🔒 Cannot get interactive plots to display in VSCode using any $matplotlib commands

[median trout]

I'm trying to plot data with pyqtgraph and add an interactive widget that allows me to hover over the graph to see the timestamp. When I run the code, vscode refuses to display an interactive plot, nor does it open in another window. I'm using a jupyter notebook (.ipynb) inside vscode so I thought the interactivity would work. I've created a new env just with the core dependencies but it still doesn't show any widgets. I also installed several packages with pip but when I do which <package> it doesn't find it, but it's in the list when I do pip list.

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@median trout

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[median trout]

import pytplot
import pyqtgraph as pg


window = pg.GraphicsLayoutWidget()

def text_window():

    # Set up plotting window
    window.setWindowTitle('Interactive Window')
    plot = window.addPlot()

    # Add the text item (with crazy HTML inserted, this was the textitem example on pyqtgraph's website)
    textitem = pg.TextItem(html='<div style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #FFF;">This is the</span><br><span style="color: #FF0; font-size: 32pt;">PEAK</span></div>', anchor=(-0.3,0.5), border='w', fill=(0, 0, 255, 100))
    plot.addItem(textitem)
    textitem.setPos(1,1)

    # Define what the plot will do when the user hovers over a new time
    def update(time, name):
        textitem.setText(str(time))

    # Register to update function above to pytplot
    pytplot.hover_time.register_listener(update)

pytplot.store_data("test_data", data={'x':[100,200,300,400,500], 'y':[1,2,3,4,5]})

pytplot.tplot("test_data", extra_functions=[text_window])

this is what shows up when i run the code. no widget to be found

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