Selecting a backend must be first before any other matplotlib actions.
Typically, ipython magics (the %matplotlib commands) are kept at the top
anyway.
I hope that clears it up.
Ben Root
On Feb 5, 2015 5:22 PM, "fjanoos" <fjan...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm running the following configuration
> Python 2.7.6 (default, Feb 5 2015, 00:21:43)
> IPython 3.0.0-b1
> matplotlib '1.4.2'
> The version of the notebook server is 3.0.0-b1-ee6223a.
> This is running on linux 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian
> 3.16.7-ckt2-1~bpo70+1 (2014-12-08) x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> I set up matplotlib as follows:
> import matplotlib as mpl
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> %matplotlib nbagg
>
>
> Then running this command:
> >> plt.plot(range(100))
> only displays a box (with resize, zoom, pan, etc controls) - but does not
> show the figure itself (see figure).
> <http://matplotlib.1069221.n5.nabble.com/file/n44812/Untitled.png>
> Also, when I click on any part of the figure, I get a slew of the following
> message on stderr:
> [IPKernelApp] ERROR | No such comm: 29281512bed24f259572bc6f0ea8d249
>
>
> On the other hand,
> >> plt.plot(range(100))
> >> plt.show()
> shows nothing at all.
>
> However, this
> >>%matplotlib inline
> >>plt.plot(range(100))
> displays the figure as expected.
>
> What is going on ? How can I enable the new notebook backend for matplotlib
> ?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
>
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