matplotlib: RuntimeError: Python is not installed as a framework

Question

This question has been asked before, in here, also here. However, the solution didn\'t fix the problem for my case.

The original error is, when I try to impor

Answer 1

I had the same issues in python 2.7 in virtualenv and I managed to fix those by simply downgrading matplotlib to version 2.1.0

Answer 2

I was using pyenv so the matplotlibrc path wasn't in the home directory, so I created this script to figure the path out and change the backend to Tkagg:

vim $(python -c "import os,matplotlib; print(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(matplotlib.__file__), 'mpl-data/matplotlibrc'));")

This script should work with any python on your system though.

Answer 3

I was also having the same error. What I have done is to install miniconda packages and using the pythonw. Python app was already installed in my mac. Installation is as simple as breaking an egg. Just bash the .sh file in the terminal.

Answer 4

I run my script in virtualenv. Python version is 3.5.

Add a line:

backend: TkAgg

in file:

~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc

This solved the problem.

If you want to know more about why adding this solves the problem, you can read about customizing matplotlib's backend. And TkAgg solves this issue because of it's dependency with Tkinter.

Answer 5

Below worked for me:

import matplotlib  
matplotlib.use('TkAgg')   
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt  

Reference: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/2375

Answer 6

I installed Jupyter Notebook in virtualenv and below worked for me:

At Console:

echo "backend: TkAgg" >> ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc
pip install matplotlib==2.1.0

On Notebook:

import matplotlib

Restart the kernel:

dataframe.plot.hist()
...

In my opinion, it will fix the error.