On Windows, matplotlib crashes sometimes. I found this explanation and it worked for me. matplotlib crashing Python
plt.close('all')
The latest version 1.4.2 enables zooming in notebook: The nbagg backend. See also ipython notebook on linux VM running matplotlib interactive with nbagg.
Last trick: ggplot style with matplotlib.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt plt.style.use('ggplot')
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