[Matplotlib-users] no plots showing

2015-11-27 Thread Paul Harrison
Hi guys, If I do the following, no plot shows: ply5@xroa-dt-20:~> python Python 2.6.9 (unknown, Apr 7 2015, 08:28:12) [GCC 4.3.4 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 152973]] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import pylab as plt >>> plt.figure() >>>

Re: [Matplotlib-users] no plots showing

2015-11-27 Thread Paul Harrison
Apologies, the parentheses must have got missed off when I copied and pasted the output from my terminal. Same issue though, I don't get any plots come up. This always used to work, and works for my colleagues! Paul On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Paul Harrison wrote: > > Hi guy

Re: [Matplotlib-users] no plots showing

2015-11-27 Thread Paul Harrison
show the output of actually calling > plt.show()? > > Best > Jens > > On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 at 11:58 Paul Harrison > wrote: > >> Apologies, the parentheses must have got missed off when I copied and >> pasted the output from my terminal. >> >> Same issue

Re: [Matplotlib-users] no plots showing

2015-11-27 Thread Paul Harrison
lotlib > >>> matplotlib.get_backend() > > after your plot. It is possible that your machine is set to use a non > graphical backend > > best > Jens > On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 at 12:29 Paul Harrison > wrote: > >> >> Here's some output from an s

Re: [Matplotlib-users] no plots showing

2015-11-28 Thread Paul Harrison
contains information about how the backends are set. http://matplotlib.org/faq/usage_faq.html#what-is-a-backend Note that the MPLBACKEND environmental variable was not added until matplotlib 1.5 best Jens > On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 at 14:30 Paul Harrison > wrote: > I get: > > >