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Figures not showing in interactive mode with macosx backend #6838
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Matplotlib 1.5.1, Python 3.5.2, ipython 5.0.0, OS X El Capitan; Python3 installed with Homebrew, matplotlib through Pip. Empty matplotlibrc file, except for backend : macosx
When creating a figure in non-interactive mode in ipython, matplotlib behaves as expected:
import matplotlib.pylab as pl
pl.ioff()
pl.figure()
pl.show()
Gives me a nice on-screen figure. When I do the same in interactive mode (change ioff() to ion()) I get no on-screen figure, nothing. Exact the same happens when I use pl.ioff() combined with pl.show(block=False), i.e. I again get no on-screen figure.
Could this be a bug in matplotlib?
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bartvstratum commentedon Jul 26, 2016
Seems to be related to ipython 5.0.0; I downgraded it to 4.2 and now everything works again as expected
afvincent commentedon Jul 26, 2016
Do you use the magic
%matplotlibin IPython (or launch it withipython --matplotlibor similar)?bartvstratum commentedon Jul 26, 2016
No, I simply launch
ipythonand run the exact code shown abovebartvstratum commentedon Jul 26, 2016
Ah, with
%matplotlibit also works with ipython 5.0.0. I was pointed to this: ipython/ipython#9811 and #6734 from StackOverflow, so it seems to be a known problem.tacaswell commentedon Jul 28, 2016
Closing as not a bug.