Matplotlib animation not working in IPython Notebook (blank plot)

Question

I\'ve tried multiple animation sample codes and cannot get any of them working. Here\'s a basic one I\'ve tried from the Matplotlib documentation:

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Answer 1

According to this answer, you can get animation (and full interactivity support) working in an IPython notebook enabling the nbagg backend with %matplotlib nbagg.