Stop showing plots in spyder

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I have scripts that make lots of plots. I save them directly with plt.savefig() rather than plt.show() so I don't have to close all the windows. In spyder, they all show up in the console if I use inline (meaning I have to scroll way back to see other output), and they all show up in separate windows if I use automatic. I want them to not show up at all, because I'm not calling plt.show() ever. How can I do that?

nb: Both the suggested answers work! Thanks! I selected plt.ioff() as the correct answer since I can choose to do this for some scripts and not others.

spyder matplotlib python
3 Answers

Try this (assuming imported pyplot as plt), at the start of the code somewhere:

plt.ioff()
user_95456360

Maybe you want to turn spyder support for matplotlib off completely, 

Preferences | IPython Consonle | Graphics | Support for Graphics

and untick Activate

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user_41243170

In case anyone is still struggling with this issue, I figured that adding a plt.close() after plt.savefig() will do the work. (I'm using Spyder 5.1.5 with Python 3.8.12)

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