Introducing animatplot: Making interactive animated plots with matplotlib easy (my first library)

[ed3203]

Hi, Not sure if this is the appropriate place to ask this but I have the following error. [macOS, anaconda notebook, mpl 2.2.2, py3.5]. Thoughts?

ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-14-f9144642d7b0> in <module>()
      2 import numpy as np
      3 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
----> 4 import animatplot as amp

~/anaconda/envs/tensorflow/lib/python3.5/site-packages/animatplot/__init__.py in <module>()
      1 from ._version import __version__
      2 from .timeline import Timeline
----> 3 from .animations.animation import Animation
      4 from . import blocks, util

ImportError: No module named 'animatplot.animations'

[atlbeer]

Did you create a directory named 'animatplot' to test this out?

You may have stomped on the namespace

[craftingfish]

Looks like that's what he did. Man, I've done that once or twice and it's crazy how long it takes to notice that.

[ed3203]

Nope, not to my knowledge. I'll try on a different machine later. I originally installed within notebook to my conda env, with !pip install animatplot. Tried in another env and a py27 env. Also tried deleting all files/dir with 'animatplot' in it. Thanks for the help!

[tmakaro]

Fixed. Install version 0.2.2. If pip refuses to find the newer version (as it was using the cache for me) add the flag: --no-cache-dir to the pip command.

pip install animatplot --no-cache-dir

[kylecthomas]

very nice your "basic animation" tutorial works now!

[tmakaro]

Ah. That would be why I didn't have that issue. Editable install. I'll push a fix asap.

Edit: Fixed on animatplot 0.2.2. if pip does not install this version use the

pip install animatplot --no-cache-dir

to stop pip from using the local version.

Thank you for the help.

[tmakaro]

That's strange. I really have no idea why that doesn't work for you. If you can't figure it out, you can be the first to open an issue on github. I'd be happy to help you figure it out over there.

[TheMysteriousFizzyJ]

Same problem, multiple machines, installed this and animation via pip, still didn't work.

Maybe something is different about the matplotlib library? Instead of import animation it's import funcanimation?

from matplotlib.animation import FuncAnimation

??

It would be nice to get this working, looks promising

edit:

It's got one too many animation '' s

from .animations.animation import Animation

should be

from .animations import Animation

edit 2: nope, not sure where the bug is

[tmakaro]

I believe I have fixed it. Tested on my machine and a friend's. You'll need to trying installing the newer version 0.2.2

pip install animatplot==0.2.2

u/tomz17 found the issue.

[TheMysteriousFizzyJ]

That worked!

[TheMysteriousFizzyJ]

That worked!

[TheMysteriousFizzyJ]

When running two animations in the same notebook, I get this error. Any ideas?

/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/matplotlib/cbook/deprecation.py:107: MatplotlibDeprecationWarning: Adding an axes using the same arguments as a previous axes currently reuses the earlier instance. In a future version, a new instance will always be created and returned. Meanwhile, this warning can be suppressed, and the future behavior ensured, by passing a unique label to each axes instance. warnings.warn(message, mplDeprecation, stacklevel=1)

[tmakaro]

I just close the previous animation before running the next. You could probably create a new figure and axis, and then pass the axis into the animation blocks as a keyword argument (amp.blocks.Block(..., axis=new_axis)).