<chapter id="python">
  <title>Using PLplot from Python</title>
  <para>
Documentation for the PLplot Python binding goes here.
  </para>
</chapter>

<chapter id="python">
  <title>Using PLplot from Python</title>
  <para>
  NEEDS DOCUMENTATION, but here is the short story.  We currently (February,
2001) have
switched to dynamic loading of plplot following the generic method given
in the python documentation.  Most (???) of the PLplot common API
has been implemented.  (For a complete list see plmodules.c and plmodules2.c).
With this dynamic method all the xw??.py examples
work fine and should be consulted for the best way to use PLplot from python.
You may have to set PYTHONPATH to the path where plmodule.so is located
(or eventually installed).  For more information see examples/python/README
</para>

<para>
pytkdemo and the x??.py examples it loads use the plframe widget.  Thus,
this method does not currently work under
dynamic loading.  They have only worked in the past using the static method
with much hacking and rebuilding of python itself.  We plan to try dynamic
loading of all of PLplot (not just the plmodule.c and plmodule2.c wrappers)
including plframe (or a python-variant of this widget) into python at some
future date to see whether it is possible to get pytkdemo and the
x??.py examples working
under dynamic loading, but only the individual stand-alone xw??.py demos
work at the moment.
</para>

</chapter> 

Add some meat to this chapter that at least points to the working demos as a stopgap measure. Later should be done right.
Add some meat to this chapter that at least points to the working demos
as a stopgap measure.
Later should be done right.

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