From 84cf02f4e250325b6d401d3a18bcf491d422a652 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: SamSchott <ss2151@cam.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 21:35:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] FIX: AttributeError in TimerBase.start ...

... when calling with new interval
---
 lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py b/lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py
index 71f07fb33c78..70828bc0d355 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py
@@ -1086,7 +1086,7 @@ def start(self, interval=None):
             if provided.
         """
         if interval is not None:
-            self._set_interval(interval)
+            self.interval = interval
         self._timer_start()
 
     def stop(self):