How to change matplotlib backends

Six years later and I came across a similar issue, when trying to decide which backend was available to use. Note see Caveats – below This code snippet works well for me: import matplotlib gui_env = [‘TKAgg’,’GTKAgg’,’Qt4Agg’,’WXAgg’] for gui in gui_env: try: print(“testing”, gui) matplotlib.use(gui,warn=False, force=True) from matplotlib import pyplot as plt break except: continue … Read more

Convert SVG to PNG in Python

Here is what I did using cairosvg: from cairosvg import svg2png svg_code = “”” <svg xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2000/svg” width=”24″ height=”24″ viewBox=”0 0 24 24″ fill=”none” stroke=”#000″ stroke-width=”2″ stroke-linecap=”round” stroke-linejoin=”round”> <circle cx=”12″ cy=”12″ r=”10″/> <line x1=”12″ y1=”8″ x2=”12″ y2=”12″/> <line x1=”12″ y1=”16″ x2=”12″ y2=”16″/> </svg> “”” svg2png(bytestring=svg_code,write_to=’output.png’) And it works like a charm! See more: cairosvg document

How to change backends in matplotlib / Python

Six years later and I came across a similar issue, when trying to decide which backend was available to use. Note see Caveats – below This code snippet works well for me: import matplotlib gui_env = [‘TKAgg’,’GTKAgg’,’Qt4Agg’,’WXAgg’] for gui in gui_env: try: print(“testing”, gui) matplotlib.use(gui,warn=False, force=True) from matplotlib import pyplot as plt break except: continue … Read more