A drop-in replacement for the udacityplots library

udacityplots.py

import base64
import json
import matplotlib, matplotlib.pyplot
import numpy
import types 

def show_plot(width, height=None):
    """
    A decorator -- show the matplotlib plot after `f` completes.
    Takes optional parameters (width, height) determining the size of the plot.
    """
    def const_decorator(f):
        def wrapped_f(*args, **kwargs):        
            fig=matplotlib.pyplot.figure(figsize=(width, height))
            ret = f(*args, **kwargs)
            matplotlib.pyplot.show()
            return ret
        return wrapped_f
    if type(width)==types.FunctionType:
        f = width
        width, height = 9, 4
        return const_decorator(f)
    else:
        return const_decorator
        

def output_image(*args, **kwargs):
    raise NotImplementedError