Plots not showing in Jupyter Notebook

[tushar-mehndiratta-alt]

When I try to run plt.show() code for plotting a graph, then only the image size appears but not the plot.

Code for reproduction

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
slices_hours = [4, 8]
activities = ['Sleep', 'Work']
colors = ['r', 'g']
plt.pie(slices_hours, labels=activities, colors=colors, startangle=90, autopct='%.1f%%')
plt.show()

Actual outcome

<Figure size 640x480 with 1 Axes>

Actual Code with Output

Expected outcome

Matplotlib version

• Operating system: Windows 10 Home, Version: 1809, OS Build: 17763.529
• Matplotlib version: 3.1.0
• Matplotlib backend (print(matplotlib.get_backend())):
  module://ipykernel.pylab.backend_inline
• Python version: 3.7.3
• Jupyter version (if applicable): 4.4.0
• Other libraries: pip list
  Package Version

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attrs 19.1.0
backcall 0.1.0
bleach 3.1.0
colorama 0.4.1
cycler 0.10.0
decorator 4.4.0
defusedxml 0.6.0
entrypoints 0.3
ipykernel 5.1.1
ipython 7.5.0
ipython-genutils 0.2.0
jedi 0.13.3
Jinja2 2.10.1
jsonschema 3.0.1
jupyter-client 5.2.4
jupyter-core 4.4.0
jupyterthemes 0.20.0
kiwisolver 1.1.0
lesscpy 0.13.0
MarkupSafe 1.1.1
matplotlib 3.1.0
mistune 0.8.4
nbconvert 5.5.0
nbformat 4.4.0
notebook 5.7.8
numpy 1.16.4
pandocfilters 1.4.2
parso 0.4.0
pickleshare 0.7.5
pip 19.1.1
ply 3.11
prometheus-client 0.7.0
prompt-toolkit 2.0.9
Pygments 2.4.2
pyparsing 2.4.0
pyrsistent 0.15.2
python-dateutil 2.8.0
pywinpty 0.5.5
pyzmq 18.0.1
Send2Trash 1.5.0
setuptools 40.8.0
six 1.12.0
terminado 0.8.2
testpath 0.4.2
tornado 6.0.2
traitlets 4.3.2
wcwidth 0.1.7
webencodings 0.5.1

[ImportanceOfBeingErnest]

Many people report on the "inline" backend selected by default, but that is not my experience. Possibly some distributions add additional code that selects/activates the backend. To be on the safe side one can do it manually, e.g. putting one of the following in the first line of the notebook

• %matplotlib inline - Figures are shown as static png images (optionally svg if configured)
• %matplotlib notebook or %matplotlib nbagg - Interactive Figures inside the notebook
• %matplotlib widgets - - Interactive Figures inside the notebook (requires jupyter-matplotlib to be installed)
• %matplotlib tk or %matplotlib qt etc. - GUI windows show the figure externally to the notebook with the given interactive backend

[tushar-mehndiratta-alt]

@ImportanceOfBeingErnest Thanks it works for now.

[Lotfey]

this link would work for you as it did for me, good luck
https://github.com/matplotlib/ipympl

[1014violin]

Thank you!!! This worked for me too!

[1014violin]

Also it is helpful to restart the kernel