How to save a Seaborn plot into a file

Question

I tried the following code  test seaborn py    import matplotlib matplotlib use  Agg   import matplotlib pyplot as plt matplotlib style use  ggplot   import seaborn as sns sns set   df   sns load dataset  iris   sns plot   sns pairplot df  hue  species   size 2 5  fig   sns plot get figure   fig savefig  output png    sns plt show     But I get this error     Traceback  most recent call last     File  test searborn py   line 11  in  lt module gt      fig   sns plot get figure   AttributeError   PairGrid  object has no attribute  get figure    I expect the final output png will exist and look like this     How can I resolve the problem

User · Answer

The suggested solutions are incompatible with Seaborn 0.8.1

giving the following errors because the Seaborn interface has changed:

AttributeError: 'AxesSubplot' object has no attribute 'fig'
When trying to access the figure

AttributeError: 'AxesSubplot' object has no attribute 'savefig'
when trying to use the savefig directly as a function

The following calls allow you to access the figure (Seaborn 0.8.1 compatible):

swarm_plot = sns.swarmplot(...)
fig = swarm_plot.get_figure()
fig.savefig(...)

as seen previously in this answer.

UPDATE: I have recently used PairGrid object from seaborn to generate a plot similar to the one in this example. In this case, since GridPlot is not a plot object like, for example, sns.swarmplot, it has no get_figure() function. It is possible to directly access the matplotlib figure by

fig = myGridPlotObject.fig

Like previously suggested in other posts in this thread.

User · Answer

You should just be able to use the savefig method of sns plot directly   sns plot savefig  output png     For clarity with your code if you did want to access the matplotlib figure that sns plot resides in then you can get it directly with  fig   sns plot fig   In this case there is no get figure method as your code assumes

User · Answer

Remove the get figure and just use sns plot savefig  output png   df   sns load dataset  iris   sns plot   sns pairplot df  hue  species   height 2 5  sns plot savefig  quot output png quot

User · Answer

Some of the above solutions did not work for me  The  fig attribute was not found when I tried that and I was unable to use  savefig   directly  However  what did work was   sns plot figure savefig  output png     I am a newer Python user  so I do not know if this is due to an update  I wanted to mention it in case anybody else runs into the same issues as I did

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I use distplot and get figure to save picture successfully   sns hist   sns distplot df train  SalePrice    fig   sns hist get figure   fig savefig  hist png

User · Answer

Fewer lines for 2019 searchers   import matplotlib pyplot as plt import seaborn as sns  df   sns load dataset  iris   sns plot   sns pairplot df  hue  species   height 2 5  plt savefig  output png     UPDATE NOTE  size was changed to height

User · Answer

You would get an error for using sns figure savefig  output png   in seaborn 0 8 1   Instead use   import seaborn as sns  df   sns load dataset  iris   sns plot   sns pairplot df  hue  species   size 2 5  sns plot savefig  output png

User · Answer

Just FYI  the below command worked in seaborn 0 8 1 so I guess the initial answer is still valid    sns plot   sns pairplot data  hue  species   size 3  sns plot savefig  output png

User · Answer

Its also possible to just create a matplotlib figure object and then use plt savefig        from matplotlib import pyplot as plt import seaborn as sns import pandas as pd  df   sns load dataset  iris   plt figure     Push new figure on stack sns plot   sns pairplot df  hue  species   size 2 5  plt savefig  output png     Save that figure

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This works for me   import seaborn as sns import matplotlib pyplot as plt  matplotlib inline  sns factorplot x  holiday  data data kind  count  size 5 aspect 1  plt savefig  holiday-vs-count png

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