Re: [Matplotlib-users] plt.ion() doesn't enable interactive mode when ran as script on mac osx 10.8.5

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

On 2014/09/21, 6:07 AM, Petar Bakalov wrote:
> Using python 2.7.5 and matplotlib 1.4.0 on mac OSX 10.8.5.
>
> The output of the following snippet:
>
> |import  matplotlib.pyplotas  plt
> plt.ion()
> print  "Is interactive:?",  plt.isinteractive()
> |
>
> when ran from shell ($ python snippet.py) is:
>
> Is interactive? : 0
>
> i.e. interactive mode does not work.
>
> I think that this is not the expected behaviour. How can this be fixed?

This is under discussion here: 
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/3505

Eric


>
> The same code produces
>
> Is interactive? : 1
>
> (i.e. works fine) when ran in an interactive python terminal on the same
> machine.
>
> I installed python using brew and matplotlib using pip.
>
> Best regards,
> Petar
>
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