Tried x = np.arange(100), x = np.linspace(-2,2,1000) with both python2 and
python3 in %python interpreter. I don't have any problem.

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 3:12 AM Xi Shen <davidshe...@gmail.com> wrote:

> OK, for this problem, it is discussed at
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15538099/conversion-of-unicode-minus-sign-from-matplotlib-ticklabels
>
> However, I just tried with Jupyter notebook, and its matplotlib can plot
> with negative values on the axes correctly, and
> matplotlib.rcParams['axes.unicode_minus'] = True.
>
> Can you guys please check if this only happens to a Python3 environment? I
> don't think I am the first one hit this problem.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 5:49 PM Xi Shen <davidshe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I worked it out...So I have start a new instance of Zeppelin...creating a
>> new notebook wont take effect...So all the Python code are executed in one
>> python vm? Shouldn't separating ones are better?
>>
>> After I get matplotlib work, I have a new problem.
>>
>> This code snippet works
>> %python
>>
>> import numpy as np
>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>>
>> x = np.arange(100)
>>
>> plt.figure()
>> plt.plot(x, x**2)
>> z.show(plt, width='300px')
>> plt.close()
>>
>> But if I change x value to x= np.linspace(-2, 2, 1000), as it it used in
>> the example, I got
>>
>> <matplotlib.figure.Figure object at 0x7fa177d197b8>
>> [<matplotlib.lines.Line2D object at 0x7fa177ecf080>]
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>> File "<stdin>", line 23, in show
>> File "<stdin>", line 69, in show_matplotlib
>> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\u2212' in
>> position 17262: ordinal not in range(128)
>>
>> I did some testing, and I found if any of the value passed to plot()
>> contains negative numbers, I will get this error...very odd.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 8:50 AM Felix Cheung <felixcheun...@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> And
>>> matplotlib.use('Agg')
>>>
>>> Would only work before matplotlib is first used so you would need to
>>> restart the interpreter. From error stack below it looks like something
>>> might be setting the default backend in matplotlib to TkAgg though.
>>>
>>> Are you using the Python interpreter or PySpark interpreter? Also how
>>> you are calling matplotlib like Moon asks?
>>>
>>> _____________________________
>>> From: moon soo Lee <m...@apache.org>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 2:34 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Matplotlib uses tkinter instead of Agg
>>> To: <users@zeppelin.apache.org>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Thanks for sharing the problem.
>>> Could you share which version of Zeppelin are you using and how did you
>>> try matplotlib inside of Zeppelin? Are you trying matplotlib with
>>> z.show() ?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> moon
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 1:56 AM Xi Shen <davidshe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I want to build a Zeppelin docker image for my self. The docker image
>>>> is based on ubuntu:wily, and has openjdk-8-jre and python3 installed. I
>>>> also installed other packages that I need.
>>>>
>>>> After started Zeppelin in the docker, I am able to access the webapp
>>>> from my local browser. I tried to execute some simple Python script, and it
>>>> works fine. But when I try to run the matplotlib example, I got error
>>>> saying that tkinter cannot find the $DISPLAY.
>>>>
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>>> File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/matplotlib/pyplot.py",
>>>> line 535, in figure
>>>> **kwargs)
>>>> File
>>>> "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_tkagg.py",
>>>> line 84, in new_figure_manager
>>>> return new_figure_manager_given_figure(num, figure)
>>>> File
>>>> "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_tkagg.py",
>>>> line 92, in new_figure_manager_given_figure
>>>> window = Tk.Tk()
>>>> File "/usr/lib/python3.4/tkinter/__init__.py", line 1859, in __init__
>>>> self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className,
>>>> interactive, wantobjects, useTk, sync, use)
>>>> _tkinter.TclError: no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable
>>>>
>>>> Some people on the Internet suggested adding matplotlib.use('Agg') at
>>>> the beginning of the notebook, but it still does not work for me.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> David S.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David S.
>>
> --
>
>
> Thanks,
> David S.
>

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