matplotlib.pyplot.figure.show method displays figure two times

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#482 opened on Aug 11, 2022 1 comment 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Assessment

Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Newbie friendliness: 25/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Needs clarification
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: jupyter, jupyter-notebook, python
Domain: data-visualization, frontend

Research direction

Start by reproducing the duplicate display in JupyterLab 3.4.4 with Python 3.10.4, ipympl 0.8.7, and the listed Jupyter packages, using matplotlib.pyplot.figure.show. Done means the same figure appears only once; the issue names no source file or test, so locating the relevant implementation and regression coverage is part of the work.

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Description

Describe the issue

matplotlib.pyplot.figure.show method displays figure two times.

Versions

 3.10.4 (main, Mar 31 2022, 08:41:55) [GCC 7.5.0]
ipympl version: 0.8.7
Selected Jupyter core packages...
IPython          : 8.4.0
ipykernel        : 6.9.1
ipywidgets       : 7.6.5
jupyter_client   : 7.2.2
jupyter_core     : 4.10.0
jupyter_server   : 1.18.1
jupyterlab       : 3.4.4
nbclient         : 0.5.13
nbconvert        : 6.4.4
nbformat         : 5.3.0
notebook         : 6.4.12
qtconsole        : not installed
traitlets        : 5.1.1
Known nbextensions:
  config dir: /home/honek/.jupyter/nbconfig
    notebook section
      [--sys-prefix  enabled 
      - Validating: problems found:
        - require?  X [--sys-prefix
      jupyter-threejs/extension  enabled 
      - Validating: problems found:
        - require?  X jupyter-threejs/extension
  config dir: /home/honek/anaconda3/envs/ipympl_test/etc/jupyter/nbconfig
    notebook section
      jupyter-matplotlib/extension  enabled 
      - Validating: OK
      jupyter-js-widgets/extension  enabled 
      - Validating: OK
JupyterLab v3.4.4
/home/honek/anaconda3/envs/ipympl_test/share/jupyter/labextensions
        jupyter-matplotlib v0.10.5 enabled OK
        @jupyter-widgets/jupyterlab-manager v3.0.0 enabled OK (python, jupyterlab_widgets)

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