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Reenable and fix qtconsole and spyder kernel downstream tests

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
testing-qa

Research direction

Start by examining PR #1349 to identify the three disabled downstream tests, then run the qtconsole and Spyder kernel test suites to reproduce their failures. Done means the three tests are reenabled and their underlying failures are fixed, with the downstream tests passing.

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Description

bug maintenance

PR #1349 temporarily disabled 3 downstream individual test to get CI to green and detect potential new failures.

Those failures should be investigated and properly fixed.

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