python %matplotlib inline code example

Example 1: %matplotlib inline

If you want to add plots to your Jupyter notebook, then %matplotlib inline is a standard solution. And there are other magic commands will use matplotlib interactively within Jupyter.

%matplotlib: any plt plot command will now cause a figure window to open, and further commands can be run to update the plot. Some changes will not draw automatically, to force an update, use plt.draw()

%matplotlib notebook: will lead to interactive plots embedded within the notebook, you can zoom and resize the figure

%matplotlib inline: only draw static images in the notebook

Example 2: use of matplotlib inline

With this backend, the output of plotting commands is displayed inline within frontends like the Jupyter notebook, directly below the code cell that produced it. The resulting plots will then also be stored in the notebook document.