how to close pandas dataframe plot

Question

This feels like (and probably is) a really dumb question, but what do you call to close a dataframe plot that didn't explicitly call matplotlib?

for example, if you type:

df.hist(data)

Is there a way to close the plot (other than manually clicking on the window's x)?

I'm used to calling plt.close(), but is there something similar in pandas? I've tried close & close(), and neither work.

Answer 1

This will wait 5 seconds before closing the window:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pandas as pd
import time

ax = df.plot()
fig = ax.get_figure()
plt.show(block=False)
time.sleep(5)
plt.close(fig)

Alternatively:

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
df = pd.Series([1, 2, 3])
df.plot(ax=ax)
plt.show(block=False)
time.sleep(5)
plt.close(fig)