UserWarning Matplotlib is currently using agg which is a non-GUI backend so cannot show the figure

Question

Hi everyone,

I am trying to plot using matplotlib. But I am getting the below error.

UserWarning: Matplotlib is currently using agg, which is a non-GUI backend, so cannot show the figure.

How can I solve this?

Thank You

Comments

Hello,

I am facing the same problem and not able to resolve. May you please explain how you resolve the issue?

That will really help me out since I have already wasted so much time on this issue.

Thanks in advance!!

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You need to install a GUI toolkit, so that Matplotlib can display graphics (outside of Jupyter, where the browser handles display). For example, if you install the pyqt package then PyPlot should automatically use the qt5agg backend.

$ pip3 install PyQt5==5.9.2

Hope this will work.

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Comments

MD, thanks a lot! I spent several days to solve the issue, but your suggestion helped me out!

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me salvaste la vida capo

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It was helpful, Thanks

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Thanks for the help Doc :)

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it works to me :

pip3 install PyQt5

Answer 2

Simple change the configuration

matplotlib.use('Agg') to matplotlib.use('TkAgg')

This will work