The setting was disabled in Jupyter 5.X
and higher by adding below code
pylab = Unicode('disabled', config=True,
help=_("""
DISABLED: use %pylab or %matplotlib in the notebook to enable matplotlib.
""")
)
@observe('pylab')
def _update_pylab(self, change):
"""when --pylab is specified, display a warning and exit"""
if change['new'] != 'warn':
backend = ' %s' % change['new']
else:
backend = ''
self.log.error(_("Support for specifying --pylab on the command line has been removed."))
self.log.error(
_("Please use `%pylab{0}` or `%matplotlib{0}` in the notebook itself.").format(backend)
)
self.exit(1)
And in previous versions it has majorly been a warning. But this not a big issue because Jupyter uses concepts of kernels
and you can find kernel for your project by running below command
$ jupyter kernelspec list
Available kernels:
python3 /Users/tarunlalwani/Documents/Projects/SO/notebookinline/bin/../share/jupyter/kernels/python3
This gives me the path to the kernel folder. Now if I open the /Users/tarunlalwani/Documents/Projects/SO/notebookinline/bin/../share/jupyter/kernels/python3/kernel.json
file, I see something like below
{
"argv": [
"python",
"-m",
"ipykernel_launcher",
"-f",
"{connection_file}",
],
"display_name": "Python 3",
"language": "python"
}
So you can see what command is executed to launch the kernel. So if you run the below command
$ python -m ipykernel_launcher --help
IPython: an enhanced interactive Python shell.
Subcommands
-----------
Subcommands are launched as `ipython-kernel cmd [args]`. For information on
using subcommand 'cmd', do: `ipython-kernel cmd -h`.
install
Install the IPython kernel
Options
-------
Arguments that take values are actually convenience aliases to full
Configurables, whose aliases are listed on the help line. For more information
on full configurables, see '--help-all'.
....
--pylab=<CaselessStrEnum> (InteractiveShellApp.pylab)
Default: None
Choices: ['auto', 'agg', 'gtk', 'gtk3', 'inline', 'ipympl', 'nbagg', 'notebook', 'osx', 'pdf', 'ps', 'qt', 'qt4', 'qt5', 'svg', 'tk', 'widget', 'wx']
Pre-load matplotlib and numpy for interactive use, selecting a particular
matplotlib backend and loop integration.
--matplotlib=<CaselessStrEnum> (InteractiveShellApp.matplotlib)
Default: None
Choices: ['auto', 'agg', 'gtk', 'gtk3', 'inline', 'ipympl', 'nbagg', 'notebook', 'osx', 'pdf', 'ps', 'qt', 'qt4', 'qt5', 'svg', 'tk', 'widget', 'wx']
Configure matplotlib for interactive use with the default matplotlib
backend.
...
To see all available configurables, use `--help-all`
So now if we update our kernel.json
file to
{
"argv": [
"python",
"-m",
"ipykernel_launcher",
"-f",
"{connection_file}",
"--pylab",
"inline"
],
"display_name": "Python 3",
"language": "python"
}
And if I run jupyter notebook
the graphs are automatically inline
Note the below approach also still works, where you create a file on below path
~/.ipython/profile_default/ipython_kernel_config.py
c = get_config()
c.IPKernelApp.matplotlib = 'inline'
But the disadvantage of this approach is that this is a global impact on every environment using python. You can consider that as an advantage also if you want to have a common behaviour across environments with a single change.
So choose which approach you would like to use based on your requirement