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

For those that Thouis method didn't work:

I noticed that a simple work around is to change matplotlib backend. Here is a list of available backends:

http://matplotlib.org/faq/usage_faq.html#what-is-a-backend

Note that you should choose one of the renderer ones (i.e. the ones that support show() command). You might need to install the backend, but you might have multiple ones installed.

To do so:

import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('Qt4Agg')    #replace 'Qt4Agg' with desired backend

Warning: This should be done BEFORE importing pylab, etc.