Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to make matplotlib faster?

[Perry G. <pe...@st...>]

On Dec 13, 2004, at 2:57 PM, Ted Drain wrote:

> John,
> I think the push/pop functions are going to be fairly useful (ipush 
> and ipop??).  We're going to be writing a lot scripts (i.e. functions) 
> that generate plots for our users.  There is no way to tell inside the 
> script if it's going to be used by a user in interactive mode or by 
> another script (like a batch report generator).  Having push/pop would 
> let me do:
>
> def stdPlot( [inputs] ):
>    ipush( False )
>    try:
>       [ create plot ]
>    finally:
>       ipop()
>
> Of course it's pretty easy to roll your own but I think it would be 
> nice to have it in the standard set of commands.
>

Yes, this was exactly the kind of usage I was envisioning. In other 
words,
I don't care what mode the user is using, I want this to run in 
"noninteractive"
mode (according to its current meaning), but I don't want to screw up 
their
state.

Perry