How to make IPython notebook matplotlib plot inline

Question

I am trying to use IPython notebook on MacOS X with Python 2.7.2 and IPython 1.1.0.

I cannot get matplotlib graphics to show up inline.

import matplotlib import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt %matplotlib inline   

I have also tried %pylab inline and the ipython command line arguments --pylab=inline but this makes no difference.

x = np.linspace(0, 3*np.pi, 500) plt.plot(x, np.sin(x**2)) plt.title('A simple chirp') plt.show() 

Instead of inline graphics, I get this:

<matplotlib.figure.Figure at 0x110b9c450> 

And matplotlib.get_backend() shows that I have the 'module://IPython.kernel.zmq.pylab.backend_inline' backend.

Answer 1

I used %matplotlib inline in the first cell of the notebook and it works. I think you should try:

%matplotlib inline  import matplotlib import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt 

You can also always start all your IPython kernels in inline mode by default by setting the following config options in your config files:

c.IPKernelApp.matplotlib=<CaselessStrEnum>   Default: None   Choices: ['auto', 'gtk', 'gtk3', 'inline', 'nbagg', 'notebook', 'osx', 'qt', 'qt4', 'qt5', 'tk', 'wx']   Configure matplotlib for interactive use with the default matplotlib backend.