Stop showing plots in spyder

Question

I have scripts that make lots of plots. I save them directly with plt.savefig() rather than plt.show() so I don't have to close all the windows. In spyder, they all show up in the console if I use inline (meaning I have to scroll way back to see other output), and they all show up in separate windows if I use automatic. I want them to not show up at all, because I'm not calling plt.show() ever. How can I do that?

nb: Both the suggested answers work! Thanks! I selected plt.ioff() as the correct answer since I can choose to do this for some scripts and not others.

Answer 1

Maybe you want to turn spyder support for matplotlib off completely,

Preferences | IPython Consonle | Graphics | Support for Graphics

and untick Activate

Answer 2

Try this (assuming imported pyplot as plt), at the start of the code somewhere:

plt.ioff()