matplotlib Qt5Agg backend error: 'figure' is an unknown keyword argument

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votes

I am running python 3.5, via an up-to-date anaconda distribution, on windows 7. When I use Qt5Agg as the matplotlib backend (set via my matplotlibrc file), I get the error in the subject line. It is very simple to reproduce:

  • Start python from a cmd.exe prompt
  • from pylab import *
  • figure(1)

Same problem in ipython.

Thoughts? Thanks.

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python-3.xmatplotlibpyqt5

1 Answers

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votes

I had the same issue. I found the solution here

Specifically, the following now works:

import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('Qt4Agg')
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt


plt.figure(figsize=(12,8))
plt.title("Score")
plt.show()