matplotlib inline SyntaxError invalid syntax

Question

I have the following code snippet:

%matplotlib inline
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
$ python test.py
  File "test.py", line 1
    %matplotlib inline
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

It throws a syntax error. What do I do?

Comments

how to rectify this error?

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@Merlin's suggestion did not work for you?

Answer 1

If you're using Jupyter notebook, just mention this line int he first cell. This syntax works on the Jupyter Notebook.

In []: %matplotlib inline

This is a really good command and works best with Jupiter's IPython Notebook. Its basically used to show an image automatically within the browser without using show().

But in your python script, you can't use this syntax. You can eliminate the use of this function completely and replace it with the bellow code:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
new_obj.resample('M').sum().plot(kind="bar")
plt.show()