How to hide in IPython notebook

Question

I am plotting a NumPy array of values, I, using IPython notebook in %matplotlib inline mode with the plot command plt.plot(I,\'o\'). <

Answer 1

You can use a semi-colon ; to end the line. This suppresses the unwanted output when generating plots:

plt.plot(I,'o');

In general, using a semi-colon stops IPython from printing any output value from that line of a code block. For example, the executing the cell containing the code 1+1; would not output 2.

An alternative way would be to bind a variable to the plot:

_ = plt.plot(a)

This way, IPython only shows you the plots and the name _ is bound to the unwanted output.

Answer 2

Another way is to just write plt.show() at the end of your drawing code. It would take less symbols to type if you're generating many subplots and/or drawing many plots on a single subplot.