Re: [Matplotlib-users] update to: I can not get matplotlib to work on a windows xp professional machine

[Christopher B. <Chr...@no...>]

John Hunter wrote:
> Perhaps you entered it in wrong -- it should be "TkAgg" as you typed
> above but if you got this error I'm guessing you made a typo in your
> rc file.

You can also put a matplotlib.use("TkAgg") in your script which might be 
an easier way to test different back-ends than editing the rc file:

import matplotlib
matplotlib.use("TkAgg")
from pylab import subplot, show
ax = subplot(111)
ax.plot([1,2,3])
show()



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