FigureCanvasAgg' object has no attribute 'invalidate' ? python plotting

Question

I\'ve been following \'python for data analysis\'. On pg. 345, you get to this code to plot returns across a variety of stocks. However, the plotting function does not work for

Answer 1

The other answers didn't work for me. Instead my problem was because I was starting the notebook with ipython notebook --pylab. Once I dropped the --pylab things worked again.

So make sure you start ipython notebook with only ipython notebook.

(There's actually a warning emitted when you use --pylab but I missed it until now.)