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Cannot use ```%matplotlib qt``` in Jupyter notebook in Azure Machine Learning
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Lu
66
Reputation points
I would like to interact with the plots. But I got the error for
%matplotlib qt
:
ImportError: Cannot load backend 'Qt5Agg' which requires the 'qt5' interactive framework, as 'headless' is currently running
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YutongTie-MSFT 46,326 Reputation points2021-07-01T23:27:31.053+00:00 Hello,
I have seen this issue in my end, my solution is to restart my kernel, import the following first:
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('Qt5Agg')
Then,import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
You probably imported matplotlib with another framework before you tried to change to Qt5Agg. Restart your kernel.
Please try and let me know. Thanks.
Regards,
Yutong -
Lu 66 Reputation points
2021-07-02T11:25:24.717+00:00 Thanks a lot for the reply.
I tried the following linesimport matplotlib matplotlib.use('Qt5Agg') import matplotlib.pyplot as pltBut still got the error
ImportError: Cannot load backend 'Qt5Agg' which requires the 'qt5' interactive framework, as 'headless' is currently running --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ImportError Traceback (most recent call last) <ipython-input-1-137a920643c4> in <module> 1 import matplotlib 2 matplotlib.use('Qt5Agg') ----> 3 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt /anaconda/envs/myenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/matplotlib/pyplot.py in <module> 2334 dict.__setitem__(rcParams, "backend", rcsetup._auto_backend_sentinel) 2335 # Set up the backend. -> 2336 switch_backend(rcParams["backend"]) 2337 2338 # Just to be safe. Interactive mode can be turned on without /anaconda/envs/myenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/matplotlib/pyplot.py in switch_backend(newbackend) 282 if (current_framework and required_framework 283 and current_framework != required_framework): --> 284 raise ImportError( 285 "Cannot load backend {!r} which requires the {!r} interactive " 286 "framework, as {!r} is currently running".format( ImportError: Cannot load backend 'Qt5Agg' which requires the 'qt5' interactive framework, as 'headless' is currently running -
Lu 66 Reputation points
2021-07-07T14:53:13.747+00:00 Hi, I would like to know if there is any update for this issue? I still got the error after I tried the suggested solution. And restarting the kernel did not help in my case.
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