[matplotlib-devel] Calling to those "embedding" matplotlib in applications

[Michael D. <md...@st...>]

I'm considering changing the behavior of the rcParam |interactive| 
(which also can be set through |matplotlib.interactive()| and 
|pyplot.ion()| and |pyplot.ioff()|). Currently, when setting 
|interactive| to |True|, running any sort of matplotlib plot as a script 
will fail to display a window. This can be very surprising if a user 
turns on |interactive| because they prefer its behavior in IPython, but 
are then surprised that none of their scripts continue to work. I 
propose to fix this by turning on |interactive| only when running at an 
interactive console.

See the pull request http://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/2286 
for an implementation.

I'm trying to rule out any negative impact of this change, and I would 
appreciate any feedback if this change will have a negative impact on 
your application.

Mike