IPythpn notebook inline graphics

This is yet another reference for myself.

In order to activate inline grafics, it usually recomended to call

%pylab inline

However, according to the documentation [1], this command makes a lot of imports:

import numpy
import matplotlib
from matplotlib import pylab, mlab, pyplot
np = numpy
plt = pyplot

from IPython.display import display
from IPython.core.pylabtools import figsize, getfigs

from pylab import *
from numpy import *

I found this light-weight substitution on the Internet [ 2] and use since:

%matplotlib inline
import matplotlib
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

or [3]

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
%matplotlib inline

 

References

1. Built-in magic commands.
2. How to make ipython notebook inline matplotlib graphics.
3. What is %pylab?