Only turn on interactive mode if in a console.

mdboom · mdboom · commit 9fbd29fa9f41 · 2013-09-03T15:27:13.000-04:00
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/__init__.py b/lib/matplotlib/__init__.py
@@ -1170,7 +1170,7 @@ def interactive(b):
 
 def is_interactive():
     'Return true if plot mode is interactive'
-    b = rcParams['interactive']
+    b = rcParams['interactive'] and hasattr(sys, 'ps1')
     return b
 
 def tk_window_focus():
@@ -1277,6 +1277,6 @@ def test(verbosity=1):
 
 verbose.report('matplotlib version %s'%__version__)
 verbose.report('verbose.level %s'%verbose.level)
-verbose.report('interactive is %s'%rcParams['interactive'])
+verbose.report('interactive is %s'%is_interactive())
 verbose.report('platform is %s'%sys.platform)
 verbose.report('loaded modules: %s'%six.iterkeys(sys.modules), 'debug')
