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[pluiez]

Hi I'm new to plotly_express and also plotly, please correct me if I missed anything. I followed the steps described walkthrough.ipynb, and run the following code snippet in a single python file but nothing happened, no figure and nothing generated.

import plotly_express as px
gapminder = px.data.gapminder()
gapminder2007 = gapminder.query("year == 2007")

px.scatter(gapminder2007, x="gdpPercap", y="lifeExp")

Do I need to plot the figure by using plot(fig) like in matplotlib?
Thanks!

[nicolaskruchten]

Are you in JupyterLab by chance? There’s an extra installation step in the ReadMe for jlab... if not, can you tell me about your environment please?

[pluiez]

Are you in JupyterLab by chance? There’s an extra installation step in the ReadMe for jlab... if not, can you tell me about your environment please?

Hi, thank you for your reply. I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and python 3.7.3. I put the above code in a demo.py file and run it from the terminal, I'm sure I'm not in Jupyter notebook or ipython. The installed packages are as follows:

Package          Version 
---------------- --------
attrs            19.1.0  
certifi          2019.3.9
chardet          3.0.4   
decorator        4.4.0   
idna             2.8     
ipython-genutils 0.2.0   
jsonschema       3.0.1   
jupyter-core     4.4.0   
nbformat         4.4.0   
numpy            1.16.2  
pandas           0.24.2  
patsy            0.5.1   
pip              19.0.3  
plotly           3.7.1   
plotly-express   0.1.3   
pyrsistent       0.14.11 
python-dateutil  2.8.0   
pytz             2018.9  
requests         2.21.0  
retrying         1.3.3   
scipy            1.2.1   
setuptools       40.8.0  
six              1.12.0  
statsmodels      0.9.0   
traitlets        4.3.2   
urllib3          1.24.1  
wheel            0.33.1  

Please tell me if you need more information.

[nicolaskruchten]

Ah so the issue is that Plotly Express only renders in a browser so you can't use it from the terminal alone. You need to either use Jupyter or save the resulting objects to HTML files and open those files in a browser.

[pluiez]

Ah so the issue is that Plotly Express only renders in a browser so you can't use it from the terminal alone. You need to either use Jupyter or save the resulting objects to HTML files and open those files in a browser.

Oh I see. Thank you for your help!