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

[Erik B. <eri...@gm...>]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:
> 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

It appears bpython does not set sys.ps1.  I wonder if this shouldn't
be considered a bug/oversight in bpython though.  If nothing else it
might be worth pointing out to its developers.  I also wonder how this
would impact IDEs (though I don't use any personally).

Erik