Plots won't show up in qtconsole

Question

I have read tons of questions on this, but I am still baffled. I'm running Anaconda in Scientific Linux. I launche a console a type ipython qtconsole .

My script.py is something like

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10])
plt.show()

I type run script.py from the qtconsole, and the program just sits and does nothing. What am I doing wrong? I have been using the qtconsole for running my scripts, maybe it's better for really being interactive with and I should be running my scripts some other way?

Any general advice on workflow would be very helpful here. When should I use python script.py , when should I use ipython script.py , and when should I use the qtconsole, etc...?

Answer 1

This seems like a Magic Function problem

More specifically %matplotlib . %matplotlib inline will show it within the browser, or you can replace inline with whatever you feel better for your use.