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Matplotlib savefig does not save axes

I'm trying to save a figure that works fine in IPython inline but does not save the figure to disk with the axes and titles included.

I am using TKAgg backend by default in matplotlibrc.

Any ideas what might be going wrong here? I have clearly set the xlabel and the tick marks work correctly in IPython inline plot.

import matplotlib.pylab as plt  
x = [1,2,3,3]
y = map(lambda(x): x * 2, x)
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_axes([0,0,1,1])
ax.set_title("bleh")
ax.set_xlabel("xlabel")
ax.plot(x, y, 'r--')
fig.savefig("fig.png")

Savefig image without axes labels

Solution

  • I was having the same problem using Jupyter notebook and the command: %matplotlib notebook. The figure showed correctly in the notebook but didn't print axis and titles when saved with fig.savefig(). I changed %matplotlib notebook to %matplotlib inline and that solved the problem.