I use "$ipython notebook --pylab inline" to start the ipython notebook. The display matplotlib figure size is too big for me, and I have to adjust it manually. How to set the default size for the figure displayed in cell?
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Worked liked a charm for me:
matplotlib.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = (20, 10)
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brycemcd
I don't know how idiomatic this is, but I adjusted this for my jupyter notebook to get it to work:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt %matplotlib inline plt.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = (20.0, 10.0)
joelostblom
There is also
plt.rc('figure', figsize=(20.0, 10.0))
uranix
Quite weird, but after some update I need to split
%matplotlib inline and plt.rc(...) across different cells for the latter to work. Same true for matplotlib.rcParams[...]
Rishabh Agrahari
Also make sure this line is after
%matplotlib inlineI believe the following work in version 0.11 and above. To check the version:
$ ipython --version
It may be worth adding this information to your question.
Solution:
You need to find the file ipython_notebook_config.py. Depending on your installation process this should be in somewhere like
.config/ipython/profile_default/ipython_notebook_config.py
where .config is in your home directory.
Once you have located this file find the following lines
# Subset of matplotlib rcParams that should be different for the inline backend.
# c.InlineBackend.rc = {'font.size': 10, 'figure.figsize': (6.0, 4.0), 'figure.facecolor': 'white', 'savefig.dpi': 72, 'figure.subplot.bottom': 0.125, 'figure.edgecolor': 'white'}
Uncomment this line c.InlineBack... and define your default figsize in the second dictionary entry.
Note that this could be done in a python script (and hence interactively in IPython) using
pylab.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = (10.0, 8.0)
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Fabian Pedregosa
In ipython 2.0 the config file is in .ipython/profile_default/ipython_notebook_config.py
Puggie
In older versions of iPython,
ipython_notebook_config.py doesn't contain the line to configure the inline backend. Since the configuration file is not automatically updated when you update iPython (at least on Windows), you need to delete it and generate a new config file by running ipython profile create as suggested by @anmol below.
j08lue
You can locate existing profiles with
ipython profile locate.
Luke
And if you're using matplotlib instead of pyplot, the interactive command is
matplotlib.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = (10.0, 8.0)
Pastafarianist
I'm using jupyter 4.1.0-6 with python-ipykernel 4.5.2-3 and ipython 5.3.0-1 (all of them on Arch) and I have no file titled
ipython_notebook_config.py under my ~. Any idea how things may have changed in the most recent versions? |
If you don't have this ipython_notebook_config.py file, you can create one by following the readme and typing
ipython profile create
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Just for completeness, this also works
from IPython.core.pylabtools import figsize
figsize(14, 7)
It is a wrapper aroung the rcParams solution
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Mayank Bhaskar
Important for a large notebook with multiple plots, and works like a charm
In iPython 3.0.0, the inline backend needs to be configured in ipython_kernel_config.py. You need to manually add the c.InlineBackend.rc... line (as mentioned in Greg's answer). This will affect both the inline backend in the Qt console and the notebook.
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plt.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = (15, 5)
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You can use "run commands" rc to change the default figure size:
plt.rc('figure', figsize=(w,h))
answered Apr 20, 2021 at 14:09
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So, a working solution on macos is
echo "
c.InlineBackend.rc = {
'font.size': 10,
'figure.figsize': (25.0, 5.0),
'figure.facecolor': 'white',
'savefig.dpi': 72,
'figure.subplot.bottom': 0.125,
'figure.edgecolor': 'white'
}
" >> "$(ipython locate profile)/ipython_kernel_config.py"
