The intended audience of IPython and DreamPie is, I think, quite similar. Perhaps DreamPie is more suitable for less computer-savvy people, as it is a GUI application and not a terminal-based one.
I've seen that "ipython --pylab" goes to interactive mode by default, and has a %run command which runs scripts in non-interactive mode. Will a behavior like this be fine? Thanks, Noam On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote: > > On 09/02/2010 07:47 PM, Noam Yorav-Raphael wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm the developer of DreamPie, a new graphical Python shell (you can > > check it out at http://dreampie.sourceforge.net ) > > > > I worked to make it work nicely with matplotlib -- it runs Tk/GTK/Qt > > event loops when idle, so if matplotlib is in interactive mode it > > works great. I even made DreamPie check if matplotlib in > > non-interactive mode is present, and if so it shows you a message > > suggesting that you switch to interactive mode. > > > > Lately I thought that it may be much easier for users if DreamPie > > would just switch matplotlib to interactive mode automatically. > > However, I'm not entirely comfortable with the idea of changing > > settings silently. > > > > I wanted to ask: what do you think? Are there any cases when you want > > to have matplotlib in non-interactive mode in a shell? > > At least with ipython, yes--the point of non-interactive mode is that > the show() function blocks, so it can be used in scripts in which the > user is supposed to see a plot, dismiss the window, see another plot, > etc. Again, at least with ipython, one wants to be *able* to run scripts > exactly as they would run from the command line. > > Whether this sort of thing matters for DreamPie depends on the intended > uses and users. > > Eric > > > > > Also, are there any other ways in which DreamPie can be made more > > matplotlib-friendly? > > > > Thanks, > > Noam > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: > > > > Show off your parallel programming skills. > > Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd > > _______________________________________________ > > Matplotlib-users mailing list > > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: > > Show off your parallel programming skills. > Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
