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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"[Doc]: figure.show works beyond what is documented","articleBody":"### Documentation Link\n\nhttps://matplotlib.org/devdocs/api/figure_api.html?highlight=figure%20show#matplotlib.figure.Figure.show\n\n### Problem\n\n\r\nFrom the linked documentation\r\n\r\n\u003e Proper use cases for Figure.show include running this from a GUI application or an IPython shell.\r\n\u003e \r\n\u003e If you're running a pure python shell or executing a non-GUI python script, you should use `matplotlib.pyplot.show` instead, which takes care of managing the event loop for you.\r\n\r\nI have just checked, and `figure.show()` works ALSO in a pure python shell  (here it's 3.9, in Suse Tumbleweed).\n\n### Suggested improvement\n\nSpecify that after version 3.x (??) of the interpreter the event loop is managed also by a vanilla Python REPL.\n\n### Matplotlib Version\n\n3.5.1","author":{"url":"https://github.com/boffi","@type":"Person","name":"boffi"},"datePublished":"2022-01-09T12:27:54.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":4},"url":"https://github.com/22169/matplotlib/issues/22169"}