Your screenshots---WOW!
I installed matplotlib 0.80 (from source). Now the screenshots are on
my computer. But I can't interact with them. As soon as I enter show()
the plot appears in both python and ipython and then the prompt
disappears. If I type, for example, xlabel('Year') and ylabel('Number
of geeky science fiction desktop backgrounds') nothing happens. (I can
use the GUI controls on the plot.)
Eventually I enter control-c in ipython and get
$ python2.3-ipython
Python 2.3.5 (#2, May 4 2005, 08:51:39)
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
IPython 0.6.13 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
? -> Introduction to IPython's features.
%magic -> Information about IPython's 'magic' % functions.
help -> Python's own help system.
object? -> Details about 'object'. ?object also works, ?? prints more.
In [1]: from pylab import *
In [2]: plot([1,2,3,4])
Out[2]: [<matplotlib.lines.Line2D instance at 0x405cfe6c>]
In [3]: show()
xlabel('Year')
ylabel('Number of geeky science fiction desktop backgrounds')
···
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
exceptions.KeyboardInterrupt Traceback (most
recent call last)
/home/me/<console>
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_gtk.py in
show(mainloop)
85
86 if mainloop and gtk.main_level() == 0:
---> 87 gtk.main()
88
89
KeyboardInterrupt:
In [4]: