Not a permanent fix, but the Qt4Agg backend works just fine. You just have to add
backend : Qt4Aggto ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc. This suggestion worked for me. The file matplotlibrc didn't exist but I just created it and added that single line. On Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at 10:26:26 AM UTC-4, Steven G. Johnson wrote: > > See also: > > https://github.com/stevengj/PyPlot.jl/issues/164 > > So far, the workarounds have been using a different backend (Qt4Agg > instead of TkAgg) or using a different Python distro (homebrew). > > I'm guessing that some library was recently updated in Anaconda, and > unfortunately conflicts with the Tk library that comes with MacOS X. > Probably there is some library-path environment variable that could fix the > problem. Or maybe we could manually dlopen the desired library to work > around the problem? >
