Hi,
After switching over from the MacOSX backend to the GTKAgg backend, I
started notice a big change in drawing behavior.
Now I know that MacOSX is interactive all the time by [mis]design, so I
wasn't surprised that I would have to add draw() commands when
isinteractive()==False; however, when using the non-pyplot commands,
i.e. ax.plot() rather than plot(), I must use draw() to render the new
Line2D even when isinteractive()==True. This doesn't seem correct
behavior to me. A lot of drawing just can't be done by the pyplot
functions. You have to go to the axes functions.
This is inherent in the design. Pyplot functions are wrappers that do two things: call Axes methods on the current axes, and then call draw_if_interactive(). The rationale is that even when working interactively, one doesn't necessarily want to draw immediately every time a new Artist is created. So yes, working interactively with the OO interface requires frequent plt.draw() invocations, making it only semi-interactive.
On another, but related topic, I use ipython -pylab, and generally
develop by using the `run -i file.py` syntax. I have found what I think
is a bug where if I have a file that consists of:
>> file.py<<EOF
print isinteractive()
EOF
and I do
In [1]: isinteractive()
Out[1]: True
In [2]: run -i file.py
False
which means I either have to do ion() or draw() each time even for
pyplot commands. Is this a bug in ipython or matplotlib?
I think it is inherent in the -pylab mode of ipython, which is designed to run a script as if it were being run directly from the command line. To do that, it turns interactive mode off before running the script, and restores interactive mode to its original value afterwards. A script intended to produce a screen plot includes a show() command. Running such a script with ipython -pylab then leaves one or more plots with which one can interact directly or via the ipython command line--but in the latter case, if pyplot functions are not used, then draw() must be used for a redraw.
If you want the contents of the file to be executed exactly as if you had typed them in at the ipython command line, you can use the built-in execfile() function instead of the ipython %run magic.
The ipython %edit magic can also be used for this.
Eric
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On 05/22/2011 07:04 AM, Mike Kaufman wrote:
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