macos - Anaconda Runtime Error: Python is not installed as a framework?

Question

I've installed Anaconda with the pkg installer:

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but when I attempt to use anything from matplotlib, i.e.:

 from matplotlib import pyplot as plt

I get

RuntimeError: Python is not installed as a framework.
The Mac OS X backend will not be able to function correctly if Python is not installed 
as a framework. See the Python documentation for more information on installing Python 
as a framework on Mac OS X. Please either reinstall Python as a framework,
or try one of the other backends.

I'm really not sure what this means, or how to go about fixing it.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31373163/anaconda-runtime-error-python-is-not-installed-as-a-framework

Answer 1

Posting since I just had this issue and this was a quick fix:

If you used pip to install:

1. Create ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc

2. Add "backend: TkAgg" (without the quotations) to the file.