Generating a PNG with matplotlib when DISPLAY is undefined

Question

I am trying to use networkx with Python. When I run this program it get this error. Is there anything missing?

#!/usr/bin/env python

import networkx as nx
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Answer 1

For Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine:

import matplotlib as mpl
mpl.use('Agg')
from matplotlib.backends.backend_pdf import PdfPages

And then to print to file:

#PDF build and save
    def multi_page(filename, figs=None, dpi=200):
        pp = PdfPages(filename)
        if figs is None:
            figs = [mpl.pyplot.figure(n) for n in mpl.pyplot.get_fignums()]
        for fig in figs:
            fig.savefig(pp, format='pdf', bbox_inches='tight', fig_size=(10, 8))
        pp.close()

and to create the PDF:

multi_page(report_name)