Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basic matshow question

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

right, thank you, it is "inline", not "interactive". I really need a memory
upgrade...

Cheers!
Ben Root


On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nat...@gm...>
wrote:

> 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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