Whether or not you can do multiple show()s depends on which backend you use.
For example, the Mac OS X native backend has no problems with the multiple
show()s in your example. Which backend were you using? While matplotlib does
not support multiple show()s in general, there may be a simple solution to get
that working for the backend you are using.
--Michiel.
--- On Wed, 8/19/09, Kim, Dae-Won <dwki...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Kim, Dae-Won <dwki...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] show() problem in Mac OS X 10.5.8
> To: "Ryan May" <rma...@gmail.com>
> Cc: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 2:48 PM
>
> The one 'preliminary' solution I found is using
> an interactive mode + raw_input.
> Here is and example,
>
> ion()
> plot([1,2,3,4,5])
> raw_input('Type Enter')
> clf()
>
>
> plot([1,2,3,4,5])
> raw_input('Type_Enter')
> clf()
> plot([1,2,3,4,5])
> show()
>
> With this approach, I can press the enter when I want to
> see next figure.
>
>
>
> Though It's not as convenient as 'multiple
> show()'..
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 1:57 PM,
> Kim, Dae-Won <dwki...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 1:02 PM,
> Ryan May <rma...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:55
> AM, coati <dwki...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> I have a problem with show() command in my macbook
> machine (Leopard 10.5.8).
>
> For example, if I run the script shown below
>
> (let assume it is saved as 'test.py', and I run a
> command 'python test.py'),
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------
>
>
>
> plot([1,2,3,4,5])
>
> show() #first window
>
> plot([1,2,3,4,5])
>
> show() #second window
>
> plot([1,2,3,4,5])
>
> show() #third window
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------
>
>
>
> Then the first window just pops up and I can see a
> beautiful straight line
>
> :) No problem so far.
>
> But, after I close the first window by clicking the close
> button of the
>
> window,
>
> other two window (second and third) just pops up and close
> themselves
>
> instantly
>
> even though I didn't click the close button...
>
> Also, the second and third plot is shown in the same
> window.
>
>
>
> I don't have such problem in my Ubuntu machine..
>
>
>
> Does anybody know reasons?
> show() actually handles starting the GUI mainloop, so you
> really shouldn't be calling it more than once from a
> script. Quite frankly, it's more amazing that it works
> on your Ubuntu macine. :) If you're wanting 3 separate
> windows, try:
>
>
>
>
>
>
> plot([1,2,3,4,5])
> figure()
> plot([1,2,3,4,5])
> figure()
> plot([1,2,3,4,5])
> show()
>
> Ryan
>
> --
> Ryan May
>
> Graduate Research Assistant
> School of Meteorology
> University of Oklahoma
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks Ryan,
>
> Hm.. it's a bit strange.. I just installed matplotlib
> at Ubuntu using the package manager :)
> And, another linux machines (red hat enterprise) can do
> this too. For the RHELs, I compiled matplotlib source code
> by myself.
>
>
>
>
>
> figure() works very well, but what I want to do is to check
> the plots one by one and thus
> I can exit the script at any time I want (because I usually
> have lots of figures to check and I don't want
> to pop up every of them at the same time..)
>
>
>
>
>
> Anyway, thank you very much!
>
>
>
>
>
>
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