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A.5 WritingIPythonNotebooks 217 Executing these statements results in a plot in the browser, see Fig. A.2. It was popular tostart thenotebookbyipython notebook –pylab to importeverything from numpy and matplotlib.pyplotandmake all plots inline, but the –pylab option isnowofficiallydiscouraged18. Ifyouwant thenotebook tobehavemoreas MATLABandnotuse thenpandpltprefix,youcan insteadof thefirst three lines abovewrite%pylab. Fig.A.2 Exampleonan IPythonnotebook 18http://carreau.github.io/posts/10-No-PyLab-Thanks.ipynb.html