IPython3 automatically config %matplotlib inline

Question

I'm using IPython 3 / Jupyter, and I want to use the %matplotlib option by default.

In IPython 2, I had the next option on the ~/.ipython/profile_default/ipython_notebook_config.py

c.InteractiveShellApp.matplotlib = 'inline'

But in IPython 3, this option is not available anymore.

It also disappeared the setting c.InlineBackend.rc, which I used to set up the appearance of charts.

How those options can be set now?

Just M · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-01 16:59:50Z

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Use the option in ~/.ipython/profile_default/ipython_kernel_config.py

edited Jun 1, 2015 at 16:59

answered Mar 10, 2015 at 17:26

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Benjamin Hodgson Over a year ago

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Just M Over a year ago

Please stop changing ipython_kernel_config to ipython_config, the second one also apply for the pure terminal interpreter where inline will not work. I do mean ipython_kernel_config.

DGrady Over a year ago

Note that you might need to create a new profile if you're upgrading from IPython 2 - the ipython_kernel_config.py file is apparently new in IPython 3.

LetzerWille Over a year ago

Still a working solution for python 3.6.5 and Jupyter QtConsole 4.3.1

volodymyr · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-27 17:27:10Z

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Edit file ~/.ipython/profile_default/ipython_config.py
Add line c.InteractiveShellApp.matplotlib = 'inline'

You probably don't have this file, so you can create it with this command

echo "c.InteractiveShellApp.matplotlib = 'inline'" > ipython_config.py

Still works well, as of Apr 2017.

edited Apr 27, 2017 at 17:27

answered Apr 30, 2015 at 0:14

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DGrady Over a year ago

This does work for automatically setting up inline plotting in the IPython Qt console, but running IPython in a terminal produces an error message:

[TerminalIPythonApp] WARNING | GUI event loop or pylab initialization failed UsageError: Invalid GUI request 'inline', valid ones are: pyglet, gtk3, qt, tk, wx, osx, qt5, gtk, glut

volodymyr Over a year ago

it works if you run ipython notebook (You do get the message when running ipython, but that does not start Jupyter)

Moritz · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-10 13:05:22Z

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Not sure if this works in your case, but you can give it a try:

I am using a custom notebook theme according to this tutorial. Basically, I entered: ipython profile create customcss in a command-line and modified the custom.css file in ~/.ipython/profile_default/static/custom

Additionally i tried to get rid of my personalizations and imports in the first cell of every notebook by writing a file called 00_my_imports.py in the folder ~/.ipython/profile_default/startup.

So in your case, you could try to execute the line '%matplotlib inline' at startup

answered Mar 10, 2015 at 13:05

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