Is there a better interactive plotter then pylab?

[Charles Krug]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:56:07 -0500, John Hunter
<jdhunter at ace.bsd.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Krug <cdkrug at worldnet.att.net> writes:
> 
>    Charles> List: I'm trying to us pylab to see what I'm doing with
>    Charles> some DSP algorithms, in case my posts about convolution
>    Charles> and ffts weren't giving it away.
> 
>    Charles> I've been using pylab's plot function, but I'm finding it
>    Charles> a bit cumbersome.
> 
>    Charles> It works, but if I switch from the interactive window to
>    Charles> the plot window and back, the plot window gets trashed.
> 
>    Charles> Is there a better alternative for interactive use?
> 
> You are probably not using pylab interactive mode properly.
> matplotlib has several GUI backends (gtk, tk, qt, etc...).  Most GUIs
> take control with their mainloop and prevent further interaction.
>>From what you describe, I'm pretty sure you haven't setup your
> configuration properly for interactive use.  Fortunately, there are a
> couple of solutions.
> 
> For the standard python shell, you need to use the TkAgg backend.
> Tkinter is the only python GUI that plays nicely with the standard
> python shell.  You will need to set "backend : TkAgg" and 
> "interactive : True" in the matplotlib rc file.  See
> http://matplotlib.sf.net/interactive.html for details and
> http://matplotlib.sf.net/.matplotlibrc for information on the
> configuration file.
> 

Those are already set.  I'm taking a look at ipython now.