pylab/networkx; no node labels displayed after update

Question

After I have updated matplotlib to the current version I encounter a problem with node labels in networkX: if I use the nx.draw(G) command, I get a graph, but n

Answer 1

This is hitting a known (but unresolved) bug in the OSX backend (#3470).

Switching to one of the Agg based backends should 'resolve' the problem by avoiding it.

UPDATE

Part of the problem has been identified and merged https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/3564. This fix should be in mpl v1.4.1 and higher.