Matplotlib animation. I understand that Pythonista doesn't support the matplotlib animation APIs. Are there any work-arounds?

I have an IOT application where measurement data is multicast from the IOT device and received by my iPAD for graphing. I wish to build a simple "strip chart" plot that updates each time new data is received.

I can create a new plot with plt.show( ) each time but my console eventually is overloaded with a series of plot figures. How can I update an existing plot and have it rendered right away?

Unfortunately the fig.canvas.flush_events( ) API is not implemented in Pythonista. That's what I use on my desktop.

Here's a simple example that works great on the desktop. What modifications are needed to get this to work in Pythonista? The fig.canvas.flush_events() is a problem on Pythonista.

import numpy as np
import time
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.ion()
fig = plt.figure()
tstart = time.time()               # for profiling
x = np.arange(0,2*np.pi,0.01)      # x-array
line, = plt.plot(x,np.sin(x))
for i in np.arange(1,200):
    line.set_ydata(np.sin(x+i/10.0))  # update the data
    plt.draw()
    fig.canvas.flush_events()
    plt.pause(0.001)  #redraw figure, allow GUI to handle events

print ('FPS:' , 200/(time.time()-tstart))
plt.ioff()
plt.show() ```