How to recover matplotlib defaults after setting stylesheet

Question

In an ipython notebook, I used a matplotlib stylesheet to change the look of my plots using

from matplotlib.pyplot import *
%matplotlib inline
style.use(\'g         


        

Answer 1

You should be able to set it back to default by:

import matplotlib as mpl
mpl.rcParams.update(mpl.rcParamsDefault)

In ipython, things are a little different, especially with inline backend:

In [1]:

%matplotlib inline
In [2]:

import matplotlib as mpl
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
In [3]:

inline_rc = dict(mpl.rcParams)
In [4]:

plt.plot(range(10))
Out[4]:
[]

In [5]:

mpl.rcParams.update(mpl.rcParamsDefault)
plt.plot(range(10))
Out[5]:
[]

In [6]:

mpl.rcParams.update(inline_rc)
plt.plot(range(10))
Out[6]:
[] 

Basically, %matplotlib inline uses its own rcParams. You can grab that from the source, but the arguably easier way is probably just save the rcParams as inline_rc after %matplotlib inline cell magic in this example, and reuse that later.