Mac OSX - AttributeError: 'FigureCanvasMac' object has no attribute 'restore_region'

Question

Walking through matplotlib\'s animation example on my Mac OSX machine - http://matplotlib.org/examples/animation/simple_anim.html - I am getting this error:-

Answer 1

Looks like it's a known (and unresolved at this time of writing) issue - https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/531