Pycharm does not show plot

Question

Pycharm does not show plot from the following code:

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import matplotlib as plt

ts = pd.Series(np.random.randn(1000), index=pd.date_range('1/1/2000', periods=1000))

ts = ts.cumsum()    
ts.plot()

What happens is that a window appears for less than a second, and then disappears again.

Using the Pyzo IEP IDE (using same interpreter) on the same code the plot shows as expected.

...So the problem must be with some setting on Pycharm. I've tried using both python.exe and pythonw.exe as interpreter both with same results.

This is my sys_info:

C:\pyzo2014a\pythonw.exe -u C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\PyCharm Community Edition 3.4.1\helpers\pydev\pydevconsole.py 57315 57316
PyDev console: using IPython 2.1.0import sys; print('Python %s on %s' % (sys.version, sys.platform))
Python 3.4.1 |Continuum Analytics, Inc.| (default, May 19 2014, 13:02:30) [MSC v.1600 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
sys.path.extend(['C:\\Users\\Rasmus\\PycharmProjects\\untitled2'])
In[3]: import IPython
print(IPython.sys_info())
{'commit_hash': '681fd77',
 'commit_source': 'installation',
 'default_encoding': 'UTF-8',
 'ipython_path': 'C:\\pyzo2014a\\lib\\site-packages\\IPython',
 'ipython_version': '2.1.0',
 'os_name': 'nt',
 'platform': 'Windows-8-6.2.9200',
 'sys_executable': 'C:\\pyzo2014a\\pythonw.exe',
 'sys_platform': 'win32',
 'sys_version': '3.4.1 |Continuum Analytics, Inc.| (default, May 19 2014, '
                '13:02:30) [MSC v.1600 64 bit (AMD64)]'}

Answer 1

In non-interactive env, we have to use plt.show(block=True)

Answer 2

import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('TkAgg')

Works for me. (PyCharm/OSX)

Answer 3

I test in my version of Pycharm (Community Edition 2017.2.2), you may need to announce both plt.interactive(False) and plt.show(block=True) as following:

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

x = np.linspace(0, 6.28, 100)

plt.plot(x, x**0.5, label='square root')
plt.plot(x, np.sin(x), label='sinc')

plt.xlabel('x label')
plt.ylabel('y label')

plt.title("test plot")

plt.legend()

plt.show(block=True)
plt.interactive(False)

Answer 4

I tested in my version on PyCharm 2017.1.2. I used interactive (True) and show (block=True).

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
ts = pd.Series(np.random.randn(1000), index=pd.date_range('1//2000',periods=1000))
ts = ts.cumsum()
plt.interactive(True)
ts.plot()
plt.show(block=True)

Answer 5

One property need to set for pycharm.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.interactive(False)  #need to set to False

dataset.plot(kind='box', subplots=True, layout=(2,2), sharex=False, sharey=False)

plt.show()

Answer 6

Just use

plt.show()

It does the trick, but I don't know why.