Image png not saving

[SJaffa]

fig = plt.figure()
data.loc['Italy'].plot()
data.loc['Sweden'].plot()
fig.xticks(rotation=90)
plt.ylabel('GDP per capita (USD$)')
plt.show()

plt.savefig('plot2.png')

This is slow for some people and seemed to save just a white square??

[martinherrerias]

The problem seems to be calling plt.show() before plt.savefig, reverting them will fix the problem but jupyter will not automatically update the open png. You have to close it and open it again.

[andrewgait]

The only instance of savefig() in the current course notes is

fig.savefig('albania-austria-belgium_GDP.png', bbox_inches='tight')

towards the end of the 07-pandas_essential chapter, and this seems to work fine for saving a PNG file. I'm not sure where the example in this issue has come from, so I'm inclined to close this issue with the caveat that we're aware that calling show() before savefig() could be a problem.