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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is an issue I bugged several people / lists about previously, which has a solution. Thought I’d share it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am running the GNU Win32 native build of emacs (ver. 25.3), on Windows 7 (not a cygwin or X11 version). I’m one of those “emacs is an operating system” people, and like running Python shells within emacs. The problem was getting matplotlib
figures to work – the figure window would either say “not responding”, not render, freeze, or somehow misbehave.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Someone involved in the elpy package (for python on emacs) gave the following solution, which works for me using the TkAgg or Qt5Agg backends: use jupyter console instead of ipython. The whole thing is murky to me, but I thought that nowadays
ipython is the Python-specific “piece” / interface to jupyter console. Either way, it seems like jupyter console just gives me ipython, but apparently in a way that the event loop or whatever with figure windows is “happy”.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So Add this to your .emacs:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(setq python-shell-interpreter "jupyter"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> python-shell-interpreter-args "console --simple-prompt")<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(setq python-shell-completion-native-enable nil)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then M-x run-python, then pylab, then figure(1) etc. and it should work.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hope this helps more people use emacs as their Windows Python IDE.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dave<o:p></o:p></p>
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