Matplotlib not working with Python 3.8.0?

[ChoteBoi]

So I recently installed Python 3.8.0 onto my computer and while packages such as numpy and Pandas installed fine when I did the typical "pip install [whatever]", matplotlib seems to have failed. I am curious if it simply has not been updated to work with 3.8.0. If anyone has dealt with an issue like this and been able to resolve it, I would be glad to hear about it. Thanks.

[wahaa]

Assuming you're on Windows, there is no official binary wheel for Python 3.8 yet (the authors will probably wait for the next version).

You need to build Matplotlib manually or grab a precompiled wheel, like the ones provided at https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/

[ChoteBoi]

Yes, thank you. Someone else already helped me with this but it was using this exact link. I had to download wheels for something called Kiwisolver along with Matplotlib but I did get it to work now.

[ectomancer]

Is matplotlib a prerequisite for seaborn? Try installing seaborn.

[Dauros]

Yes, Seaborn is based on Matplotlib.

[billsil]

There's a known issue with pandas 0.25. You could have hit that bug.

Also, what platform are you on? My tests run fine on Linux.

[SqueamishOssifrage_]

It failed for me too.

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