Interactive matplotlib through Eclipse PyDev

Question

This is a follow up to this interactive matplolib through eclipse thread which is about 2 years old, I was wondering if there has been any progress in the meantime.

Answer 1

I achieve similar behave in Eclipse PyDev by executing plotting function in another thread:

import threading
from pylab import *
import matplotlib.animation as animation
import time

x = array(range(0,1000))/100
y = sin(x)

def updateData(self):
    ax.set_data(x,y)

def MyThread():
    global ax
    fig, axarr = subplots(1)
    ax, = axarr.plot(x,y)
    simulation = animation.FuncAnimation(fig, updateData)
    show()


t = threading.Thread(target=MyThread)
t.start()

# console stay active, user can interactively control figure
time.sleep(1)
y = sin(2*x)
time.sleep(2)
ax.get_axes().grid()
ax.get_axes().set_xlabel("time")

Tested with toolchain Eclipse 4.3, PyDev 2.7.1, Python 3.2, IPython 0.13