OSX How to bring Matplotlib window to the front?

you're call to window.raise_() is from PyQT. Indeed, you can raise the window in this way but you need to:

• set PyQT4 as your backend before you do any other business with matplotlib

And

import matplotlib matplotlib.use('Qt4Agg') 

• Either you fix you import statement (remove the brackets) or save yourself the import and access the window through the figure

with

window = fig.canvas.manager.window 

• Only then you can call window.raise_() and the window will be in front of pycharm.

This works for me from IPython:

from pylab import get_current_fig_manager fm = get_current_fig_manager() fm.show() 

I haven't found a case in which show() doesn't work by itself, though.

[cphlewis] had a great answer. I found myself doing this so often that I def a little function to pop all my windows up to the surface:

def pop_all(): #bring all the figures hiding in the background to the foreground all_figures=[manager.canvas.figure for manager in matplotlib.\ _pylab_helpers.Gcf.get_all_fig_managers()] [fig.canvas.manager.show() for fig in all_figures] return len(all_figures)