Re[2]: [Matplotlib-users] show()

[Alan G I. <ai...@am...>]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, John Hunter apparently wrote:
> But for classroom use, I suggest you just put "interactive
> : True" in your rc file and then you have no need for
> show.  Is there a downside to this approach?

I'm not sure.

There are two different classroom situations.

i. ad hoc drawing in the classroom from a Python shell.
Here setting interactive makes good sense, it seems.

ii. running prepared scripts for prepared graphical
illustrations.  Here I will usually have several
figures that I want displayed sequentially.
With interactive=False, this approach seems to work fine:
I close a figure and the next appears (TKAgg).
With interactive=True (and the show commands removed),
this approach seems to choke with an abnormal program termination:
Fatal Python Error: PyEval_RestoreThread: NULL tstate

Since I wish to do both, I decided I shd have
interactive:False
in my rc file.  Am I overlooking something?

Thanks,
Alan