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README for Python Interface to PPlot
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Author        : Drew McCormack
Created       : 21/09/2003
Last Modified : 04/10/2003
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The Python interface to PPlot can be used to make plots with any 
of the drawing APIs supported (e.g. QT or Cocoa).

The Python interface to PPlot is built using the Python native 'distutils'.
You may also need to have installed SWIG (www.swig.org), which is available
for most platforms. If you do not have the wrapper file pplot_wrapper.cxx
you will need to generate it with SWIG. If you already have it, you 
can skip the SWIG phase of the build by editing setup.py, and commenting
out the relevant line.

One way to build the files needed to use the interface is to enter the 
following in the 'python' directory of the PPlot source tree:

python setup.py build

This will create a directory called 'build', with a subdirectory named
'lib.PLATFORM', where PLATFORM is the platform you are compiling on.
In this subdirectory, you should find the files 'pplot.py' and '_pplot.so'. 
If you move or copy these files to a directory included in the PYTHONPATH 
environment variable, you should be able to use the python interface to 
pplot by including

import pplot

in your python scripts.
