Hi John,
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2013/4/18 John Ladasky <john_ladasky@…209…>
On 04/18/2013 01:01 AM, Francesco Montesano wrote:
does plt.savefig(‘test.png’) work?
Yes, it does! Thank you, that was a useful hint.
Good, than I would say that is a clear sign that you have a non interactive backend.
Can you please give use the output of plt.get_backend() ?
If the figure get saved, it can be that you are using a non interactive backend
Ugh, the one thing that I never understood about Matplotlib was backends. So, what am I missing? (Whatever I am missing now, I had it working a year ago when I was using matplotlib 1.1.0 on Python 2.7.)
This link http://matplotlib.org/faq/usage_faq.html#what-is-a-backend should explain you what a backend is.
If you want to use always a specific backend, you should select it in the matplotlibrc file
You should have a line like this
#backend : TkAgg
Just uncomment it and put the backend that you want to use
I have also just tried ipython3. Nothing that I do in the live interpreter displays any graphs.
That is not surprising: if matplotlib doesn’t use an interactive backend, you can’t show the figures, whatever interpreter you use.
I hope that now is clearer,
Fra
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