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

Use set_matplotlib_formats('svg').

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from IPython.display import set_matplotlib_formats
%matplotlib inline
set_matplotlib_formats('svg')
plt.plot()

This is also documented in a document of %matplotlib magic.

Note: InlineBackend.figure_format is deprecated.

Answer 2

%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()