Re: [Matplotlib-users] "ipython --pylab": Figure not showing in simple plot(1, 1) command [v1.2]

[Paul H. <pmh...@gm...>]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Timothy Duly <tim...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I recently upgraded to matplotlib v1.2.0 on my Linux machine.  For some
> reason, plots are not appearing at all on my screen whenever I try to plot
> any routines.
>
> When I open the interpreter with "ipython --pylab" and do
>
> In [1]: plot(1,1)
> Out[1]: [<matplotlib.lines.Line2D object at 0x2a40450>]
>
> No plot shows up.  This is somewhat strange as no other error shows up
> either.  Does anyone know of a way to debug this? I'm not sure where to
> start.
>
> I also tried to run a simple plot in a script with
>
> from matplotlib.pyplot import *
> figure()
> plot(1,1)
> draw(); show()
>
> and still had no success.
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>

Which backend are you using?

In [1]: import matplotlib

In [2]: matplotlib.rcParams['backend']

Out[2]: 'Qt4Agg'