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In a message of Thu, 01 Oct 2015 18:45:06 +0100, Dave Farrance writes:
>Yet the documentation says that it's mandatory for the GUI backend base
>to implement stop() but that single_shot is optional. Ho hum.

report as a bug.  its a doc bug at least, but I think its a real bug,
and your code should have worked.

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues

Laura