Solved - just discovered methods ion() and ioff() which do the job. JonBL wrote: > > I have a Python program which calls matplotlib's show() method to display > a plot, but control does not return to my program until I close the > displayed figure. I want control to immediately return to my program so > that I can display additional figures as well. > > The doco (matplotlib 1.1.1) for the show() method mentions an experimental > key word arg named 'block', that can be set to True or False. This looks > promising, but plt.show(block = False) raises type error "got an > unexpected keyword argument 'block'". A call to plt.show() works fine. The > method appears to accept no arguments. > > Can anyone suggest how to bypass the blocking behaviour of the show() > method? > > TIA, > Jon >
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