FYI, it is possible to call Matplotlib in an 'object-oriented' way without global state; though it's a bit more cumbersome than just using the pylab interface.

FYI, it is possible to call Matplotlib in an 'object-oriented' way without global state; though it's a bit more cumbersome than just using the pylab interface. See http://matplotlib.org/examples/pylab_examples/webapp_demo.html http://matplotlib.org/examples/pylab_examples/webapp_demo.ht... for an example.