Re: [Matplotlib-users] where did my plots go?

[Andre' Walker-L. <wal...@gm...>]

Hi All,

Sort of hijacking my own thread here.  I posted another issue yesterday or the day before, and this has caused me to find some bigger problems...


> Most likely, there was a change to your matplotlibrc file.  There is a setting in there for "interactive" and by default, it is set to False.  If you uncomment it and set it to True, you should get back the behavior you expected.  You can also explicitly set the interactive mode to True from your scripts with a "plt.ion()" call before loading your other modules.

I was having such problems with my setup (mac os 10.6.8, EPD 7.3[ python2.7 matplotlib 1.1.0]), I decided to completely wipe all my python installations in 

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/

I then re-installed EPD 7.3
I modified my matplotlibrc to 
backend      : TkAgg
interactive  : True

I have run with --verbose-helpful to verify that these options are used (at least at startup).
But my plots still vanish as soon as the script is done :`(  [that is me, a grown man, crying]

I see I can use matplotlib.pyplot.isinteractive() to see that interactive is true.
How can I print the rc param to check the backend?  I haven't found this on google or in the matplotlib userguide yet.


Also, any ideas?  I am pulling hair out since of course I am supposed to be doing analysis for a talk next monday.


Thanks,

Andre