Inline plots do not seem to be working in my current configuration. Maybe a version thing?
Python 3.2.3
matplotlib 1.2.0
IPython 0.13.1
PTVS 1.5

From: Dino
It looks like IPython is giving is a string which is failing to decode. If you open visualstudio_ipython_repl.py (it’s where PTVS is installed) and modify write_data to add the 2 green lines:

def write_data(self, data, execution_count = None):

    output_png = data.get('image/png', None)
    if output_png is not None:
        try:            
            if isinstance(output_png, str) and sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
                output_png = output_png.encode('utf8')
            self._vs_backend.write_png(decodestring(output_png))
            self._vs_backend.write_stdout('\n') 

Then it should work.

It seems odd to me that they’re giving us a string, and I can’t be certain that utf8 is the right encoding, but it appears to be working. I’ll ping the IPython devs and see if that’s right or what’s going on here.

Additional Fix:
Thanks for the quick fix Dino. It made my demo just now a lot prettier.

There’s one other py3 related change I needed to make:

def execute_file_as_main(self, filename):
    f = open(filename, 'rb')
    try:
        contents = f.read().replace(b"\r\n", b"\n")
    finally:
        f.close()
    code = '''