Matplotlib AttributeError: module 'matplotlib.cbook' has no attribute '_define_aliases'

Question

When trying to plot a graph on jupyter with pyplot I am running the following code:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([1,2,3,4])
plt.ylabel(\'some num         


        

Answer 1

I had exactly the same error after installing scikit. The workaround for that was to upgrade pip using the following command first before installing any other packages.

!pip install pip --upgrade