Reputation: 311

Programmatically Stop Interaction for specific Figure in Jupyter notebook

In case there is no need for interaction for a specific matplotlib figure in a Jupyter notebook, how to prevent that programmatically?

Manually that can be done by pressing Ctrl-w or clicking the "Stop Interaction" button. I am looking for the API access to the same operation.

Reasons:

Interactive figures use resources and warnings displayed for too many such figures.
Closing them manually is not convenient each time the cells are executed
Without interactive frame figures are more compact.

Upvotes: 13

Answers (3)

Reputation: 1

You can stop interaction using : plt.ioff()

at the end of the plot.

Upvotes: 0

Reputation: 1473

The following seems to work, though this is not ideal.

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1)
ax.plot([0,1])

plt.close(fig)

Upvotes: 1

Reputation: 85442

You can switch between notebook mode with interactivity and inline mode without such interactivity with:

%matplotlib inline

and

%matplotlib notebook

You can do this programmatically in the notebook with:

get_ipython().magic('matplotlib notebook')

or:

get_ipython().magic('matplotlib inline')

Upvotes: 7