How to enable display of Matplotlib graphs with PyCharm?

Question

When I run a program with PyCharm, it doesn't display graphs made with Matplotlib. E.g.:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
[...]
plt.imshow(montage(W / np.max(W)), cmap='coolwarm')

I tried calling

plt.interactive(False)

first, but it didn't make a difference.

Running the same program with ipython3, the graphs are displayed.

There is a setting someplace deep in the options to select the matplotlib backend to use. Make sure it is set to qt4. — tacaswell
– tacaswell, Commented Aug 28, 2016 at 18:36

Fanta · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 09:54:36Z

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I set a default back-end for my system in matplotlibrc (TkAgg), and that did the trick.

answered May 23, 2017 at 9:54

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DAA · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-09 07:07:43Z

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The below code worked for me:

in pycharm-community-2018.2.2
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
df.boxplot(column='ApplicantIncome')
plt.show()

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answered Oct 9, 2018 at 6:12

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