/dev/tty » NLTK http://blog.tty.nl Notes on Web Development, Computer Programming, and Software Engineering Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:59:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 NLTK’s dispersion_plot on Mac OS X http://blog.tty.nl/2010/02/28/nltks-dispersion_plot-on-mac-os-x/ http://blog.tty.nl/2010/02/28/nltks-dispersion_plot-on-mac-os-x/#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:33:10 +0000 Michel Rijnders http://blog.tty.nl/?p=344 Continue reading →]]> While reading “Natural Language Processing with Python” I ran into problems on my Mac with examples that were using the dispersion_plot function: calls to the function returned immediately without displaying anything.

Turns out matplotlib‘s back-end wasn’t configured properly. To fix this I had to add a rc file (matplotlibrc) to my ~/.matplotlib directory. The rc file contains the following:

backend: TkAgg

And, hey presto:
Screen shot 2010-02-28 at 12.26.21 PM

(disclaimer: “Works on my machine!”)

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