Make Spyder Matplotlib plots appear in own window

Related: Upgrade Spyder, including beta versions

IPython console in Spyder IDE by default opens Matplotlib plots in the same inline “notebook”.

Make separate Matplotlib figure windows pop up

In Spyder,

Tools → Preferences → Ipython Console → Graphics → Graphics Backend → Backend: “automatic”

Popout figures are much more useful in general because one can

• probe the figure data
• zoom/pan the figure

unlike the static PNGs in the inline Jupyter notebook.

Interactive Matplotlib Jupyter Notebook

%matplotlib inline