I wonder if anyone has a good pattern they'd like to share for how to page through a lot of plots (mayavi.mlab or matplotlib or Chaco or whatever). I find myself in this situation a lot: I'm looking at a sequence of plots, one for each piece of data in a collection. I usually find myself writing a loop with a plot command followed by raw_input()so that I hit enter in the terminal window IPython session to move to the next item. I usually make this conditional so that I can process in batch without looking at the plots if I choose. This has the effect of producing a newline in the terminal every time I want to move on to the next plot, which is far from ideal, especially in the situation where I'm not printing anything else in that window. I figure there probably is a general way of solving this problem satisfactorily that I just haven't thought of, but any toolkit- specific ideas would be appreciated too. I'd rather avoid mucking with event-handlers since it would force control flow to depend on the plotting toolkit, removing the ability to just "turn off" plot-n-wait. Any thoughts? David