Why matplotlib is not working on the VSCode

[Arman777]

I wrote a basic plotting code and I run it on the VS code my somehow the program cannot run it

I deleted python itself and VS code and I downloaded them again, but the problem is not solved.

    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    x = [1,2,3]
    y = [4,5,6]
    plt.plot(x,y)
    plt.show()

    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "c:/Users/xxx/Desktop/Cmpt Physics/dreams.py", line 1, in <module>
        import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    File "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line 138, in <module>
        from . import cbook, rcsetup
    File "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\rcsetup.py", line 24, in <module>
        from matplotlib.fontconfig_pattern import parse_fontconfig_pattern
    File "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\fontconfig_pattern.py", line 18, in <module>
        from pyparsing import (Literal, ZeroOrMore, Optional, Regex, StringEnd,
    File "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\pyparsing.py", line 104, in <module>       
        import copy
    File "c:\Users\xxx\Desktop\Cmpt Physics\copy.py", line 5, in <module>
        from pylab import plot,show,grid
    File "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\pylab.py", line 1, in <module>
        from matplotlib.pylab import *
    File "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\pylab.py", line 218, in <module>
        from matplotlib.dates import (
    File "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\dates.py", line 156, in <module>
        from matplotlib import rcParams
    ImportError: cannot import name 'rcParams' from 'matplotlib' (C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py)

Any idea why this happens ?

 

[jedishrfu]

It worked on my machine so its not the program.

Perhaps you need to reinstall the matplotlib module or see if there are updates that need to be installed.

Are you using Anaconda or some other scheme to install py modules?

 

[Arman777]

It worked on my machine so its not the program.

Perhaps you need to reinstall the matplotlib module or see if there are updates that need to be installed.

Are you using Anaconda or some other scheme to install py modules?

I realized that I have a file name "copy.py" so it was clashing with the matplotlip module.

 

[jedishrfu]

Ahh okay that explains it. Bad programmer!

One rule of thumb is to always misspell things to prevent clashes with keywords and other stuff.

 

[Arman777]

Ahh okay that explains it. Bad programmer!

One rule of thumb is to always misspell things to prevent clashes with keywords and other stuff.

makes sense, thanks for the tip.