL, run python -m asyncio.