jupyter notebook inline plots as svg

Question

By default jupyter notebook inline plots are displayed as png, e.g.:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
%matplotlib inline
plt.plot()

How can

Answer 1

%config InlineBackend.figure_formats = ['svg'] does the trick. A minimal example is:

%config InlineBackend.figure_formats = ['svg']

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
%matplotlib inline
plt.plot()