Reads from a file called p, uses 10000 bins, filters out values < -10000. Sets a range of -10000 to 3500000, max value of 20.
#!/usr/bin/env python
import numpy as np
import matplotlib as mpl
import matplotlib.mlab as mlab
mpl.use(‘Agg’)
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
inp = open ("p","r")
x = []
for line in inp.readlines():
if int(line) > -10000:
x.append(int(line))
print x
# the histogram of the data
n, bins, patches = plt.hist(x, 10000, normed=0, facecolor=’green’)
print bins
print n
# add a ‘best fit’ line
#y = mlab.normpdf( bins, mu, sigma)
#l = plt.plot(bins, y, ‘r–’, linewidth=1)
plt.xlabel(‘Position’)
plt.ylabel(‘Population’)
plt.title(‘My data’)
#plt.axis([-10000,3500000, 0, 20])
plt.grid(True)
plt.savefig(‘histogram.png’)