From f32f433676e7dbaf28197655f65cbeeefa157774 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas A Caswell <tcaswell@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 18:56:54 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Backport PR #16235: FIX: AttributeError in TimerBase.start

---
 lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py b/lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py
index 4c262670f752..e6fb59fe52a7 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py
@@ -1110,7 +1110,7 @@ def start(self, interval=None):
             if provided.
         """
         if interval is not None:
-            self._set_interval(interval)
+            self.interval = interval
         self._timer_start()
 
     def stop(self):