Chaco |release|
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Chaco is a Python package for building interactive and custom 2-D plots and
visualizations.
Chaco facilitates writing
plotting applications at all levels of complexity, from simple scripts with
hard-coded data to large plotting programs with complex data interrelationships
and a multitude of interactive tools. While Chaco generates attractive static
plots for publication and presentation, it also works well for interactive
data visualization and exploration.
Chaco is part of the `Enthought Tool Suite <http://code.enthought.com/>`_.

Chaco includes renderers for many popular plot types, built-in implementations of
common interactions with those plots, and a framework for extending and
customizing plots and interactions.  Chaco can also render graphics in a
non-interactive fashion to images, in either raster or vector formats, and it
has a subpackage for doing command-line plotting or simple scripting.

For a quick sample of Chaco's features, see the
`gallery <http://code.enthought.com/projects/chaco/gallery.php>`_, the
:ref:`annotated examples <examples>` page, the
:ref:`tutorial and examples <tutorials>`
and the :ref:`resources <resources>` page.



Documentation
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.. toctree::
  :maxdepth: 1

  Installation and quickstart guide <quickstart.rst>
  user_manual/tutorials_and_examples.rst
  user_manual/index.rst
  user_manual/resources.rst
  programmers_reference.rst
  tech_notes.rst

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