Hi Ryan, Ryan May wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Esmail <ebo...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> Ryan May wrote: >>> Try this: >>> >>> >> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/animation/simple_anim_gtk.html >>> (If not gtk, there are other examples there.) >> Thanks Ryan, that'll give me some idea with regard to the animation, >> and real-time drawings. >> >> Any idea if it's possible to finish a Python program but still have the >> graph showing? >> >> FWIW, I'm doing this under Linux. >> > > You'd have to run the plotting in a separate process from the computation. > subprocess would let you do that, assuming you can spin off a child task > that stays alive when the parent exits. You'd also need to get the > computing process to give new results to the child plot, maybe using a pipe > (which I think subprocess can handle as well.)
This is exactly what I have tried/described in [1], using the multiprocessing module. It sort of works, but I have that hanging problem at the end - maybe somebody jumps in and helps this time :) r. [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg10873.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
