Hello, I'm the author of DreamPie - a new graphical Python shell ( http://dreampie.sourceforge.net ). I worked to make it work nicely with matplotlib, but I would like to make it work even better. Currently, if you import matplotlib in DreamPie and it is in non-interactive mode, DreamPie suggests that you switch to interactive mode. After you do that, everything works fine, because I made DreamPie support handling events of Tkinter, GTK and QT when it's idle. I thought that it might be even nicer if DreamPie would automatically switch matplotlib to interactive mode when it's detected, instead of asking the user to find the right configuration file and edit it. I asked people at matplotlib-users for their opinion, and Eric Firing said that non-interactive mode is useful when running matplotlib scripts. I looked at http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/shell.html and saw that ipython's pylab mode provides a run command that runs a script in non-interactive mode. I wonder: could such a function be added to the pylab module? Then I think it would be fine if DreamPie automatically switched to interactive mode. (I can write this function if you like) Do you have any other suggestions on how to make DreamPie more matplotlib-friendly? Do you think that after these changes DreamPie can be recommended as a matplotlib-friendly shell? Thanks, Noam