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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"plot won't show with plt.show(block=False)","articleBody":"In IPython environment, When I make plot using `plt.show(block=False)`, the plot won't show at all. And after the script is finished, if I press CTRL+D (to exit), then the plot will show up.\n- [x] Matplotlib version, Python version and Platform (Windows, OSX, Linux ...)\n  Matplotlib 1.5.1, Python 3.5.2, IPython 5.1.0, Ubuntu\n- [x] How did you install Matplotlib and Python (pip, anaconda, from source ...)\n  Miniconda\n- [ ] If possible please supply a [Short, Self Contained, Correct, Example](http://sscce.org/)\n    that demonstrates the issue i.e a small piece of code which reproduces the issue\n    and can be run with out any other (or as few as possible) external dependencies.\n- [ ] If this is an image generation bug attach a screenshot demonstrating the issue.\n- [ ] If this is a regression (Used to work in an earlier version of Matplotlib), please \n    note where it used to work.\n  It used to work well but I don't remember which version it was.\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/wenzao","@type":"Person","name":"wenzao"},"datePublished":"2016-08-25T21:55:11.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":4},"url":"https://github.com/6979/matplotlib/issues/6979"}