prevent plot from showing in jupyter notebook

Question

How can I prevent a specific plot to be shown in Jupyter notebook? I have several plots in a notebook but I want a subset of them to be saved to a file and not shown on the

Answer 1

On Jupyter 6.0, I use the following snippet to selectively not display the matplot lib figures.

import matplotlib as mpl

...

backend_ =  mpl.get_backend() 
mpl.use("Agg")  # Prevent showing stuff

# Your code

mpl.use(backend_) # Reset backend