Jupyter (IPython) notebook not plotting

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I installed anaconda to use pandas and scipy. I reading and watching pandas tutorials and they all say to open the ipython notebook using

 ipython notebook --pylab==inline

but when I do that I get a message saying

"Support for specifying --pylab on the command line has been removed. Please use '%pylab = inline' or '%matplotlib =inline' in the notebook itself"

But that does not work. Then when I try "plot(arange(10))" I get a message saying "name 'plot' is not defined." I trying plotting data from a .csv file and got

"matplotlib.axes._subplots.AxesSubplot at 0xebf8b70".

What should I do?

Try `%matplotlib inline` inside the notebook (notice the lack of an `=` sign). — Chinmay Kanchi, Jul 24 '15 at 11:45
Try the instructions here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19410042/how-to-make-ipython-notebook-inline-matplotlib-graphics — JohnE, Jul 24 '15 at 12:27

AZhao · Answer 1 · 2016-01-22T15:07:57.557

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I believe the pylab magic was removed when they transitioned from IPython to a more general Jupyter notebook.

Try:

%matplotlib inline

Also when you get a message like:

"matplotlib.axes._subplots.AxesSubplot at 0xebf8b70".

That's just IPython displaying the object. You need to specify IPython display it. Hence the matplotlib inline magic.

edited Jan 22 '16 at 15:07

answered Jul 24 '15 at 13:22

AZhao

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