matplotlib.pyplot has no attribute 'style'

Question

I am trying to set a style in matplotlib as per tutorial http://matplotlib.org/users/style_sheets.html

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt plt.style.use('ggplot') 

but what I get in return is:

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'style' 

My matplotlib version is 1.1.1 (and I'm on a Mac running Mavericks). Where are the styles in this version?

thanks!

Answer 1

My matplotlib version is 1.1.1

There's your problem. The style package was added in version 1.4. You should update your version.

Answer 2

In ipython notebook I also had to include %matplotlib inline, otherwise I would still get the same error.

%matplotlib inline import matplotlib matplotlib.style.use('ggplot')