prevent plot from showing in jupyter notebook
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 notebook as this slows considerably. A minimal working example for a Jupyter notebook is: %matplotlib inline from numpy.random import randn from matplotlib.pyplot import plot, figure a=randn(3) b=randn(3) for i in range(10): fig=figure() plot(b) fname='s%03d.png'%i fig.savefig(fname) if(i%5==0): figure() plot(a) As you can see I have two types of plots, a and b. I want a's to be plotted and shown and I don't want the b