This chapter marks the beginning of our transition into specialized topics. While we will continue making references to the preceding overview, the subsequent chapters will focus on taking you deeper into the domain of advanced matplotlib usage.
In this chapter, we will delve into matplotlib events and interactive plots and cover the following topics:
A general overview of event-based systems
The anatomy of an event loop
The GUI toolkit event loop basics
Event loops in IPython and matplotlib
Event handling in matplotlib
Events for mouse, keyboard, axes, figures, and picking
Compound events
The material presented here will be pulled from matplotlib's artist and backend layers, and it should provide a nice starting point for the vast world of user interaction in data visualization.
To follow along with this chapter's code, clone the notebook's repository and start up IPython by using the following code:
$ git clone https://github.com/masteringmatplotlib...