Show HN: Plot directly in your terminal with matplotlib

Gnuplot has an output mode - called &quot;dumb&quot; - that prints an ASCII plot to the terminal. See e.g. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;WHcLZHPr" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;WHcLZHPr</a> This is very handy when running scientific codes on remote machines, and works in any terminal (not just iTerm2 like the submission).<p>I&#x27;ve been looking for a matplotlib extension to do the same thing, without success.

God, I want something like iTerm2 for Linux.

You are literally making my dreams come true. Thank you!

Julia has something similar too. TerminalExtensions.jl<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;groups.google.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;m&#x2F;#!topic&#x2F;julia-users&#x2F;zj4nQlDGNoc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;groups.google.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;m&#x2F;#!topic&#x2F;julia-users&#x2F;zj4nQl...</a>

Great idea, I was just thinking yesterday that something like this should exist. Matplotlob seems to like automatically switching windows every time you plot something, so annoying!

Any idea of how to do something like this for R?

Reminds me of Maple, it came with a console version that can render plots in ASCII.