title: prevent plot from showing in jupyter notebook
body: <p>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.</p>
  
  <p>A minimal working example for a Jupyter notebook is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>%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)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>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.</p>
  
  <p>Thank you for your time</p>