I am playing with some other commands to achieve updating on the same
figure, no luck yet.

I guess that is what you actually been trying to see? Update the
figure content without opening another one?

Gökhan



On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Christopher Barker
<chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote:
> Gökhan SEVER wrote:
>> You may add these two lines:
>>
>> fig = plt.figure()
>> fig.clear()
>
> I thought I'd tried that (at least I'd tries plt.clf() ), but indeed,
> that takes care of it. I'm a bit confused as to why that is necessary,
> but at least it's working for me.
>
> thanks,
> -Chris
>
>
>
>> It should give what you want to see.
>>
>> Gökhan
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Christopher Barker
>> <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote:
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> I'm sure this is documented somewhere, but I can't find it.
>>>
>>> I'm finally getting around to learning ipython, which is pathetic as it
>>> sure seems like a great tool.
>>>
>>> Anyway, I want to be able to have a simple script that does some
>>> plotting with MPL, and run it with python's "run". Then change the
>>> script and run again, and have the plot updated -- this does not seem to
>>> happen. It appears to work if I close th figure by clicking on the
>>> Window close button, then "run", but that's kind of a pain.
>>>
>>> What am I missing?
>>>
>>> example script:
>>>
>>>
>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>>> import numpy as np
>>>
>>> x = (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)
>>> y = (6,2,6,4,6,4,7,5)
>>>
>>> plt.plot(x, y)
>>> plt.grid('on')
>>> plt.show()
>>>
>>>
>>> the I want to be able to do:
>>>
>>>
>>> In [32]: run test_ipython.py
>>>
>>> get a plot, then change some of the numbers in the script and:
>>>
>>> In [33]: run test_ipython.py
>>>
>>> then get an updated plot.
>>>
>>> It's not doing that now.
>>>
>>>
>>> what am I missing?
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> -Chris
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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