How to display images inside Mathematica with matplotlib.
A new window is generated by default, but is it possible to display the picture directly in the notebook?
Like this:
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3$\begingroup$ What advantage would this have over generating those plots in native MMA code? $\endgroup$– MarcoBCommented Dec 11, 2019 at 16:20
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$\begingroup$ @MarcoB I assume for comparison reasons? (Also, of course some people might like ugly Python code and clunky graphics...) $\endgroup$– Anton AntonovCommented Dec 18, 2019 at 11:38
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Seems to be able to embed images by converting to png.
import io
from PIL import Image
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
def show_plt(plot):
buf = io.BytesIO()
plot.savefig(buf, transparent=True, format='png')
buf.seek(0)
im = Image.open(buf).convert("RGBA")
buf.close()
return im
In fact, matplotlib can export svg, but wolfram does not support importing svg, so there is no way to get vector graphics.
Note that this function works for all libraries that depend on matplotlib, like seaborn:
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1$\begingroup$ Will this work on any raster image format that Python can save and Wolfram Language can import? Or did you try a few raster formats and only PNG worked? $\endgroup$– EdmundCommented Dec 17, 2019 at 23:59