[FIXED] Pylab / matplotlib magic in IPython: supress loading message

Issue

Currently in IPython, when you call %pylab inline or %matplotlib inline the following message displays under the code block.

"Populating the interactive namespace from numpy and matplotlib"

How I can suppress this message from being displayed?

Solution

I don't think there's a builtin way of suppressing that message since if you look at the %pylab magic function in this file you can see that the print statement is hard coded in there.

If this is a one-off kind of thing you can simply comment/remove that print line from your local library. (Typically it would be found at /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/IPython/core/magics/pylab.py.) Or possibly redirect stdout to devnull or something like that.

Answered By - toes