#demo code for converting a matplotlib fig to a plotly div for sticking into an html file import pdb from plotly.offline import init_notebook_mode, plot_mpl import matplotlib.pyplot as plt init_notebook_mode() fig = plt.figure() x = [10, 15, 20, 25, 30] y = [100, 250, 200, 150, 300] plt.plot(x, y, "o") pdb.set_trace() type(fig) image_div=plot_mpl(fig, output_type='div') #create a dummy file with yattag library from yattag import Doc doc,tag,text=Doc().tagtext() doc.asis('') with tag('html'): with tag('body'): doc.asis(image_div) html_string=doc.getvalue() outf=open('example.html','w') outf.write(html_string)