ipython notebook arrange plots horizontally

Question

Currently, when creating two consecutive plots in an ipython notebook, they are displayed one below the other:

Answer 1

This works for me in Python 3.5, Jupyter 4.4.0.

The plots "flow around" when you resize the browser window, to fill the horizontal space.

The plots can also be different sizes (try substituting figsize=(3+i/3,2+i/4) - see the second image below)

(Just realised how old this question is; I look periodically for the same thing. I confess the code is cobbled together from other web examples, but I've lost the references now)

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
from IPython.display import HTML
import io
import base64


class FlowLayout(object):
    ''' A class / object to display plots in a horizontal / flow layout below a cell '''
    def __init__(self):
        # string buffer for the HTML: initially some CSS; images to be appended
        self.sHtml =  """
        
        """

    def add_plot(self, oAxes):
        ''' Saves a PNG representation of a Matplotlib Axes object '''
        Bio=io.BytesIO() # bytes buffer for the plot
        fig = oAxes.get_figure()
        fig.canvas.print_png(Bio) # make a png of the plot in the buffer

        # encode the bytes as string using base 64 
        sB64Img = base64.b64encode(Bio.getvalue()).decode()
        self.sHtml+= (
            '
'+ 
            ''.format(sB64Img)+
            '
')

    def PassHtmlToCell(self):
        ''' Final step - display the accumulated HTML '''
        display(HTML(self.sHtml))




oPlot = FlowLayout() # create an empty FlowLayout

# Some fairly regular plotting from Matplotlib
gX = np.linspace(-5,5,100) # just used in the plot example
for i in range(10): # plot 10 charts
    fig, ax = plt.subplots(1, 1, figsize=(3,2)) # same size plots
                           # figsize=(3+i/3,2+i/4)) # different size plots
    ax.plot(gX, np.sin(gX*i)) # make your plot here
    oPlot.add_plot(ax) # pass it to the FlowLayout to save as an image
    plt.close() # this gets rid of the plot so it doesn't appear in the cell


oPlot.PassHtmlToCell()