Question: I am working on Caffe framework and using PyCaffe interface. I am using a Python script obtained from converting the IPython Notebook **00-classification.ipynb** for testing the classification by a trained model for ImageNet. But any **get\_ipython()** statement in the script is giving the following error:

```
$ python python/my_test_imagenet.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "python/my_test_imagenet.py", line 23, in <module>
    get_ipython().magic(u'matplotlib inline')

```

In the script, I'm importing the following:

```
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

get_ipython().magic(u'matplotlib inline')

# Make sure that caffe is on the python path:
caffe_root = '/path/to/caffe/'
import sys
sys.path.insert(0, caffe_root + 'python')

import caffe

plt.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = (10, 10)
plt.rcParams['image.interpolation'] = 'nearest'
plt.rcParams['image.cmap'] = 'gray'

import os

# ... Rest of the code...

```

Can someone please help me to resolve this error?

Answer: 
If your intention is to run converted .py file notebook then you should just comment out `get_ipython()` statements. The matlibplot output can't be shown inside console so you would have some work to do . Ideally, iPython shouldn't have generated these statements. You can use following to show plots:

```
plt.show(block=True)

```
Just want to add that converting ipynb file to py having magic functions in your script trigger the same error as well since for instance `%%time` converts to `get_ipython().run_cell_magic('time')`

Why so? [Magic functions](https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/interactive/python-ipython-diff.html?highlight=magics) (magics) are often present in the form of shell-like syntax, but they are python functions under the hood.

The conversion from cell magics to get\_ipython() commands is a part of nbconvert and is required to get a runnable python script, as cell magics are not valid python outside of a notebook cell(things like magics or aliases are turned into function calls)