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:

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Answer 1

Given that today (was not available when this question was made) lots of people use Jupyter Notebook as python console, there is an extremely easy way to save the plots as .png, just call the matplotlib's pylab class from Jupyter Notebook, plot the figure 'inline' jupyter cells, and then drag that figure/image to a local directory. Don't forget %matplotlib inline in the first line!