switching backends

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Hi All,

I had also been having trouble switching backends, on winXP MPL 0.61. I found the reason for my problem:

import matplotlib
import myModule #myModule includes a "from matplotlib.matlab import mean" statement, which I hadn't thought of
matplotlib.use('GTKAgg')
from matplotlib.matlab import *

plot([1,2,3,4])
show()
#This doesnt work

···

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import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('GTKAgg')
from matplotlib.matlab import *
import myModule

plot([1,2,3,4])
show()
#This does work