Your screenshots---WOW! I installed matplotlib 0.80 (from
Thanks!
> 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
Run ipython in pylab mode
> ipython -pylab
You then do not need to import pylab (ipython does this for you) and
you do not, indeed must not, use show.
See
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/interactive.html
and
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq.html#SHOW
Have fun...
JDH