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Description
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Bug summary
Importing matplotlib fails with ImportError: cannot import name 'get_backend' from 'matplotlib'.
Code for reproduction
import matplotlibActual outcome
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 1080, in <module>
rcParamsOrig = RcParams(rcParams.copy())
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 870, in __getitem__
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 33, in <module>
import matplotlib.image
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/matplotlib/image.py", line 18, in <module>
from matplotlib.backend_bases import FigureCanvasBase
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backend_bases.py", line 46, in <module>
from matplotlib import (
ImportError: cannot import name 'get_backend' from 'matplotlib' (/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py)
Expected outcome
Matplotlib is imported
Matplotlib version
- Operating system: GNU/Linux
- Matplotlib version: 3.0 git master
- Python version: 3.7.1
Python from Arch repo, matplotlib from git master.