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。

如果你想打开多个图形，同时保持它们全部打开，这段代码适合我:

show(block=False)
draw()

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。

下面是我找到的最简单的解决方案(线程阻塞代码)

plt.show(block=False) # this avoids blocking your thread

plt.pause(1) # comment this if you do not want a time delay

# do more stuff

plt.show(block=True) # this prevents the window from closing on you

Try

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([1,2,3])
plt.show(block=False)
# other code
# [...]

# Put
plt.show()
# at the very end of your script to make sure Python doesn't bail out
# before you finished examining.

show()文档说:

在非交互模式下，显示所有图形并阻塞直到图形关闭;在交互模式下，除非在从非交互模式切换到交互模式之前创建了图形，否则没有效果(不推荐)。在这种情况下，它会显示数字，但不会阻塞。 单个实验关键字参数block可以被设置为True或False以覆盖上面描述的阻塞行为。

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!