From fce12b95f963e9034eecf33bbbfa00385331470f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom <tdonoghue.research@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2022 12:49:04 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] set plots to run interactive mode (no blocking) (#214)

---
 test/conftest.py | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 test/conftest.py

diff --git a/test/conftest.py b/test/conftest.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9ec6cc61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/conftest.py
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+"""Pytest configuration file."""
+
+import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
+
+def pytest_configure(config):
+    """Set configurations to be run before all testing."""
+
+    # Turn on interactive mode for matplotlib
+    #   In practice, this defaults `block=False` for plt.show()
+    #   This means that plots won't show and wait for input before proceeding
+    #   To run tests while showing plots, comment this out, or replace with `plt.ioff`
+    plt.ion()