Save plot to image file instead of displaying it using Matplotlib

Question

I am writing a quick-and-dirty script to generate plots on the fly. I am using the code below (from Matplotlib documentation) as a starting point:

from pylab         


        

Answer 1

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.savefig("image.png")

In Jupyter Notebook you have to remove plt.show() and add plt.savefig(), together with the rest of the plt-code in one cell. The image will still show up in your notebook.