Matplotlib - Tcl_AsyncDelete: async handler deleted by the wrong thread?

Question

I\'m asking this question because I can\'t solve one problem in Python/Django (actually in pure Python it\'s ok) which leads to RuntimeError: tcl_asyncdel

Answer 1

By default matplotlib uses TK gui toolkit, when you're rendering an image without using the toolkit (i.e. into a file or a string), matplotlib still instantiates a window that doesn't get displayed, causing all kinds of problems. In order to avoid that, you should use an Agg backend. It can be activated like so --

import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('Agg')
from matplotlib import pyplot

For more information please refer to matplotlib documentation -- http://matplotlib.org/faq/howto_faq.html#matplotlib-in-a-web-application-server