Out of curiousity: Expected behavior of matplotlib?

[1kastner]

Out of curiousity: What is the expected behavior of matplotlib inside nbterm? Just a few simple lines like this:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([1, 2, 3], [1, 4, 9], 'rs')
plt.show()

Should they show up in a separate window (if X11 or similar is available)? Would it rather fit the philosophy if the plot was converted to ASCII art?

[davidbrochart]

It would be better if plots show up inside the notebook, either through an ASCII art back-end for matplotlib (like matascii) or a terminal that is able to show images, like in itermplot for iTerm2 or matplotlib-backend-kitty for kitty.
See also #30.

[bluss]

Even gnome-terminal is catching on, even if the procotols vary (they implement Sixel).

[davidbrochart]

You may want to checkout https://github.com/joouha/euporie, which supports matplotlib already.