Matplotlib: Save figure as file from iPython notebook

Question

I am trying to save a Matplotlib figure as a file from an iPython notebook.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt  fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.add_axes([1,1,1,1]) ax.plot([1,2])  fig.savefig('test.png') 

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The inline view in the iPython notebook looks good:

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The file 'test.png' is almost empty though. It looks like the plot is shifted to the top right, you can see the tick labels '1.0' and '0.0' in the corner.

How can I produce a file from the iPython notebook that looks like the inline view?

Answer 1

Problem solved: add 'bbox_inches='tight' argument to savefig.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt  fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.add_axes([1,1,1,1]) plt.plot([1,2])  savefig('test.png', bbox_inches='tight') 

I don't understand what's happening here, but the file looks like the iPython notebook inline file now. Yay.