Plot is duplicated with repeated calls to plt.show()

The issue names no source files or tests. First reproduce the repeated plt.show() behavior with the %matplotlib ipympl backend on the reported Jupyter and Python versions, then compare it with the default backend. Done means repeated show() calls no longer duplicate the existing plot output.

Describe the issue

When I use the "%matplotlib ipympl" backend and display a plot with plt.show(), it works fine, but that plot is displayed again for every future call to plt.show(). The expected behavior is for show() to not repeat the plot output. This occurs with a fresh Anaconda (2024.10-1) installation of Python (3.12.7). This does not happen with default backend.

Versions

 3.12.7 | packaged by Anaconda, Inc. | (main, Oct  4 2024, 08:22:19) [Clang 14.0.6 ]
ipympl version: 0.9.6
Selected Jupyter core packages...
IPython          : 8.30.0
ipykernel        : 6.29.5
ipywidgets       : 8.1.5
jupyter_client   : 8.6.0
jupyter_core     : 5.7.2
jupyter_server   : 2.14.1
jupyterlab       : 4.2.5
nbclient         : 0.8.0
nbconvert        : 7.16.4
nbformat         : 5.10.4
notebook         : 7.2.2
qtconsole        : 5.6.0
traitlets        : 5.14.3
usage: jupyter [-h] [--version] [--config-dir] [--data-dir] [--runtime-dir]
               [--paths] [--json] [--debug]
               [subcommand]

Jupyter: Interactive Computing

positional arguments:
  subcommand     the subcommand to launch

options:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  --version      show the versions of core jupyter packages and exit
  --config-dir   show Jupyter config dir
  --data-dir     show Jupyter data dir
  --runtime-dir  show Jupyter runtime dir
  --paths        show all Jupyter paths. Add --json for machine-readable
                 format.
  --json         output paths as machine-readable json
  --debug        output debug information about paths

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troubleshoot trust

Jupyter command `jupyter-nbextension` not found.

I believe that last error is expected for notebook>7, but I'm not certain.