Matplotlib: using a figure object to initialize a plot

Question

I am building a class of plot tools for a specific experiment. I currently have two plot methods, a static plot using imshow(), and a \"movie\" format also using imshow() .<

Answer 1

To show a plot you'll want to use fig.canvas.draw() where fig is an instance of the Figure class. fig.canvas.draw() is the API version of the interactive shell (read: pylab) function draw()

If you need to get the Axes or Figure from an AxesImage object you can call either im.get_axes() or im.get_figure(), respectively.

As far as writing "good" object-oriented code the user interface examples might be good place to start.