how to surpress figure pop out within interactive ipython shell?

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Dear matplotlib users,

How can I surpress the figure pop out when I make plot within the ipython interactive shell?
suppose I make a figure first and I want to save it:

fig=plt.figure()
ax=fig.add_subplot(111)
ax.plot(np.arange(10))
fig.savefig(‘fig1.png’)
###actually above is only an example and usually I use loop to make many figures.

then I want to check another plot:

plt.plot(np.arange(10))
plt.show()

The problem is, when I use plt.show() to check the recently made plot, all the figures I saved for the last session will pop out and I have to click on the close icon to close them one by one,
which can be really annoying…

any idea would be greatly appreciated!

cheers,

Chao

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Try adding ‘plt.close(fig)’ after you save the figure, or just plt.close() if you want to close everything.

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On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Chao YUE <chaoyuejoy@…985…> wrote:

Dear matplotlib users,

How can I surpress the figure pop out when I make plot within the ipython interactive shell?
suppose I make a figure first and I want to save it:

fig=plt.figure()
ax=fig.add_subplot(111)

ax.plot(np.arange(10))
fig.savefig(‘fig1.png’)
###actually above is only an example and usually I use loop to make many figures.