ob_ipy_startup.py

# either put in startup file or at start of ob-ipython based org
# document.
%matplotlib inline 
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sb
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import math
from scipy.stats import norm
import matplotlib as mpl
mpl.rcParams['axes.facecolor'] = 'white'
mpl.rcParams['axes.edgecolor'] = 'black'
mpl.rcParams['figure.facecolor'] = 'white'
mpl.rcParams['figure.edgecolor'] = 'black'
mpl.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = (12, 8)

import IPython
from tabulate import tabulate

class OrgFormatter(IPython.core.formatters.BaseFormatter):
    def __call__(self, obj):
        try:
            return tabulate(obj, headers='keys',
                            tablefmt='orgtbl', showindex='always')
        except:
            return None

ip = get_ipython()
ip.display_formatter.formatters['text/org'] = OrgFormatter()