OO style matplotlib?

[bennettbrowniowa]

First, WOW! I love Pythonista already! Thank you to creators and contributors!

I am using matplotlib and prefer to use the OO style of coding as described <a href="http://matplotlib.org/1.3.1/faq/usage_faq.html">here</a>. In other Python environments, I have no difficulty doing this, but in Pythonista the script

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fig, ax = plt.subplots(1, 1)
ax.plot(1, 1, 'ro')
fig.show()

produces the error "UserWarning: matplotlib is currently using a non-GUI backend, so cannot show the figure."

I tried adding plt.ioff() to the script, since Pythonista documentation does warn that matplotlib GUIs will not implement interactive behavior, but it still does not produce the plot. I am able to produce the expected plot using plt.plot(1, 1, 'ro'). The <a href="http://omz-software.com/pythonista/docs/matplotlib/faq/usage_faq.html"> Pythonista mirror of matplotlib's documentation </a> seems to suggest I can use the OO style to code with matplotlib.

Is it possible to use the OO interface to matplotlib with Pythonista? If so, how?

[omz]

Thanks for the feedback. You can work around this limitation by saving the plot to an image first, and showing that (the non-OO show() does pretty much the same internally):

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import Image

fig, ax = plt.subplots(1, 1)
ax.plot(1, 1, 'ro')

fig.savefig('mpl_out.png')
Image.open('mpl_out.png').show()