When importing pandas profiling matplotlib cannot show plots

[diepala]

Describe the bug

In a jupyter notbook, when importing pandas profiling, matplotlib won't show any plots. This also happens in a normal script. Matplotlib raises the warning UserWarning: Matplotlib is currently using agg, which is a non-GUI backend, so cannot show the figure.. This does not happen if I don't import the pandas profiling.

To Reproduce

In a jupyter notebook, the following code will not show any plots

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from pandas_profiling import ProfileReport

plt.plot([1,2,3])

But by removing the second line (from pandas_profiling import ProfileReport) it will behave as expected The bug can also be reproduced in a normal script, by adding plt.show() at the end.

Version information:

Version information is essential in reproducing and resolving bugs. Please report:

• Python version: 3.9.7
• Environment: jupyter notebook in vs code, and from comand line
• pip:

Click to expand Version information

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[heming611]

ran into the same problem with pandas-profiling 3.1.0, downgraded it to 2.10.0 and the problem disappeared.

[ghost]

Also ran into it with pandas_profiling 3.1.0.
Solved by importing matplotlib after pandas_profiling and adding the magic command. Magic command is required otherwise nothing is displayed:

import pandas_profiling

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
%matplotlib inline

plt.plot([1,2,3]);

[fabclmnt]

Same as #837