In Spyder, plot using Matplotlib with interactive zoom, etc

Question

I\'ve recently switched from Enthought Canopy to Anaconda and am using the Spyder IDE. I\'ve noticed that when I plot some data,

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Answer 1

Even though it's an old question, my solution to the same issue without using the GUI.

Plot only in console:

%matplotlib inline 
plt.plot([1, 2, 3, 4])
plt.ylabel('some numbers')

Going back to plot outside console:

%matplotlib qt5
plt.plot([1, 2, 3, 4])
plt.ylabel('some numbers')

There was no need to restart my spyder or kernal. Session info:

spyder 3.3.2
python 3.6.8
windows 10.