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Reputation: 655

Matplotlib `figure.show()` does not show anything on Mac OSX

I'm using the latest matplotlib, version 2.0.0, installed via pip on Mac OSX Sierra. The problem is that the following example does not work as expected as no figure is shown. Note that I'm calling show() on the figure1 object because I want to show only figure1. If I use plt.show() it works but it shows both figure1 and figure2 which I don't want.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

figure1 = plt.figure()

# I need figure2 for something else but I don't want to show it.
figure2 = plt.figure()

figure1.show()

# The following would work, but I want to show
# only figure1 and not also figure2.
# plt.show()

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5693

Answers (1)

ImportanceOfBeingErnest
ImportanceOfBeingErnest

Reputation: 339120

figure.show() makes sense in interactive mode, not for permanently showing a figure. So you need to use plt.show(). In order not to show the second figure, you may close it beforehands, 

plt.close(figure2)
plt.show()

Upvotes: 2

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