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This is a Python-specific PyCharm IDE question regarding the viewing of resulting output plots (in this case, from the Seaborn library). I am looking for a more user-friendly form of displaying my plots external to creating a new window (then exiting that window and opening the next window...) every time I want to view my output plots. In this case, I would also like to avoid any sort of web-dependent output. An example of the incredibly ugly and down-right brutal way in which I currently generate then view plots is as follows: 

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
## plot plot plot
plt.show()

I also put myself through this in other viz libraries such as matplotlib. While I am aware of the sequential output formatting of Jupyter NoteBooks, I prefer working through PyCharm's environment and would like any answers to be geared toward the PyCharm IDE. Any and all suggestions are certainly welcome. Ideally, I will be provided the most sufficient way to view my plots across any library, but library-specific answers are absolutely welcome as well.

Scott Mermelstein
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  • seaborn plots are matplotlib plots, so I'm going to switch the tags – Paul H Feb 28 '17 at 16:04
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    what do you mean by brutal? – Paul H Feb 28 '17 at 16:08
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    specifically, it looks like you might get what you want by doing `plt.show(block=False)`. Note, if you want fine control over your plot windows, run your own GUI. I use PyQt and it works great at opening and controlling as many matplotlib windows as I want. I think this simpler method is what you're asking for, though. – Scott Mermelstein Feb 28 '17 at 16:19

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