using Spyder 4 which is no longer displaying the Plots pane above the console. I have ensured that the backend is set to Inline but the pane still does not show up.
If anyone knows any solutions, it would be greatly appreciated.
(Spyder maintainer here) You need to go the menu View > Panes and activate the entry corresponding to the Plots pane.
I have been running into a trouble whereby Spyder IPython console is not producing Matplotlib figures as desired. I thought initially that there is something wrong in my code since jupyter notebook gives me the same wrong figures. However, when running the script in Spyder using external terminal the figures are produced as desired. Also, when I run the code in VSC the correct figures are displayed.
So the only option I am left with in Spyder is to use the external terminal to execute the code. However, it is quite a pain every time to run some codes and then manually close the terminal.
I would like to know if there is a way to permanently attach the external terminal inside Spyder? I hate the IPython console when it comes to plotting matplotlib figures!!
(Spyder maintainer here) Sorry but there's no way to dock an external Python terminal inside Spyder.
I have read tons of questions on this, but I am still baffled. I'm running Anaconda in Scientific Linux. I launche a console a type ipython qtconsole.
My script.py is something like
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10])
plt.show()
I type run script.py from the qtconsole, and the program just sits and does nothing. What am I doing wrong? I have been using the qtconsole for running my scripts, maybe it's better for really being interactive with and I should be running my scripts some other way?
Any general advice on workflow would be very helpful here. When should I use python script.py, when should I use ipython script.py, and when should I use the qtconsole, etc...?
This seems like a Magic Function problem
More specifically %matplotlib. %matplotlib inline will show it within the browser, or you can replace inline with whatever you feel better for your use.
I am working in python and using Anaconda with Spyder and I need to plot a scatter plot in a part of the code I am working on. The plot is just fine but is drawn in the console itself and the size is quite small for my needs.
My question is, how can I plot it in another window outside the ipython console? I already tried changing some of the setting like changing Graphics setting in ipython from inline to QT to tkinter. Nothing seems to work.
Any helpful suggestions?
you can just save %matplotlib qt in a .py file and you can start ipython using:
ipython -i myfile.py
When I use Matplotlib to plot some graphs, it is usually fine for the default inline drawing. However, when I draw some 3D graphs, I'd like to have them in a separate window so that interactions like rotation can be enabled. Can I configure in Python code which figure to display inline and which one to display in a new window?
I know that in Spyder, click Tools, Preferences, Ipython Console, Graphics and under Graphics Backend select “automatic” instead of “inline”. However, this make all the figures to be in new windows. It can be messy when I have a lot of plots. So I want only those 3D plot to be in new windows, but all the other 2D plots remain inline. Is it possible at all?
Thanks!
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%matplotlib qt
when you want graphs in a separate window and
%matplotlib inline
when you want an inline plot
Go to
Tools >> Preferences >> IPython console >> Graphics >> Backend:Inline, change "Inline" to "Automatic", click "OK"
Reset the kernel at the console, and the plot will appear in a separate window
Magic commands such as
%matplotlib qt
work in the iPython console and Notebook, but do not work within a script.
In that case, after importing:
from IPython import get_ipython
use:
get_ipython().run_line_magic('matplotlib', 'inline')
for inline plotting of the following code, and
get_ipython().run_line_magic('matplotlib', 'qt')
for plotting in an external window.
Edit: solution above does not always work, depending on your OS/Spyder version
Anaconda issue on GitHub. Setting the Graphics Backend to Automatic (as indicated in another answer: Tools >> Preferences >> IPython console >> Graphics --> Automatic) solves the problem for me.
Then, after a Console restart, one can switch between Inline and External plot windows using the get_ipython() command, without having to restart the console.
I have set the IPython console backend set to Automatic in the Spyder preferences.
In my scripts, I can now use switch_backend as either
plt.switch_backend('module://ipykernel.pylab.backend_inline') or plt.switch_backend('Qt5Agg') before each new plot, to make it either inline or separate/interactive.
(Tested with Spyder 4.2.2.)
If you want to look at just 1 or 2 charts you can also try manually undocking them in the plot window. So on the top right corner window
select the 'plots' tab
click the button with 3 horizontal bars
select 'undock'
It'll open the plot in a new window. When you close the window, it docks back.