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ImportError: Matplotlib backend_wx and backend_wxagg require wxPython >=2.8.12

See original GitHub issue

This is another potential issue when in macOS that can be handled changing matplotlib settings in ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc: with

backend : MacOSX

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Created 5 years ago
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loretoparisicommented, Nov 16, 2018

@f90 by the way there is another trick!!! You can even define your local matplotlibrc. I have just realized this (I was not aware this from the docs actually), because if you run Jupyter, and this is normally outside virtualenv, you need MacOSX backend 👯‍♂️

ip-192-168-22-127:Notebooks loretoparisi$ python --version
Python 2.7.15
ip-192-168-22-127:Notebooks loretoparisi$ cat ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc:
cat: /Users/loretoparisi/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc:: No such file or directory
ip-192-168-22-127:Notebooks loretoparisi$ cat ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc
backend : TkAgg
ip-192-168-22-127:Notebooks loretoparisi$ ls
README.md       data            hello.py        pandas.py       pima.py         simple.py
ip-192-168-22-127:Notebooks loretoparisi$ touch matplotlibrc
ip-192-168-22-127:Notebooks loretoparisi$ echo "backend : MacOSX" >> matplotlibrc
ip-192-168-22-127:Notebooks loretoparisi$

So I run in VSCode Juypyter but I had to overwrite locally this file 🗡 just commited this change!

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f90commented, Nov 15, 2018

Thanks… Thats’ awkward, so I will link to this info from the README for future people to avoid confusion

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When trying to use matlablib, it always complains "Matplotlib backend_wx and backend_wxagg require wxPython >=2.8".Pretty sure that I'm using wxPython 2.8.