I am a heavy user of jupyter notebook and, lately, I am running it using pypy instead of python to get extra speed. It works perfectly but I am missing matplotlib so much. Is there any decent 2D plotting library compatible with pypy and jupyter notebook? I don't need fancy stuff, scatter, line and bar plots would be more than enough.
Bokeh is working fairly good with pypy. The only problem I have encountered is linked to the use of numpy.datetime64
that is not yet supported by pypy. Fortunately it is enough to monkey-patch bokeh/core/properties.py
and bokeh/util/serialization.py
to pass in case of datetime64 reference.
I did it in this way:
bokeh/core/properties.py
...
try:
import numpy as np
datetime_types += (np.datetime64,)
except:
pass
...
and
bokeh/util/serialization.py
...
# Check for astype failures (putative Numpy < 1.7)
try:
dt2001 = np.datetime64('2001')
legacy_datetime64 = (dt2001.astype('int64') ==
dt2001.astype('datetime64[ms]').astype('int64'))
except:
legacy_datetime64 = False
pass
...
And managed to get nice looking plots in jupyter using pypy.