# Is threre a way to interact with PythonView?

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/is-threre-a-way-to-interact-with-pythonview/7108
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** python
**Created:** [April 30, 2021, 9:34am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/is-threre-a-way-to-interact-with-pythonview/7108 "2021-04-30T09:34:03Z")
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### Author: ![CsatiZoltan](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/csatizoltan/32/6997_2.png) [@CsatiZoltan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/CsatiZoltan)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2026, 9:15am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/is-threre-a-way-to-interact-with-pythonview/7108/3 "2026-05-27T09:15:30Z")

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It is possible to embed a Matplotlib figure into Qt using Qt for Python ([example 1](https://doc.qt.io/qtforpython-6/examples/example_external_matplotlib_widget_gaussian.html), [example 2](https://doc.qt.io/qtforpython-6/examples/example_external_matplotlib_widget3d.html)) thanks to the Qt [backend](https://matplotlib.org/stable/users/explain/figure/backends.html) of Matplotlib. Does it require PySide though? Is there a way to embed it directly in C++ Qt?  
I would like to create a custom Qt widget that contains a Matplotlib figure, and this custom widget would be docked as a panel in ParaView.

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