fix to stop weird stuff happening under Jupyter for similarly named figures

petercorke · petercorke · commit a0eaed6ae93f · 2023-05-01T15:36:28.000+10:00
diff --git a/roboticstoolbox/backends/PyPlot/PyPlot2.py b/roboticstoolbox/backends/PyPlot/PyPlot2.py
@@ -68,8 +68,9 @@ def launch(self, name=None, limits=None, **kwargs):
 
         labels = ["X", "Y"]
 
-        if name is not None:
-            self.fig = plt.figure(name)
+        if name is not None and not _isnotebook():
+            # jupyter does weird stuff when figures have the same name
+            self.fig = plt.figure()
         else:
             self.fig = plt.figure()
 
