How to see plotly graphs in Pycharm?

Question

I see the following renderers are available:

Default renderer: 'browser'
    Available renderers:
        ['plotly_mimetype', 'jupyterlab', 'nteract', 'vscode',
         'notebook', 'notebook_connected', 'kaggle', 'azure', 'colab',
         'json', 'png', 'jpeg', 'jpg', 'svg', 'pdf', 'browser',
         'firefox', 'chrome', 'chromium', 'iframe', 'iframe_connected',
         'sphinx_gallery']

but I don't see how I can get Pycharm to show the output, in the IDE, like when I do graphs with Matplotlib.

how can this be done?

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Edit:

This is the code I use, sample from plotly:

fig = go.Figure(
    data=[go.Bar(y=[2, 1, 3])],
    layout_title_text="test"
)
fig.show()

This will open a browser tab to show the graph while run in the Pycharm debugger.

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Edit2:

I see a similar question, from a year ago, with no solution:

Plotly chart is not displayed in PyCharm

Answer 1

With Plotly.py version 4, it should be as simple as calling fig.show() with the svg renderer

Answer 2

Follow the below steps:

• right click and select "Run file in python console"
• after that browser will be opened with graph output

See screenshot below:

Pycharm

Answer 3

The steps below work for me with PyCharm 2019.2 on macOs Mojave using iPython notebooks from within PyCharm.

I believe that this should work on other operating systems as well with other recent versions of PyCharm supporting Jupyter notebooks as well.

I am using conda for package and environment management but this should work with other tools as well e.g. pip or pipenv (given that orca is installed standalone)

Here are my steps:

Create and activate conda environment:

• $ conda create -n pycharm-plotly python
• $ conda activate pycharm-plotly

Install Plotly 4.0 and its dependencies as per the plotly.py's GitHub README for Jupyter Notebook Support

• $ conda install -c plotly plotly==4.0.0
• $ conda install "notebook>=5.3" "ipywidgets>=7.5"

In addition, I found that "Plotly Orca" is required for this to work:

• $ conda install -c plotly plotly-orca psutil requests

Please note that the above works with both "Configured Server" and "Managed Server" from within PyCharm for .ipynb file extensions using the following sample code:

#%%
import plotly.graph_objects as go
import plotly.io as pio

pio.renderers.default = 'png'

fig = go.Figure(
    data=[go.Bar(y=[2, 1, 3])],
    layout_title_text="A Figure Displayed with fig.show()"
)
fig.show();

Additional Notes:

• I believe that Plotly's plot rendering doesn't work with "plain" Python files in PyCharm's Scientific mode the same way as it works for Matplotlib or Seaborn.