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Duplicate Plots, notebook displays twice

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I am starting IPython Notebook with ipython notebook --pylab=inline and then plotting using plot_acf. I am currently getting the resulting plots duplicated:

What am I doing wrong here?

Standard pandas plotting using returns_sq.plot() works fine (only one resulting plot).

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Created 10 years ago
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cancan101commented, Dec 22, 2013

This seems to be caused by the plot_acf function both plotting the graph AND returning the results which then causes IPython Notebook to plot the results again. If instead I assign the results to a variable, then I get only a single plot: x = plot_pacf(...)

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lightalchemistcommented, Apr 21, 2018

For anyone looking for a quick hack around this, it is possible to suppress the returned output from being evaluated by Jupyter simply by adding a semi-colon after the line: plot_acf(data); Not an ideal solution, but easier than most other hacks.

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