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

[Min RK]

> On Jul 6, 2015, at 22:35, Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 6 July 2015 at 12:17, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I already have,
> 
> I see - when you try to import matplotlib.pyplot, it disables itself, does the import inside the finder, and then claims it knows nothing about it. I could see that leading to odd, implementation dependent behaviour if it ends up loading the module twice.

Yup, the way I do it is probably not the best. We can probably do a better job properly integrated into IPython (e.g. don't retrigger the import, just set the mpl backend, etc.). Alternatively, we can delay the IPython call with a callback.

-MinRK

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