Jupyter Notebook / Python - Enabling matplotlib?

Question

Within a Jupyter Notebook, why is it necessary to include this line:

%matplotlib inline

This seems to be required for matplotlib to work.

ImportanceOfBeingErnest · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-07 09:49:08Z

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It is not necessary to include the line %matplotlib inline in a jupyter notebook.

Introducing this line selects the backend for matplotlib plotting to be the inline backend. This simplifies a lot of things, such as showing figures. If this backend is selected, a figure will automatically appear in the output once it is meantionned in a cell.

Without having selected the %matplotlib inline backend, you would need to call plt.show() to show the matplotlib output.

answered Nov 7, 2017 at 9:49

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