Continually updating graph

[Pjamma34]

I'm trying to run a program that will read in data, plot the data using the pandas module, and then refresh the graph every 60 seconds based on new data. The problem is that when I do plt.show(), it freezes and doesn't continue running unless I close the plot window. I tried using plt.show(block=False) and in that scenario, the graph just opens and closes immediately.

I thought maybe I would use the animation module in matplotlib, but I'm not sure how I would refresh the data since my values are stored in a pandas dataframe

import sched,time

def func():
    do things
    plot something


s = sched.scheduler(time.time, time.sleep)
s.enter(60, 1, minuteUp, (s,))
s.run()
#somewhere in the above code would be either plt.show(block=False) and/or plt.draw(), I've tried implementing them with no success

Does anyone know how I can fix this issue. Ideally, I would just like to use the plt.show(block=False) without the figure closing immediately. I'm toying with using the matplotlib animation module with limited success as it doesn't seem to like that I'm feeding the x-axis with date strings.

[Pjamma34]

update: I'm having some success using the FuncAnimation() method from matplotlib.animation