Importing seaborn in python script messing up plot style

Question

Attached below are two plots. The only difference in the script that produced them is that the second one had an additional line:

import seaborn as sns

I am not setting any seaborn style yet. Just importing seaborn is changing plot style though, even in plots not using seaborn. Is there any way I can import seaborn (to be used in other plots), and not have the style changed for plots that do not use it?

Maybe this will help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26413185/how-to-recover-matplotlib-defaults-after-setting-stylesheet. Basically, `seaborn` has its own `rcparams` and will override `matplotlib` default. Manually revert it back to `matplotlib` default after `import seaborn` is required. — CT Zhu, Sep 06 '15 at 04:32
http://stanford.edu/~mwaskom/software/seaborn/installing.html#importing-seaborn — mwaskom, Sep 06 '15 at 19:48

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 06 '15 at 05:49

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Check this

import seaborn.apionly as sns or from seaborn.apionly import lmplot

http://stanford.edu/~mwaskom/software/seaborn/whatsnew.html

answered Sep 06 '15 at 05:49

Ibrahim Buamod

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Importing seaborn in python script messing up plot style

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