# What would it take to put a live Matplotlib figure in a post?

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**Created:** [September 24, 2024, 3:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-would-it-take-to-put-a-live-matplotlib-figure-in-a-post/327939 "2024-09-24T15:33:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alon1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alon1/32/197167_2.png) [@Alon1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alon1)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 4:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-would-it-take-to-put-a-live-matplotlib-figure-in-a-post/327939/6 "2024-09-25T16:51:26Z")

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That’s really awesome!  
I have a couple of questions:

1. Do you think it will work with [ipympl](https://matplotlib.org/ipympl/) (otherwise the figures are not interactive, which invalidates the whole point)
2. Do you think it can work with an underlying project folder where we can set `PYTHONPATH` env variable before launching Jupyter so that users can import functions and dependencies from the joined project?

and yes, I do have a budget if this is reasonable and feasible and can be contributed as open source for the entire Discourse community.

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