is it possible to have an interactive session through pydev for using matplotlib? The problem is that I cannot get shell access to drive the charts as the interpretor halts after the show() command. I would like to have an interactive session through pydev.
Interactive sessions are well described by the matplotlib manual here: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/shell.html
However, no example is provided for doing this is eclipse.
I've not used pydev much, but IIRC you can change which interactive interpreter you use. If that's possible, install ipython and use it in pylab mode (ipython --pylab from the command line)
Turns out you can't change the interpreter. You can run interpreter commands so maybe it's possible to run an ipython shell that way, but it would be easier to just launch ipython --pylab from a terminal and run it along side your eclipse session.
HTH