How can I open the interactive matplotlib window in IPython notebook?

Question

I am using IPython with --pylab=inline and would sometimes like to quickly switch to the interactive, zoomable matplotlib GUI for viewing plots (the one that po

Answer 1

According to the documentation, you should be able to switch back and forth like this:

In [2]: %matplotlib inline 
In [3]: plot(...)

In [4]: %matplotlib qt  # wx, gtk, osx, tk, empty uses default
In [5]: plot(...) 

and that will pop up a regular plot window (a restart on the notebook may be necessary).

I hope this helps.