Unable to display plots in Pycharm (running with Anaconda on Windows Subsystem for Linux) Follow

Created September 23, 2019 22:01

Hello,

I am having a problem displaying plots/images in Pycharm. I am running Anaconda on Windows Subsystem for Linux. I've tried the code (below) to try to change the matplotlib backend, but that didn't seem to help.

I have set "DISPLAY:True" in my environment variables.

I have turned on "Scientific Mode".

Any ideas on how I can fix this?

Thank you,

Jeremy

import matplotlib
matplotlib.get_backend()
Out[3]: 'module://backend_interagg'
matplotlib.use('Gtk3Agg')
matplotlib.get_backend()
Out[5]: 'GTK3Agg'
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import skimage
img = skimage.io.imread('/awlab/project/2019_09_cancer_arrest/plates/JC_20190904_expt_77_b_FUCCI_plate_2019024077_t001/bgs_images/B2/JC_20190904_expt_77_b_FUCCI_plate_2019024077_t001_B2_0000-1.png')
plt.imshow(img)
Out[9]: <matplotlib.image.AxesImage at 0x7f1547d2d7b8>
plt.show()

5 comments

Sergey Karpov

Created September 24, 2019 08:16

Hi,

Does the following code work?

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt


plt.plot([1,2,3])
plt.show()

Is the plot shown in PyCharm?

If not, please share idea.log file from Help | Show Log in...

Seema Bhogal 90

Created September 24, 2019 09:30

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Jeremy Chang

Created September 25, 2019 05:30

Hi Sergey—

Thank you for the quick response! I don't know why, but for some reason, everything works now, and I see the plots. Maybe I just needed to close everything and restart it for some reason.

Best,

Jeremy

Mariaja611

Created October 02, 2019 07:34

Good to hear that you finally got your solution. But if you ever face any further problem you can contact me, I am currently working as a geek squad tech support team member and will definitely help you out.

Nick Romer

Created February 12, 2021 13:32

In my case, it started to work when I ran the offending script in DEBUG MODE. After that it would also show plots in scientific mode.

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