How to keep matplotlib from stealing focus?

Question

I'm looping through a bunch of images and need to enter a label in the terminal when each image is displayed, kind of like this:

for pic in pics:
  fig = plt.figure()
  plt.imshow(pic)
  lbl = input()
  ...
  plt.close(fig)

The issue is that the figure steals the focus, so instead of just typing I need to keep clicking on the terminal first, then typing. Can this be avoided?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 23 '20 at 22:04

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Try to switch backend from tk to qt
```
matplotlib.use("Qt5agg")
```
Or use your own pause or use animate function

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/45734500/12366487

answered Apr 23 '20 at 22:04

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How to keep matplotlib from stealing focus?

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