Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basic matshow question

[Matthew B. <mat...@gm...>]

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:26 AM, 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

I personally use the IPython console for my just-checking interactive
work, rather than the notebook.

Checking now, '%matplotlib inline' in the console raises an error,
understandably enough, but this works:

%matplotlib osx
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot(range(10))

I know that's what you said, it's just to give a complete snippet for Googlers,

Cheers,

Matthew