[Matplotlib-devel] Please I am getting error message when running this code in Python.

[Benjamin Root]

heh, yeah, I didn't notice that. The SyntaxError would be raised by the
interpretor, not tex parser.

Solution, use IPython, not IDLE.

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Ryan May <rmay31 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It looks to me almost like the code's been pasted into a Python
> interpreter session and it's not picking up the newlines.
>
> Ryan
>
> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Benjamin Root <ben.v.root at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I suspect it is the extra backslash there in the plt.text() call.
>>
>> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 1:34 AM, vishal <vishal.goundar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> >>> import numpy as np
>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>>>
>>> mu, sigma = 100, 15
>>> x = mu + sigma * np.random.randn(10000)
>>>
>>> # the histogram of the data
>>> n, bins, patches = plt.hist(x, 50, normed=1, facecolor='g', alpha=0.75)
>>>
>>>
>>> plt.xlabel('Smarts')
>>> plt.ylabel('Probability')
>>> plt.title('Histogram of IQ')
>>> plt.text(60, .025, r'$\mu=100,\ \sigma=15$')
>>> plt.axis([40, 160, 0, 0.03])
>>> plt.grid(True)
>>> plt.show()
>>> SyntaxError: multiple statements found while compiling a single statement
>>>
>>>
>>>
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