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Interactive mode seems to be broken on MacOSX #7351

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@aholtzma

Based on the examples I expect that calling plt.ion() will turn on interactive mode so that plt.show() doesn't block. However when I call this the plot never shows up (the python app launches, but there is no window). Commenting out the ion() shows the plot and it blocks on show(). Am I doing something wrong, or is this just broken?

import time
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt

plt.figure()
plt.ion()
plt.plot(range(5))
plt.show()
while 1:
    time.sleep(1)

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2.7.10 (default, Oct 23 2015, 19:19:21) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.0.0 (clang-700.0.59.5)]
matplotlib-1.5.3-cp27-cp27m-macosx_10_6_intel.macosx_10_9_intel.macosx_10_9_x86_64.macosx_10_10_intel.macosx_10_10_x86_64.whl

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