What Is a Jupyter Magic

Magic commands are special commands that can help you with running and analyzing data in your notebook. They add a special functionality that is not straight forward to achieve with python code or jupyter notebook interface. Magic commands are easy to spot within the code.

What is a magic command in python?

Magic commands are enhancements added over the normal python code and these commands are provided by the IPython kernel. These magic commands are usually prefixed by a “%” character. These commands are basically added to solve common problems we face and also provide few shortcuts to your code.

What are Matplotlib magic functions?

421. %matplotlib is a magic function in IPython. I’ll quote the relevant documentation here for you to read for convenience: IPython has a set of predefined ‘magic functions’ that you can call with a command line style syntax. There are two kinds of magics, line-oriented and cell-oriented.