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Closing a matplotlib figure in Pycharm

I'd like to plot a figure using matplotlib using PyCharm, show the figure for a few seconds, and then close the plot window.
After a simple search I've got the following code. This works when Python is run in IDLE/terminal.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
plt.imshow(np.zeros((256,256)))
plt.show(block=False)
plt.pause(10)
plt.close('all')
However plt.close('all') doesn't seem to close any plot windows produced by PyCharm.
How can I close plot windows produced by PyCharm programmatically? The question had been asked (Close a figure - PyCharm ), but the accepted solution doesn't work.

I guess you use the SciView. So you need to change the setting in the pycharm.
Settings | Tools | Python Scientific | Show Plots in Toolwindow - box has to be unticked to back to the usual matplotlib figure window
After this, try again.

Seaborn Plot doesn't show up

I am creating a bar chart with seaborn, and it's not generating any sort of error, but nothing happens either.
This is the code I have:
import pandas
import numpy
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn
data = pandas.read_csv('fy15crime.csv', low_memory = False)
seaborn.countplot(x="primary_type", data=data)
plt.xlabel('crime')
plt.ylabel('amount')
seaborn.plt.show()
I added "seaborn.plt.show() in an effort to have it show up, but it isn't working still.

You should place this line somewhere in the top cell in Jupyter to enable inline plotting:
%matplotlib inline

It's simply plt.show() you were close. No need for seaborn

I was using PyCharm using a standard Python file and I had the best luck with the following:
Move code to a Jupyter notebook (which can you do inside of PyCharm by right clicking on the project and choosing new - Jupyter Notebook)
If running a chart that takes a lot of processing time it might not have been obvious before, but in Jupyter mode you can easily see when the cell has finished processing.

ggplot not showing inside ipython notebook output area, rather popping up

I'm using IPython notebooks to save my results and perhaps to share code including graphics. I am using ggplot right now. But I cannot get ggplot to plot inside the notebook output area. It always gives me a pop-up window that shows the plot. I don't know how to save it along with the notebook easily. Is there something I need to configure to make that happen? "%matplotlib inline" I saw in a ggplot tutorial that below code should do it. What am I missing?
My code:
plot = ggplot(my_dataframe, aes("x")) + geom_histogram()
print plot

I got my answer elsewhere. It worked like a charm!
%pylab inline

SVG rendering issues using iPython inline plots

when I use inline plots in iPython (QtConsole), the first plot looks (more or less) fine, but then it gets weirder and weirder. When I plot something several times (so plot, see it displayed, plot again, see output etc.), it looks like it is being overlaid with the skewed previous picture. So after plotting a diagonal line (x=y) 4 times in a row I get something like this
If i right click and export it as svg everything looks good
(Exported PNG picture remains wrecked as the first one).
I guess the problem is similar to https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/1866, but I didn't got the upshot of the discussion (it got too technical and complicated for me to follow).
Is there any solution or work around for this issue?
I'm using
python 2.7
matplotlib 1.4.1
IPython 2.1.0
Here is a working example:
%matplotlib inline
% config InlineBackend.figure_format = 'svg'
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
a=range(10)
fig,ax=plt.subplots()
ax.plot(a,a)
ax.axis('off')
if you remove plt.axis('off') line, weird things happen only outside of the axis box.
P.S. Originally I encountered this problem in connection with drawing graphs with networkx. If I use draw from networkx this problem does not occur. If I use draw_networkx, same as described above happens. That might point to the core of the problem... I'm trying to figure out what line of code makes one work better than the other...

After tinkering around with the draw and draw_networkx functions from networkx module, I found the workaround which makes the difference between draw and draw_networkx in this case.
Adding fig.set_facecolor('w') overlays whatever is in the background, so the new plots are started with a white sheet (but not a blank one, I guess).
So new working example is:
%matplotlib inline
% config InlineBackend.figure_format = 'svg'
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
a=range(10)
fig,ax=plt.subplots()
fig.set_facecolor('w')
ax.plot(a,a)
ax.axis('off')

matplotlib draw showing nothing

I'm using python's matplotlib to do some contours using contour and contourf functions. They all work fine when using show, but when I try to use draw() inside a method, I get the matplotlib window but not graph. The show() call will be done much later on the code and in a different method, and I would like to show one graph at the moment when it's done with draw(), not having to wait until the much later show(). What I'm doing wrong?
Thanks.

Have you turned interactive mode on using ion()? The following works for me on OSX, using the Tk backend and running from the shell's command line:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.ion()
plt.figure()
for i in range(10):
plt.plot([i], [i], 'o')
plt.draw()
raw_input("done >>")
That is, as it does each loop, you see the plot change (i.e., it gets redrawn) as each point is added. Here, btw, if I instead call plt.ioff(), I don't see the figure or any updates.

IIRC ,You should be able call fig.show() multiple times. Also, check out using ipython (ipython -pylab) and http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/shell.html