https://github.com/matplotlib/mpl-gui

Prototype for mpl-gui module
https://github.com/matplotlib/mpl-gui

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Prototype for mpl-gui module

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/matplotlib/mpl-gui
• Owner: matplotlib
• License: bsd-3-clause
• Created: 2021-04-17T00:14:33.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-12-01T22:11:34.000Z (12 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-14T01:46:25.787Z (7 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://matplotlib.org/mpl-gui
• Size: 1.63 MB
• Stars: 13
• Watchers: 9
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 3
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.rst
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.rst
  • License: LICENSE
  • Authors: AUTHORS.rst

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mpl-gui

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Prototype project for splitting pyplot in half

* Free software: 3-clause BSD license

* Documentation: https://matplotlib.github.io/mpl-gui.

Motivation

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This project is a prototype space for overhauling the GUI event loop management

tools that Matplotlib provides in pyplot.

The pyplot module current serves two critical, but unrelated functions:

1. provide a state-full implicit API that rhymes / was inspired by MATLAB

2. provide the management of interaction between Matplotlib and the GUI event

   loop

While it can be very convenient when working at the prompt, the state-full API

can lead to brittle code that depends on the global state in confusing ways,

particularly when used in library code.  On the other hand,

``matplotlib.pyplot`` does a very good job of hiding from the user the fact

that they are developing a GUI application and handling, along with IPython,

many of the details involved in running a GUI application in parallel with

Python.