Re: [Matplotlib-users] IDLE, matplotlib and show command

[Darren D. <dd...@co...>]

On Thursday 21 December 2006 5:04 am, Giorgio Luciano wrote:
> I've searched a bit in the FAQ, since in the last days I'm struggling
> with the show and close command.
> I've got a function that calculate values to plot. I calculate plot, use
> show command and everything goes fine.
> I close the figure recalculate values and then replot and everything
> freezes because the show command seems still active.
> I've tried to start IDLE using -n option but no solution. the plots
> freezes and I loose all calculations, and then I have to restart. reload
> etc..
> I tried also to turn interactive off but no way of solving.
>
> I'm using WIN XP
> python 2.5
> numpy 1.01
> scipy 0.52
> matplotlib 0.87.7
>
> and I don't want to come back to matlab :) Since in matlab it's very
> common to calculate something, recalculate, plot etc. etc.

Try setting interactive : True in your matplotlibrc file, and restart your 
idle -n session. Then you shouldn't even need to use the show() command, the 
behavior will be very similar to matlab.

Darren