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I am using the terminal in jupyter and am trying to plot with matplotlib. I need to plot inline and so i use %matplotlib inline but i am getting the following error:

>>> %matplotlib inline File "<stdin>", line 1 %matplotlib inline ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Why am i getting this error? Is it because it is a terminal and not jupyter notebook type environment? I had tried the same code in jupyter notebook and it did not return any errors.

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    Yes, %whatever is an IPython magic command, which will only work in IPython (Jupyter uses IPython kernel by default). Commented Jan 4, 2020 at 18:12

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You should run ipython instead of python in the Jupyter terminal. Then you can execute any magic command.

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I tried running ipython and got this error: UnknownBackend: No event loop integration for 'inline'. Supported event loops are: qt, qt4, qt5, gtk, gtk2, gtk3, tk, wx, p yglet, glut, osx
Try to find solution in: stackoverflow.com/questions/49347477/… and stackoverflow.com/questions/42616768/…
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trying using 'exec(%matplotlib inline)'. Works for me on python3.6

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