/dev/tty: NLTK’s dispersion_plot on Mac OS X (Books)While reading “Natural Language Processing with Python” I ran into problems on my Mac with examples that were using the dispersion_plot function: calls to the function returned immediately without displaying anything. Turns out matplotlib’s back-end wasn’t configured properly. To fix this I had to add a rc file (matplotlibrc) to my ~/.matplotlib directory. The rc file contains the following: backe
