Re: [Matplotlib-users] Integrating plots with existing PyGTK application

[Alan G I. <ai...@am...>]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, John Hunter apparently wrote:
> you should not be using pylab, since you are embedding mpl in a 
> GTK GUI. 

Given the frequency of this question, maybe it would be 
a good idea on the main project page
<URL:http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/>
to augment the text

        The plotting functions in the pylab interface have 
        a high degree of Matlab® compatibility.

to include a caveat:

        The plotting functions in the pylab interface have 
        a high degree of Matlab® compatibility.  (These are
        suitable for plotting scripts but NOT for GUI 
        embeddding, which should use the matplotlib API.)

fwiw,
Alan Isaac