Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basic matshow question

[Nathan G. <nat...@gm...>]

You would use "%matplotlib inline" if you want the plots to show up inline
in the notebook.  If you want to use one of the gui backends, it would be
"%matplotlib <backend>".  More detail here:

http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/2/api/generated/IPython.core.magics.pylab.html#IPython.core.magics.pylab.PylabMagics.matplotlib

Pylab is going to be removed in IPython 3.0 (in fact it's already gone in
master) since it has several bad interactions with the rest of the
numpy/scipy universe and leads to un-reproducible code.  See this blog post
for more detail on why using pylab is a bad idea:

https://carreau.github.io/posts/10-No-PyLab-Thanks.ipynb.html


On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:19 AM, 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
>
>
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