Cufflinks for plotly: setting cufflinks config options launches

Question

I'm trying to use cufflinks locally to generate plotly graphs from a pandas Dataframe

However, when I try and configure cufflinks in a python console, it then goes into ipython mode:

>>> import cufflinks as cf
>>> cf.set_config_file(offline=True)
In :

Subsequently, when I try and generate a plot, nothing appears:

In : df.iplot(kind='bar', barmode='stack', filename='cufflinks/test')
In : 

Can cufflinks be used offline without a plotly account?

Answer 1

@elsherbini and @Charon: unfortunately I have not enough credentials to comment, so I have to write a new answer. your code pointed me into the right direction, but with the latest cufflinks version it goes even simpler:

import cufflinks as cf
df.iplot(kind='bar', barmode='stack', filename="my_barplot" , asPlot=True)

This code will generate a my_barplot.html file and open the plot in the default web browser. And this code is scriptable.