Re: [matplotlib-devel] pyplot commands appear to ignore interactive status

[Mike K. <mc...@gm...>]

On 2/7/11 10:30 PM, Benjamin Root wrote:
>
> The behavior in gtk and other backends is the designed/intended
> behavior.  macosx backend is actually the odd-man out because it was
> coded to only work in one of those modes.
>
> Maybe we should emit a warning when macosx backend is used when
> interactive=False in order to dispel misunderstanding?

possibly, but maybe adding a blurb about OSX, and maybe the blocking 
behavior to the documentation here: 
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/shell.html and maybe to the 
dostrings of ion(), ioff() would be good.

M