在我的系统上，show()没有阻塞，尽管我希望脚本在继续之前等待用户与图形交互(并使用'pick_event'回调来收集数据)。

为了阻止执行直到绘图窗口关闭，我使用了以下方法:

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1)
ax.plot(x,y)

# set processing to continue when window closed
def onclose(event):
    fig.canvas.stop_event_loop()
fig.canvas.mpl_connect('close_event', onclose)

fig.show() # this call does not block on my system
fig.canvas.start_event_loop_default() # block here until window closed

# continue with further processing, perhaps using result from callbacks

但是请注意，canvas.start_event_loop_default()产生了以下警告:

C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\backend_bases.py:2051: DeprecationWarning: Using default event loop until function specific to this GUI is implemented
  warnings.warn(str,DeprecationWarning)

尽管脚本仍然在运行。

嗯，我在搞清楚非阻塞命令方面遇到了很大的困难……但最后，我成功地重做了“Cookbook/Matplotlib/Animations -动画选定的绘图元素”的例子，所以它可以在Ubuntu 10.04的Python 2.6.5上与线程一起工作(并通过全局变量或多进程管道在线程之间传递数据)。

脚本可以在这里找到:Animating_selected_plot_elements-thread.py -否则粘贴在下面(注释更少)以供参考:

import sys
import gtk, gobject
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('GTKAgg')
import pylab as p
import numpy as nx 
import time

import threading 



ax = p.subplot(111)
canvas = ax.figure.canvas

# for profiling
tstart = time.time()

# create the initial line
x = nx.arange(0,2*nx.pi,0.01)
line, = ax.plot(x, nx.sin(x), animated=True)

# save the clean slate background -- everything but the animated line
# is drawn and saved in the pixel buffer background
background = canvas.copy_from_bbox(ax.bbox)


# just a plain global var to pass data (from main, to plot update thread)
global mypass

# http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html#pipes-and-queues
from multiprocessing import Pipe
global pipe1main, pipe1upd
pipe1main, pipe1upd = Pipe()


# the kind of processing we might want to do in a main() function,
# will now be done in a "main thread" - so it can run in
# parallel with gobject.idle_add(update_line)
def threadMainTest():
    global mypass
    global runthread
    global pipe1main

    print "tt"

    interncount = 1

    while runthread: 
        mypass += 1
        if mypass > 100: # start "speeding up" animation, only after 100 counts have passed
            interncount *= 1.03
        pipe1main.send(interncount)
        time.sleep(0.01)
    return


# main plot / GUI update
def update_line(*args):
    global mypass
    global t0
    global runthread
    global pipe1upd

    if not runthread:
        return False 

    if pipe1upd.poll(): # check first if there is anything to receive
        myinterncount = pipe1upd.recv()

    update_line.cnt = mypass

    # restore the clean slate background
    canvas.restore_region(background)
    # update the data
    line.set_ydata(nx.sin(x+(update_line.cnt+myinterncount)/10.0))
    # just draw the animated artist
    ax.draw_artist(line)
    # just redraw the axes rectangle
    canvas.blit(ax.bbox)

    if update_line.cnt>=500:
        # print the timing info and quit
        print 'FPS:' , update_line.cnt/(time.time()-tstart)

        runthread=0
        t0.join(1)   
        print "exiting"
        sys.exit(0)

    return True



global runthread

update_line.cnt = 0
mypass = 0

runthread=1

gobject.idle_add(update_line)

global t0
t0 = threading.Thread(target=threadMainTest)
t0.start() 

# start the graphics update thread
p.show()

print "out" # will never print - show() blocks indefinitely! 

希望这能帮助到一些人， 干杯!

在我看来，这个帖子中的答案提供的方法并不适用于每个系统和更复杂的情况，如动画。我建议在下面的帖子中看看MiKTeX的答案，在那里找到了一个健壮的方法: 如何等待matplotlib动画结束?

重要提示:只是为了澄清一些事情。我假设命令在.py脚本中，脚本是使用python script.py从控制台调用的。

对我来说，一个简单的方法是:

使用block = False在里面显示:plt。show(block = False) 在.py脚本的末尾使用另一个show()。

script.py文件示例:

plt.imshow(*something*)                                                               
plt.colorbar()                                                                             
plt.xlabel("true ")                                                                   
plt.ylabel("predicted ")                                                              
plt.title(" the matrix")  

# Add block = False                                           
plt.show(block = False)

################################
# OTHER CALCULATIONS AND CODE HERE ! ! !
################################

# the next command is the last line of my script
plt.show()

如果你在控制台工作，即IPython，你可以使用plt.show(block=False)，正如在其他答案中指出的那样。但如果你很懒，你可以输入:

plt.show(0)

这是一样的。

在我的例子中，我希望在计算窗口时弹出几个窗口。作为参考，方法如下:

from matplotlib.pyplot import draw, figure, show
f1, f2 = figure(), figure()
af1 = f1.add_subplot(111)
af2 = f2.add_subplot(111)
af1.plot([1,2,3])
af2.plot([6,5,4])
draw() 
print 'continuing computation'
show()

一个非常有用的matplotlib的OO接口指南。