Brian Hawthorne wrote: > Seems like it might be convenient for IPython to detect if matplotlib is > installed and if it is then to use pylab mode by default (unless > specified otherwise with a switch like -nopylab).
That's a bad idea. IPython has some magic, but it shouldn't be that magical. Just because a package is installed doesn't mean that the user wants it loaded every time with GUI threads and all of the other finicky stuff that comes along with -pylab. IPython is a general purpose tool, not a front end to matplotlib. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
