The plots are not displayed inline in notebooks when using matplotlib
The plots appear completely blank. Any ideas?
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Came across the same issue on calling "Restart & Run all". Following this
%matplotlib notebook showing a blank histogram
I could resolve the issue adding
%matplotlib inline at the beginning of the cell. Also note that you can prevent string output by adding ; to the end of a line.
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user3240688
this should be accepted answer
user3665906
adding the %matplotlib inline didn't solve my problem with Sagemaker notebooks
I faced a similar issue with my Chrome Browser, whereas it works fine with Mozilla.
%matplotlib inline will lead to static images of your plot embedded in the notebook, so that cannot be the solution for this prevailing issue.
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Anakhand
Your pointer towards trying a different browser saved my sanity, thanks... Still don't know why this happens though.
Had a similar issue - %matplotlib notebook command would not display the plot but %matplotlib inline would. Had to downgrade matplotlib version from 3.1.3 to 3.1.2.
Python 3.7.9, conda 4.5.11
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If you're trying to create a graph using the Object-Oriented Interface try adding
fig, ax = plt.subplots() above your ax.plot
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Having the whole snippet in the same cell solves this issue. This means that first you add %matplotlib inline in one cell. Run it. Then you add all the elements of the figure, axes and all in the same cell, then run it. It shows the chart perfectly!
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I find inconsistent behaviour, but any of the following 2 methods should work:
Method 1 Start a cell like so:
import matplotlib matplotlib.use('TkAgg') from matplotlib import pyplot as plt plt.ion() Then in the next cell type:
plt.hist([3,8,10]) In most cases the plot will appear in its own window.
Method 2 However, sometimes (not sure why), this does not work even after a kernel restart.
You may see a little window appear that does not show the plot but remains blank and if you hover over it with the mouse, you'll get the "thinking" icon.
In that case end your plotting cell like so:
plt.pause(1) This should show the plots in the figures and they should be responsive too.
Good luck!
Tested on:
Windows 10 jupyter running inside Visual Studio Code 1.83.1 jupyter_client==8.6.0 jupyter_core==5.7.1 jupyterlab_widgets==3.0.10 python 3.10.13 matplotlib 3.8.2 
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I got solution on this. Object creation, add_axes and plot do in one cell you will get result.
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In case you do not have any output after running the cell, make sure that the cell is a code cell - In my case the cell was mistakenly turned into a 'raw' cell.
%matplotlib notebook. In my case I had to import them too.matplotlib.pyplot.show()works.