[IPython-dev] rant: "%matplotlib inline"

[Wes Turner]

It's probably the wrong place to parametrize,
but would it be possible to just sbclass the
CPython 2/3 kernels?

e.g. CPython 2 (matplotlib), CPython3

Or would that encourage more incompatible notebooks
(without kernelspecs)?

On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 8:08 PM, William Stein <wstein at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks!
>
> (I've recorded this here for the record
>
>   https://github.com/sagemathinc/smc/issues/37
>
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Kyle Kelley <rgbkrk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > From afar, I'll also respond by just quoting Min:
> >
> >> "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."
> >
> > Just about every time.
> >
> > Related issue for it: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/6424
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 7:35 PM, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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 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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