jupyter "%matplotlib notebook" not showing plot

Question

I want to create a notebook with interactive matplotlib plots. I can show static plots (%matplotlib inline works fine) but with %matplotlib notebook no figure shows up, not within the notebook nor as a pop-up window.

conda installed ipython 5.1.0, jupyter 4.0.6 matplotlib 2.0 ('2.0.0b4+2344.g7b27a1b')

here is the notebook https://github.com/fedhere/notebookTests/blob/master/mplnotebook_test.ipynb

what am I doing wrong? thank you

Answer 1

The issue is with matplotlib 2 beta & rc versions. I thought I had tested it with matplotlib1.5 as well, but I had still loaded matplotlib2. I am reporting it there.