title: How to pop up an interactive matplotlib figure in IPython?
body: <p>Currently, all my figures are inline. I wish to read the coordinates of my mouse locations in an interactive plot.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14261903/how-can-i-open-the-interactive-matplotlib-window-in-ipython-notebook">This answer here</a> </p>
  
  <pre><code>In [2]: %pylab inline 
  In [3]: plot(...)
  
  In [4]: %pylab qt  # wx, gtk, osx or tk
  In [5]: plot(...) 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>does not work for me.</p>
  
  <p>How to pop up an interactive matplotlib figure in IPython?</p>
  
  <p>I am using Window 7 as OS.</p>