_tkinter.TclError: couldnt't open ....\matplotlib_128.ppm : no such file or directory-CodePudding

I am new to scripting with Python and this is my first post on stackoverflow (so I hope I phrase this question correctly).

I encountered a problem by using matplotlib. For the sake of this post I simplyfied my code to the lines which cause the problem.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

y_vals = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
x_vals = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

plt.plot(y_vals, x_vals)
plt.show()

When I run the code I recieve the following error message:

  File "c:\Users\bachm\Desktop\tmp\GUI_interface.py", line 52, in <module>
    ani = FuncAnimation(plt.gcf(), animate, interval = 1, repeat = anim_running)
  File "C:\Users\bachm\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python310\site-packages\matplotlib\pyplot.py", line 846, in gcf
    return figure()
  File "C:\Users\bachm\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python310\site-packages\matplotlib\pyplot.py", line 787, in figure
    manager = new_figure_manager(
  File "C:\Users\bachm\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python310\site-packages\matplotlib\pyplot.py", line 306, in new_figure_manager
    return _backend_mod.new_figure_manager(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\bachm\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python310\site-packages\matplotlib\backend_bases.py", line 3494, in new_figure_manager
    return cls.new_figure_manager_given_figure(num, fig)
  File "C:\Users\bachm\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python310\site-packages\matplotlib\backends\_backend_tk.py", line 934, in new_figure_manager_given_figure
    icon_img = tk.PhotoImage(file=icon_fname, master=window)
  File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_3.10.1264.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 4093, in __init__
    Image.__init__(self, 'photo', name, cnf, master, **kw)
  File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_3.10.1264.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 4038, in __init__
    self.tk.call(('image', 'create', imgtype, name,)   options)
_tkinter.TclError: couldn't open "C:\Users\bachm\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python310\site-packages\matplotlib\mpl-data\images\matplotlib_128.ppm": no such file or directory

When I check the directory the file exists and also when running the code (in VS Code) in the interactive mode the plot is generated.

This problem is giving me a huge headache and I cannot figure out why it is not running.

Thanks in advance and in chase something is unclear or phrased wrong please let me know! Cheers

CodePudding user response：

Try install pip and in cmd write "pip install matplotlib".

CodePudding user response：

Update: I (think) figured it out and the code is running now. The length of the directory exceeded the number of elements supported (255) by windows.