What is the backend of matplotlib for inline plotting in jupyter

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I want to implement a custom backend of matplotlib, so I want to read the code of backend of matplotlib for inline plotting in jupyter for reference. Can anyone point me the source code of that ? Thanks

Romain · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-10 10:06:50Z

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You can get the used backend by:

%pylab inline
matplotlib.get_backend()

>> 'module://ipykernel.pylab.backend_inline'

Looking at the sourcecode in that module shows that the backend is imported from matplotlib.backends.backend_agg

The help for matplotlibrc file also has some information for specifying a new backend.

# The default backend; one of GTK GTKAgg GTKCairo GTK3Agg GTK3Cairo
# MacOSX Qt4Agg Qt5Agg TkAgg WX WXAgg Agg Cairo GDK PS PDF SVG
# Template.
# You can also deploy your own backend outside of matplotlib by
# referring to the module name (which must be in the PYTHONPATH) as
# 'module://my_backend'.
backend      : qt5agg

edited Dec 10, 2017 at 10:06

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