Why doesn't the save button work on a matplotlib plot?

Question

I have matplotlib 1.0.0 installed in a Python 2.7 virtualenv on Mac OS X 10.6. I can create plots fine. However, whenever I press the Save button, I can\'t type tex

Answer 1

My answer doesn't fix the problem but can workaround it easily! You can touch a new file with the correct file extension in a terminal. After you can choose this file with the mouse inside the matplotlib window and overwrite it.