Jonn-- Thanks very much. Customizing the backend to TkAgg solved the problem. Chloe--thanks for your advice as well!
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:21 PM, John Hunter <jdh2...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Ted Rosenbaum <ted.rosenb...@yale.edu> > wrote: > > Hi, > > I am a real newbie at matplotlib, so I apologize if this is an obvious > > question. > > I am running ipython in emacs and while the first time I use the show() > > command in the ipython buffer the graph shows up fine, subsequent times > that > > I call the command it, the graph does not show up. I am on ubuntu 10.04 > > (64) and I built the matplotlib library from source. > > I am trying to get the graphs to show up the subsequent times as well > (sorry > > for the pun). > > Thanks for any help. > > Take a look at > > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/shell.html > > It may help to configure your matplotlib backend to TkAgg. See > > > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/installing_faq.html#what-is-a-backend > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/customizing.html > > Also, you will probably want to figure out how to make emacs launch > ipython in pylab mode, in which case you won't need show at all. > ipython will take care of everything for you in pylab mode. > > JDH >
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