I'm thinking in particular of dictionaries or illuminated bibles being displayed on these stands, which are at least waist-high on a standing person, constructed of wood.  Is there a particular word for this, other than "book stand"?


Question: Howto bin series of float values into histogram in Python?
Answer: from pylab import *
data = []
inf = open('pulse_data.txt')
for line in inf:
    data.append(float(line))
inf.close()
#binning
B = 50
minv = min(data)
maxv = max(data)
bincounts = []
for i in range(B+1):
    bincounts.append(0)
for d in data:
    b = int((d - minv) / (maxv - minv) * B)
    bincounts[b] += 1
# plot histogram

plot(bincounts,'o')
show()