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renegademonkey
renegademonkey

Reputation: 467

View plots from remote python interpreter natively in PyCharm (sciview)

I am using a local install of PyCharm Professional on OSX to connect to a remote python interpreter on a Google Cloud DataProc cloud.

It's taken me a while, but now I have nearly everything working - I can interactively execute code on the remote machine, view outputs in the iPython terminal, and even view remote plots locally via x11 forwarding.

The only thing I cannot figure out is how to get PyCharm to display these plots 'natively' (i.e. in the 'SciVew' plot window). I miss this as it keeps a history of old plots.

Any idea why my remote plots are only showing in a separate xQuartz window and not natively?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1922

Answers (1)

kdbanman
kdbanman

Reputation: 10557

TL;DR Run your project in debug mode once. Plots will appear. Then you can resume running the project in normal mode after doing the debug trick once.

SciView plot brokenness with remote interpreters appears to be related to a PyCharm bug. But there is a workaround.

It is sufficient to run initially your python project in the debug mode or in "Edit configurations" untag "Run with Python Console" before the first run. Remote plots will appear in SciView. Then you can again undo your configuration changes by tagging "Run with Python Console" and remote plots will still work.

Some people start an x-forwarding ssh session in parallel, but x-forwarding is notoriously unpleasant and unreliable, so I wouldn't advise it.

Upvotes: 1

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