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Asked By – bigbug
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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Answer
I 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)
This question is answered By – Greg
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