Front Matter

Copyright © 2001-2005 Gerard Vermeulen

Copyright © 2000 Mark Colclough

PyQwt is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

PyQwt is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with PyQwt; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

In addition, as a special exception, Gerard Vermeulen gives permission to link PyQwt dynamically with commercial, non-commercial or educational versions of Qt, PyQt and sip, and distribute PyQwt in this form, provided that equally powerful versions of Qt, PyQt and sip have been released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

If PyQwt is dynamically linked with commercial, non-commercial or educational versions of Qt, PyQt and sip, PyQwt becomes a free plug-in for a non-free program.

Abstract:

PyQwt is a set of Python bindings for the Qwt C++ class library which extends the Qt framework with widgets for scientific, engineering and financial applications. It provides a widget to plot 2-dimensional data and various widgets to display and control bounded or unbounded floating point values.

The main features of PyQwt are: