%matplotlib widget not working

[doofkatze]

I've followed the installation instruction and consulted previous posts. But %matplotlib widget still give me error messages.

%matplotlib widget

`---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ImportError Traceback (most recent call last)
in
----> 1 get_ipython().run_line_magic('matplotlib', 'widget')

~/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py in run_line_magic(self, magic_name, line, _stack_depth)
2305 kwargs['local_ns'] = sys._getframe(stack_depth).f_locals
2306 with self.builtin_trap:
-> 2307 result = fn(*args, **kwargs)
2308 return result
2309

</home/gin/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/decorator.py:decorator-gen-108> in matplotlib(self, line)

~/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/IPython/core/magic.py in (f, *a, **k)
185 # but it's overkill for just that one bit of state.
186 def magic_deco(arg):
--> 187 call = lambda f, *a, **k: f(*a, **k)
188
189 if callable(arg):

~/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/IPython/core/magics/pylab.py in matplotlib(self, line)
97 print("Available matplotlib backends: %s" % backends_list)
98 else:
---> 99 gui, backend = self.shell.enable_matplotlib(args.gui)
100 self._show_matplotlib_backend(args.gui, backend)
101

~/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py in enable_matplotlib(self, gui)
3382 gui, backend = pt.find_gui_and_backend(self.pylab_gui_select)
3383
-> 3384 pt.activate_matplotlib(backend)
3385 pt.configure_inline_support(self, backend)
3386

~/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/IPython/core/pylabtools.py in activate_matplotlib(backend)
311 matplotlib.rcParams['backend'] = backend
312
--> 313 import matplotlib.pyplot
314 matplotlib.pyplot.switch_backend(backend)
315

/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/matplotlib-3.1.0+860.g4edadf965-py3.6-linux-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/pyplot.py in
38 from matplotlib import docstring
39 from matplotlib.backend_bases import FigureCanvasBase
---> 40 from matplotlib.figure import Figure, figaspect
41 from matplotlib.gridspec import GridSpec
42 from matplotlib import rcParams, rcParamsDefault, get_backend, rcParamsOrig

/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/matplotlib-3.1.0+860.g4edadf965-py3.6-linux-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/figure.py in
18
19 from matplotlib import rcParams
---> 20 from matplotlib import backends, docstring, projections
21 from matplotlib import version as _mpl_version
22 from matplotlib import get_backend

/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/matplotlib-3.1.0+860.g4edadf965-py3.6-linux-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/projections/init.py in
2 from .geo import AitoffAxes, HammerAxes, LambertAxes, MollweideAxes
3 from .polar import PolarAxes
----> 4 from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
5
6

/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mpl_toolkits/mplot3d/init.py in
4 import six
5
----> 6 from .axes3d import Axes3D

/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mpl_toolkits/mplot3d/axes3d.py in
30 import matplotlib.transforms as mtransforms
31 from matplotlib.axes import Axes, rcParams
---> 32 from matplotlib.cbook import _backports
33 from matplotlib.colors import Normalize, LightSource
34 from matplotlib.transforms import Bbox

ImportError: cannot import name '_backports' `

[doofkatze]

even import ipympl gives error although I've installed it

`---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ModuleNotFoundError Traceback (most recent call last)
in
----> 1 import ipympl

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ipympl'`

[thomasaarholt]

Sounds like you are having trouble with your python installation / virtual environment?

In the terminal, try which python and which jupyter and see if they coincide with where you have installed ipympl.

[vjmayr]

just because I forgot: you did - pip install ipympl - ?

[JimmyPark001]

In the interactive window, i can only see text/pain and text/html . I think i can figure out this issue if i can change MIME type into Image/png. do you know how i can add that MIME type in VSC?

[himanshuGoyal52]

same issue ... if you found the result please tell crow

[thomasaarholt]

Folks, you're commenting on a 4 year old issue. While open, it's likely that your issue is not the same as the original OPs.
Please include a reproducible example, or at least explain what you're doing to produce the error.

The following plot works fine on a new python 3.12 virtual environment. On my mac, I have done:

# created a fresh python environment inside the folder we're in
python -m venv .venv

# activated the python environment
source .venv/bin/activate

# installed the packages we need
pip install notebook ipympl matplotlib

# started jupyter notebook
jupyter notebook

%matplotlib widget

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.figure()
plt.plot([1,2,3])

[martinRenou]

I'd even suggest opening a new issue with all the needed information for debugging your use case.

Closing this one for triaging. Please stop commenting here 😁