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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Unable to pickle.load(fig) with mpl in jupyter notebook","articleBody":"I use the following code snippet, similar to issue #3986 on Py35/matplotlib2.0.0 installed via Anaconda3:\r\n\r\n```python\r\nimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt\r\nimport numpy as np\r\nimport pickle\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nax = plt.subplot(111)\r\nx = np.linspace(0, 10)\r\ny = np.exp(x)\r\nplt.plot(x, y)\r\nwith open('bla.pickle', 'wb') as pickle_file:\r\n    pickle.dump(ax, pickle_file)\r\nimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt\r\nimport pickle\r\n\r\nwith open('bla.pickle', 'rb') as pickle_file:\r\n    ax = pickle.load(pickle_file)\r\nplt.show()\r\n```\r\n\r\nThe latter pickle.load() fails with:\r\n\r\n```\r\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\nAttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)\r\n\u003cipython-input-23-0e84ab5169e3\u003e in \u003cmodule\u003e()\r\n     15 \r\n     16 with open('bla.pickle', 'rb') as pickle_file:\r\n---\u003e 17     ax = pickle.load(pickle_file)\r\n     18 plt.show()\r\n\r\n/home/uni09/cosmo/cbyrohl/anaconda3/envs/py35/lib/python3.5/site-packages/matplotlib/figure.py in __setstate__(self, state)\r\n   1443             allnums = plt.get_fignums()\r\n   1444             num = max(allnums) + 1 if allnums else 1\r\n-\u003e 1445             mgr = plt._backend_mod.new_figure_manager_given_figure(num, self)\r\n   1446 \r\n   1447             # XXX The following is a copy and paste from pyplot. Consider\r\n\r\nAttributeError: module 'ipykernel.pylab.backend_inline' has no attribute 'new_figure_manager_given_figure'\r\n```\r\n\r\nThis code was executed in a jupyter notebook (ipython 5.3)..\r\n\r\nWhen executing as usual python script, it works just fine. It also works fine when dumping in Jupyter and loading in script.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[TAC edited to add markup]","author":{"url":"https://github.com/cbyrohl","@type":"Person","name":"cbyrohl"},"datePublished":"2017-03-14T13:44:06.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":7},"url":"https://github.com/8291/matplotlib/issues/8291"}