Matplotlib animation not working

Question

I cannot start matplotlib animation using anaconda. Im trying to run this on Spyder:

import numpy as np from matplotlib import pyplot as plt from matplotlib import animation # First set up the figure, the axis, and the plot element we want to animate fig = plt.figure() ax = plt.axes(xlim=(0, 2), ylim=(-2, 2)) line, = ax.plot([], [], lw=2) # initialization function: plot the background of each frame def init(): line.set_data([], []) return line, # animation function. This is called sequentially def animate(i): x = np.linspace(0, 2, 1000) y = np.sin(2 * np.pi * (x - 0.01 * i)) line.set_data(x, y) return line, # call the animator. blit=True means only re-draw the parts that have changed. anim = animation.FuncAnimation(fig, animate, init_func=init, frames=200, interval=20, blit=True) plt.show() 

But it gives me an empty plot. I use this directly from the documentation site as an example, and it does not work.