Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basic matshow question

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

There is no change to the recommendations for interactive plots from the
console, if by console you mean the normal python REPL. There is no --pylab
for that. If you mean from the IPython console, then it is the cell magic I
mentioned previously.


On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Matthew Brett <mat...@gm...>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
> > I think it is mostly an issue with how IPython interfaces with
> matplotlib.
> > If you were running from a pure python prompt, then I would suspect it to
> > work (haven't tried myself, though). Note that the --pylab option to
> ipython
> > is now highly discouraged. Instead, I would try the "%matplotlib
> > interactive" cell magic instead (I think that is the right incantation).
>
> Sorry for being slightly off-topic, but what is the current
> recommendation then for interactive plots from the console, if --pylab
> is discouraged?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
>