Run pythoncode without returning a plot

[dflvunoooooo]

Is it possible to specify a preset, which does not expect a plot of some kind? I would like to use python to calculate values returned from previous plots and return those results to latex.

[dflvunoooooo]

As a workaround one could make the plot very, very small, with

    plt.rcParams.update({  
        "figure.figsize": "0.0001, 0.0001", 
    })

I tryed to use the package pythontex for this, but it is horrible complicated to use. robust-externalize is far easier :)

[tobiasBora]

Ahah please don't use your dirty small figure ^^ Sure, just use do not include pdf like in:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{robust-externalize}

\begin{document}

\begin{CacheMeCode}{python, do not include pdf}
  import math
  myvalue = math.sqrt(37)
  write_to_out(r"\gdef\myvalue{" + str(myvalue) + r"}")
\end{CacheMeCode}

The value we computed via the above python code is \myvalue.

\end{document}

[dflvunoooooo]

Yeah, it was a dirty workaround :) Thank you!