[IPython-User] redirecting plot to separate notebook

[Zoltán Vörös]

Hi All,

My question might be completely stupid, but in the worst case, you'll 
just have a long laugh, and we can move on.

What I would like to know is whether it is possible to redirect only the 
plots from one notebook to another. The problem I want to solve is the 
following. Computer monitors, and laptop monitors in particular, tend to 
be wider than tall, and on the other hand, python statements are usually 
short, and a line that is longer than 80 characters is considered bad 
practice anyway. The upshot is that one cannot really utilize the full 
width of the screen, but if you do plotting in a session, then you will 
always have to scroll between the plot and the code. I was wondering 
then whether one could do the coding in one notebook, and plot into 
another. I could very  well do with a half-width screen, as far as 
coding is concerned. Some browsers even let you split the window, so 
everything could be side by side. However, after a quick search, I could 
not find anything pointing in this direction.

Of course, one could use standard plots, and open newer and newer 
windows, if you have multiple plots, but that is not the real thing. 
First, it clutters the screen, and second, the plots won't have a 
structure to them, and if you want to save them, you have to save them 
one by one.

In any case, if this scheme is doable, is there some information on how 
one would set out to do this?

Cheers,
Zoltán