Is it possible to plot in debug?

[akiross]

Hello and, first, thanks for web-pdb!

I was wondering if it is possible to have some integration/support for showing matplotlib plots directly in the browser. That would help a lot when debugging scientific applications, in which plots are extremely useful.
I know this could be a long shot, but I really think there is an empty spot for this kind of debugging.

Is it possible?

[romanvm]

I don't quite understand the scenario of using such feature, so could you explain a bit more?

[akiross]

Sure. For instance, I am often working on code that performs image transforms. Sometimes I need to inspect the images being produced, and to do that I need to save with `plt.imsave()`, connect to the remote machine, download the image and open it. Other times, I have to plot some values, then save the plot to an image and do the same. This is annoying and having a debugger which can show images and is aware of matplotlib would make me more productive.

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[romanvm]

Thank you for the explanation. I think it is possible to implement downloading file objects that exist in the current scope. But for that you will need to save your image or plot into an in-memory file object like io.BytesIO.