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Chaco is a Python package for building interactive and custom 2-D plots.

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Forks: 97
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 141

Dominant language: Python
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Last GitHub push: Oct 20, 2025
Latest indexed: Sep 15, 2026
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141 issues indexed so far

Some tests fail on macOS with the wx backend Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

enthought/chaco#919 · Opened Aug 30, 2025
chaco.downsample test_linear fail on macOS Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

enthought/chaco#918 · Opened Aug 23, 2025
Missing f-string in logger warning Open

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enthought/chaco#912 · Opened Apr 22, 2024
DataView/Plot `bgcolor` can't be tuple Open

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enthought/chaco#907 · Opened May 17, 2023
Better handling of "Dark Mode" Open

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enthought/chaco#899 · Opened May 12, 2023
NotImplementedError when running examples/demo/updating_plot/updating_plot1.py Open

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enthought/chaco#896 · 1 comment · Opened May 11, 2023
ValueError: object of too small depth for desired array when running chaco/chaco/examples/demo/advanced/scalar_image_function_inspector.py Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

enthought/chaco#890 · 1 comment · Opened May 2, 2023
file not found for capitol.jpg when running examples/user_guide/plot_types/create_plot_snapshots.py Open

enthought/chaco#879 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 3, 2023
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for &: 'int' and 'KeyboardModifier' when running multiple tests on python 3.11 or 3.8 not using the EDM environment when running python chaco/examples/demo/multiaxis_using_Plot.py Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

enthought/chaco#863 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 27, 2023
Verify all examples work with Python 3.11 Open

enthought/chaco#860 · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 13, 2023
ScatterPlot example currently shows marker_size takes integer arrays Open

enthought/chaco#846 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 13, 2022
Choco on windows, Python38, example does not work Open

enthought/chaco#831 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 10, 2022
Bug in RangeSelection Open

type: bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

enthought/chaco#822 · Opened Nov 15, 2021
`TextBoxOverlay` incorrectly overrides `Component.padding` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

enthought/chaco#820 · Opened Oct 21, 2021
Unreadably small plot axis labels on Dell XPS-15 laptop running Windows 10 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

enthought/chaco#819 · 13 comments · Opened Oct 20, 2021
What plot types is Chaco missing that are available in other Python plotting libraries? Open

needs investigation

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

enthought/chaco#814 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 30, 2021
New plot type - Violin plot Open

difficulty: advanced type: enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

enthought/chaco#813 · Opened Jul 30, 2021
Fill in TODO sections of documentation Open

component: documentation

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

enthought/chaco#806 · Opened Jul 1, 2021
issue with RectangularSelection Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

enthought/chaco#800 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 22, 2021
Rework / Refactor Tools Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

enthought/chaco#799 · Opened Jun 21, 2021
Reorganize Tools Open

discussion

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enthought/chaco#798 · Opened Jun 21, 2021
Investigate use of both overlay and _draw_overlay in AbstractOverlays Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

enthought/chaco#767 · Opened Jun 8, 2021
scalar_image_function_inspector.py needs a refactor Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

enthought/chaco#763 · Opened Jun 7, 2021
Use literalinclude in docs if code exists in an example Open

component: documentation

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

enthought/chaco#762 · Opened Jun 7, 2021
Decide fate of examples Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

enthought/chaco#761 · Opened Jun 7, 2021
Deal with chaco.example_support Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

enthought/chaco#760 · Opened Jun 7, 2021
data_cube example todo Open

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enthought/chaco#759 · Opened Jun 7, 2021
What to do with map_data_array Open

discussion

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

enthought/chaco#727 · Opened May 4, 2021
Setting Colorbar's title Open

component: demos question

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

enthought/chaco#720 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 27, 2021
Avoid importing from enable.example_support in examples Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

enthought/chaco#715 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 22, 2021
Make SvgRangeSelectionOverlay not inherit from StatusLayer Open

type: refactor

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

enthought/chaco#707 · Opened Apr 21, 2021
Remove Regular Polygon Generation Code Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

enthought/chaco#701 · Opened Apr 20, 2021
Audit and Pin down return types of methods across chaco Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

enthought/chaco#662 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 13, 2021
Replace traits find_resource with importlib.resources in examples Open

component: documentation type: cleanup

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

enthought/chaco#657 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 13, 2021
Document best practices for using chaco Open

component: documentation

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

enthought/chaco#627 · Opened Apr 6, 2021
Move or remove misc files sitting in docs Open

component: documentation

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

enthought/chaco#621 · Opened Apr 5, 2021
Consider updating `super` usage Open

type: cleanup

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

enthought/chaco#616 · Opened Apr 5, 2021
Remove uses of x.0 or x. used to force float division Open

type: cleanup

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

enthought/chaco#610 · Opened Apr 5, 2021
Reorganize the scipy2008 tutorials in the context of other examples Open

component: demos

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

enthought/chaco#606 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 5, 2021
Remove thing_changed Event traits if possible Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

enthought/chaco#604 · Opened Apr 2, 2021
Clarify / Remove use of metadata, metadata_changed, etc traits Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

enthought/chaco#596 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 2, 2021
Look for places to use new requires_redraw metadata Open

type: enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

enthought/chaco#595 · Opened Apr 2, 2021
Documentation Issue List Open

component: documentation

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

enthought/chaco#587 · Opened Mar 30, 2021
ImagePlot interpolation will need to change if/when celiagg is adopted by Enable Open

ETS Backlog type: refactor

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

enthought/chaco#584 · Opened Mar 26, 2021
DataLabel (ToolTip) object is not honoring the `auto_adjust` parameter Open

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enthought/chaco#563 · Opened Feb 4, 2021
monkey patch on event handler Open

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enthought/chaco#562 · Opened Jan 28, 2021
Setting tick_interval with CalendarScaleSystem Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

enthought/chaco#560 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 18, 2021
Better control over Scale formatting Open

type: enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

enthought/chaco#551 · Opened Dec 23, 2020
AbstractPlotRenderers return different array shapes when passing a single point to map_screen Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

enthought/chaco#550 · 5 comments · Opened Dec 21, 2020
Many plots missing _render_icon method Open

type: bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

enthought/chaco#549 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 16, 2020

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