Re: [Matplotlib-users] where did my plots go?

Hi Goyo,

>> That is correct.  If you have a call to show(), then the script should not
>> finish on their own until the windows are closed -- regardless of whether or
>> not "interactive" is True or False.  The "interactive" setting should only
>> dictate whether or not the script execution pauses or not at the call to
>> show().
> 
> Then the script is supposed to keep itself alive, after executing the
> last statment, until the plot windows are closed? Does not work that
> way for me (tkagg, qt4agg and gtk*) and I wouldn't expect that.

Yes, this is how things used to work on my mac (1 week ago).  After upgrade, no longer works this way.  Reverting to old compilation - still no longer works.

> BTW this may be better than using raw_input:
> 
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> plt.ion()
> plt.plot([1.6, 2.7])  # The plot windows shows up.
> # Do stuff, even user interaction, more plots, etc.
> # ...
> # Wait until all plot windows are closed.
> plt.ioff()
> plt.show()

This reproduces (as far as I can tell) the exact behavior I used to have.


Interesting to note.  If I have "interactive : True" in my matplotlibrc file, and then 

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# do everything I used to do
# including call functions that do other plots etc.

plt.ioff()
plt.show()

this also produces the above behavior (what used to work).


So, if I am in interactive mode, then matplotlibrc opens and closes the figures for me.  However, if after making all my plots, just before calling plt.show(), I turn off interactive mode, then the plots stay open.

This does not follow the logic I would expect - ie interactive means I would have to close the figures interactively.  But it gives the behavior I have come to expect.


Now back to my other problems (I'll start a new thread).


Cheers,

Andre