On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 21:03, Jonathan Taylor <jonathan.tay...@utoronto.ca> wrote: > Wow... changing to TkAgg backend makes raw_input() just work. I > suppose this is because the Tk thread does not need the GIL to render? > Is there a downside to using TkAgg? I am also noticing that it is > much faster than GtkAgg.
If you want different backends than tkagg (that plays nice with interactive interpreters), you could try $ ipython -pylab that is able to identify the wanted backend and work correctly with it while keeping the interactive prompt available. Cheers, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users