I’m considering changing
the behavior of the rcParam interactive
(which also can be set through matplotlib.interactive()
and pyplot.ion()
and pyplot.ioff() ).
Currently, when setting interactive
to True ,
running any sort of matplotlib plot as a script will fail to
display a window. This can be very surprising if a user turns on
interactive
because they prefer its behavior in IPython, but are then
surprised that none of their scripts continue to work. I propose
to fix this by turning on interactive
only when running at an interactive console.
See the pull request http://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/2286
for an implementation.
I'm trying to rule out
any negative impact of this change, and I would appreciate any
feedback if this change will have a negative impact on your
application.
Mike