since matplotlib 1.3 matplotlib figures are pickle-able
When I try an example found on stackoverflow:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import pickle
ax = plt.subplot(111)
x = np.linspace(0, 10)
y = np.exp(x)
plt.plot(x, y)
pickle.dump(ax, file('myplot.pickle', 'w'))
Source: Store and reload matplotlib.pyplot object
I get the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:/Work/Programming/Experimental/picklematplotlib/main.py", line 15, in <module>
pickle.dump(ax, file)
File "C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\six.py", line 116, in __getattr__
_module = self._resolve()
File "C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\six.py", line 105, in _resolve
return _import_module(self.mod)
File "C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\six.py", line 76, in _import_module
__import__(name)
File "C:\Python32\lib\dbm\gnu.py", line 3, in <module>
from _gdbm import *
ImportError: No module named _gdbm
I am using matplotlib-1.3.1.win-amd64.py3.2.exe version of matplotlib together with python3.2 on an 64bit windows machine
according to: http://docs.python.org/2/library/gdbm.html gdbm is named dbm.gnu in python3. so is it a software bug in matplotlib or what could I do to make it working.
surprisingly the .pickle file is created and useable. this means, the program crashes directly after writing the .pickle file
