[IPython-dev] rant: "%matplotlib inline"
MinRK
benjaminrk at gmail.com
Thu Jul 2 20:35:59 EDT 2015
I also enjoy that the three of us are all sitting next to each other,
writing separate responses to the same email. I think it's Thomas' turn,
now.
-MinRK
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 5:33 PM, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:
> We get this report plenty, too. The idea seems to be that we should use an
> importhook to make inline the default backend with IPython is running.
> There seems to be a question of whether such a hook should be in matplotlib
> or IPython, and each time we start the conversation, it wanders off to
> other topics before we resolve it well enough for a PR. Hopefully we can
> decide on an implementation next week at SciPy, and ship it.
>
> I have a sample import hook
> <https://github.com/minrk/profile_default/blob/master/startup/mplimporthook.py>
> that does exactly this in my startup files. I’m not 100% certain it’s the
> right thing to do, but I would be happy to see something like this in
> either IPython or matplotlib.
>
> -MinRK
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 5:16 PM, William Stein <wstein at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> <Rant>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just want to register my frustration that by far the most common
>> support request I get about IPython use in SageMathCloud is the
>> following: "To display the plot, I'm tried to pl.show(), and also
>> pl.savefig('test.png') as suggested by some answers online, but
>> neither did the job. What is the correct command?"
>>
>> The answer is "%matplotlib inline", and there is a stackoverflow
>> question here about it:
>>
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19410042/how-to-make-ipython-notebook-inline-matplotlib-graphics
>>
>> I'm aware that disallowing the `--pylab inline` option when starting
>> ipython on the command line was a choice that you made on purpose.
>>
>> No response required -- I'm just being a humble tech support person
>> watching out for users :-)
>>
>> </Rant>
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