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

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

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Erik Bray <eri...@gm...> wrote:
> 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).
>

Apparently IDLE doesn't set sys.ps1 either:
http://bugs.python.org/issue13657  I know at least a few people who
use IDLE.... ;)

I feel like there has to be a better way to determine if an
interactive prompt is in use, though I'll admit nothing jumps
immediately to mind :/

Erik