hist without plotting

[Nick Matzke]

Hi,

Is there a way to run the numpy hist function or something similar and
get the outputs (bins, bar heights) without actually producing the plot
on the screen?

(R has a plot = false option, something like this is what I'm looking
for...)

Cheers!
Nick


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[Peter Otten]

Is there a way to run the numpy hist function or something similar and
get the outputs (bins, bar heights) without actually producing the plot
on the screen?

(R has a plot = false option, something like this is what I'm looking
for...)

First hit googling for numpy hist led me to

http://www.scipy.org/Tentative_NumPy_Tutorial#head-aa75ec76530ff51a2e98071adb7224a4b793519e

So pylab.hist() plots and numpy.histogram() just calculates.

Peter