Matplotlib figure window freezes during interactive mode

[gujax]

Hi,
I work in interactive mode and using pyplot in the IDLE shell.
I tried this simple code

from pylab import *
ion()
plot([1,2,3])

A window pops up but freezes and nothing shows up except it says at the top - not Responding.

Therefore, I tried the following.
Set my backend to be Tkagg and then set the interactive mode to True

Again wrote the above code (without ion())
...but same thing. Figure window freezes.

I tried other backends but to no effect.

Otherwise plot works when not in interactive mode. However, everytime I have to close the figure window to proceed with my calculations. I really would like to have the plots open when I am calculating.
Please advice. Help is appreciated,
Thank you,
gujax

[efiring]

Interactive mode is not supported in idle; please try ipython instead.

[pelson]

Interactive mode is not supported in idle; please try ipython instead.

I think that is a fair statement to make, but when looking this up I didn't find this explicitly stated in the documentation. Would you agree, or have I missed something? If it isn't documented, then I think the action for this issue should be to explicitly state the lack of support for IDLE in our documentation (and point the way to ipython).

[gujax]

Thank you and as Phil mentions, I spent hours figuring this out, guided by
the doc pages on Matplotlib. An explicit mention would have saved lot of
trouble. Or else I am missing something, that perhaps there is a way to
configure other IDEs to plot interactively,
Gujax

On Wednesday, August 8, 2012, Phil Elson wrote:

Interactive mode is not supported in idle; please try ipython instead.

I think that is a fair statement to make, but when looking this up I
didn't find this explicitly stated in the documentation. Would you agree,
or have I missed something? If it isn't documented, then I think the action
for this issue should be to explicitly state the lack of support for IDLE
in our documentation (and point the way to ipython).

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[WeatherGod]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 7:08 AM, gujax notifications@github.com wrote:

Thank you and as Phil mentions, I spent hours figuring this out, guided by
the doc pages on Matplotlib. An explicit mention would have saved lot of
trouble. Or else I am missing something, that perhaps there is a way to
configure other IDEs to plot interactively,
Gujax

FWIW, we have now added a mention of this in the upcoming release for the
documentation.

Ben Root