ipython notebook pylab fig size running twice?

Question

I am using iPython notebook wo do some visualization. Figures are inline (the profile defaults to interactive, as this supports a number of users who prefer interactive more frequently):

%pylab inline

Using the inline plot, I often set the fig size manually:

figsize(10,5)

I find that I need to run cells twice to realize a change in the fig size. For example, if I define cell [1] as figsize(10,5) and run it, the output is the correct size. If I then run cell [2] with `fig size(5,10)1 I get output that is of size (10,5). A second run of cell [2] draws correctly.

Any insight into why this is occurring? Is it due to the inline backend and I just need to live with it?

Thanks.

Matt Matt · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-12T17:15:31

Definition: figsize(sizex, sizey)
Docstring:
Set the default figure size to be [sizex, sizey].

This is just an easy to remember, convenience wrapper that sets::

  matplotlib.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = [sizex, sizey]

This seem correct to me, if you run the following, whatever value of X, Y I always get the right plot

figsize(10,5)
plot(range(10))

if you run it after your plot, then you set the default for next plot... but without exact example, hard to say..

ipython notebook pylab fig size running twice?

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