[IPython-dev] [EXTERNAL] rant: "%matplotlib inline"

[Thomas Kluyver]

On 6 July 2015 at 09:37, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think it should be IPython's responsibility to detect matplotlib's
> import and register the inline backend.


This seems reasonable, but looking at the docs, I realise I'm not actually
sure how to register a hook to fire after an import. There's plenty of
machinery for intercepting imports to provide a module in some other way,
but nothing obvious for detecting that an import has happened. PEP 369,
post import hooks, was withdrawn years ago.

I guess we'd need to override __import__(), but that feels rather wrong.

Thomas
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