如果你想要绘制而不是在绘制更多点时冻结线程，你应该使用plt.pause()而不是time.sleep()

我使用下面的代码来绘制一系列的xy坐标。

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt 
import math


pi = 3.14159

fig, ax = plt.subplots()

x = []
y = []

def PointsInCircum(r,n=20):
    circle = [(math.cos(2*pi/n*x)*r,math.sin(2*pi/n*x)*r) for x in xrange(0,n+1)]
    return circle

circle_list = PointsInCircum(3, 50)

for t in range(len(circle_list)):
    if t == 0:
        points, = ax.plot(x, y, marker='o', linestyle='--')
        ax.set_xlim(-4, 4) 
        ax.set_ylim(-4, 4) 
    else:
        x_coord, y_coord = circle_list.pop()
        x.append(x_coord)
        y.append(y_coord)
        points.set_data(x, y)
    plt.pause(0.01)

实时绘制CPU使用情况的示例用例。

import time
import psutil
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)

i = 0
x, y = [], []

while True:
    x.append(i)
    y.append(psutil.cpu_percent())

    ax.plot(x, y, color='b')

    fig.canvas.draw()

    ax.set_xlim(left=max(0, i - 50), right=i + 50)
    fig.show()
    plt.pause(0.05)
    i += 1

如果您对实时绘图感兴趣，我建议您查看matplotlib的动画API。特别是，使用blit来避免在每一帧上重画背景可以给你带来实质性的速度增益(~10倍):

#!/usr/bin/env python

import numpy as np
import time
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('GTKAgg')
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt


def randomwalk(dims=(256, 256), n=20, sigma=5, alpha=0.95, seed=1):
    """ A simple random walk with memory """

    r, c = dims
    gen = np.random.RandomState(seed)
    pos = gen.rand(2, n) * ((r,), (c,))
    old_delta = gen.randn(2, n) * sigma

    while True:
        delta = (1. - alpha) * gen.randn(2, n) * sigma + alpha * old_delta
        pos += delta
        for ii in xrange(n):
            if not (0. <= pos[0, ii] < r):
                pos[0, ii] = abs(pos[0, ii] % r)
            if not (0. <= pos[1, ii] < c):
                pos[1, ii] = abs(pos[1, ii] % c)
        old_delta = delta
        yield pos


def run(niter=1000, doblit=True):
    """
    Display the simulation using matplotlib, optionally using blit for speed
    """

    fig, ax = plt.subplots(1, 1)
    ax.set_aspect('equal')
    ax.set_xlim(0, 255)
    ax.set_ylim(0, 255)
    ax.hold(True)
    rw = randomwalk()
    x, y = rw.next()

    plt.show(False)
    plt.draw()

    if doblit:
        # cache the background
        background = fig.canvas.copy_from_bbox(ax.bbox)

    points = ax.plot(x, y, 'o')[0]
    tic = time.time()

    for ii in xrange(niter):

        # update the xy data
        x, y = rw.next()
        points.set_data(x, y)

        if doblit:
            # restore background
            fig.canvas.restore_region(background)

            # redraw just the points
            ax.draw_artist(points)

            # fill in the axes rectangle
            fig.canvas.blit(ax.bbox)

        else:
            # redraw everything
            fig.canvas.draw()

    plt.close(fig)
    print "Blit = %s, average FPS: %.2f" % (
        str(doblit), niter / (time.time() - tic))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    run(doblit=False)
    run(doblit=True)

输出:

Blit = False, average FPS: 54.37
Blit = True, average FPS: 438.27

带有保留线条风格的圆形缓冲区的活动情节:

import os
import time
import psutil
import collections

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

pts_n = 100
x = collections.deque(maxlen=pts_n)
y = collections.deque(maxlen=pts_n)
(line, ) = plt.plot(x, y, linestyle="--")

my_process = psutil.Process(os.getpid())
t_start = time.time()
while True:
    x.append(time.time() - t_start)
    y.append(my_process.cpu_percent())

    line.set_xdata(x)
    line.set_ydata(y)
    plt.gca().relim()
    plt.gca().autoscale_view()
    plt.pause(0.1)

这是我要在我的系统上工作的一个版本。

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from drawnow import drawnow
import numpy as np

def makeFig():
    plt.scatter(xList,yList) # I think you meant this

plt.ion() # enable interactivity
fig=plt.figure() # make a figure

xList=list()
yList=list()

for i in np.arange(50):
    y=np.random.random()
    xList.append(i)
    yList.append(y)
    drawnow(makeFig)
    #makeFig()      The drawnow(makeFig) command can be replaced
    #plt.draw()     with makeFig(); plt.draw()
    plt.pause(0.001)

drawnow(makeFig)行可以用makeFig()代替;plt.draw()序列，它仍然可以正常工作。

问题似乎是您希望plot .show()显示窗口，然后返回。它不会那样做。程序将在此时停止，只有在您关闭该窗口后才恢复。您应该能够测试这一点:如果您关闭窗口，然后另一个窗口将弹出。

要解决这个问题，只需在循环之后调用一次plt.show()。然后你就得到了完整的情节。(但不是“实时绘图”)

你可以尝试像这样设置关键字参数块:plt.show(block=False)在开始时，然后使用.draw()来更新。