matplotlib-backend-kitty

This python module allows using your kitty terminal as the target for Matplotlib's output (via icat).

To use it, add this module to your $PYTHONPATH and initialize matplotlib like this:

import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('module://matplotlib-backend-kitty')
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

You can then test it (from kitty) with something like >>> import pandas; pandas.Series(range(10)).plot().

Internally, it's based on the way Matplatlib output works for IPython: it's a hybrid of image and GUI backends, piping the Agg Backend's output to kitty's icat kitten. This means that both DataFrame.plot() and plt.show() calls will work as expected, but the image drawn to your terminal isn't interactive and animations aren't supported.