How to animate text in matplotlib? -

i trying animate text box in matplotlib figure, cant seem working. know how properly?? example below.

from matplotlib import animation import matplotlib.pyplot plt import numpy np mpl_toolkits.basemap import basemap  fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111)  times = ['first', 'second', 'third']  time_text = text(.5, .5, '', fontsize=15)   def updatefig(num):     global mt     mt = text(.5, .5, times[num], fontsize=15)  anim = animation.funcanimation(fig, updatefig, frames=len(times)-1, blit=true, init_func=init) 

text artist , animate other artist:

def updatefig(num):     time_text.set_text(times[num])     return time_text,