["python","matplotlib","jupyter-notebook","figures"]
prevent plot from showing in jupyter notebook

How can I prevent a specific plot to be shown in Jupyter notebook? I have several plots in a notebook but I want a subset of them to be saved to a file and not shown on the notebook as this slows considerably. A minimal working example for a Jupyter notebook is: %matplotlib inline from numpy.random import randn from matplotlib.pyplot import plot, figure a=randn(3) b=randn(3) for i in range(10): fig=figure() plot(b) fname='s%03d.png'%i fig.savefig(fname) if(i%5==0): figure() plot(a) As you can see I have two types of plots, a and b. I want a's to be plotted and shown and I don't want the b plots to be shown, I just want them them to be saved in a file. Hopefully this will speed things a bit and won't pollute my notebook with figures I don't need to see. Thank you for your time
Perhaps just clear the axis, for example: fig = plt.figure() plt.plot(range(10)) fig.savefig("save_file_name.pdf") plt.close() This will not plot the output in inline mode. I can't work out if it is really clearing the data though.