FIX: make sure all of the Qt backends map to the qt event loop

tacaswell · tacaswell · commit 9d184baa2f8d · 2021-10-06T20:15:56.000-04:00
diff --git a/IPython/core/pylabtools.py b/IPython/core/pylabtools.py
@@ -41,15 +41,20 @@
 # most part it's just a reverse of the above dict, but we also need to add a
 # few others that map to the same GUI manually:
 backend2gui = dict(zip(backends.values(), backends.keys()))
-# Our tests expect backend2gui to just return 'qt'
-backend2gui['Qt4Agg'] = 'qt'
 # In the reverse mapping, there are a few extra valid matplotlib backends that
 # map to the same GUI support
 backend2gui["GTK"] = backend2gui["GTKCairo"] = "gtk"
 backend2gui["GTK3Cairo"] = "gtk3"
 backend2gui["GTK4Cairo"] = "gtk4"
 backend2gui["WX"] = "wx"
 backend2gui["CocoaAgg"] = "osx"
+# There needs to be a hysteresis here as the new QtAgg Matplotlib backend
+# supports either Qt5 or Qt6 and the IPython qt event loop support Qt4, Qt5,
+# and Qt6.
+backend2gui["QtAgg"] = "qt"
+backend2gui["Qt4Agg"] = "qt"
+backend2gui["Qt5Agg"] = "qt"
+
 # And some backends that don't need GUI integration
 del backend2gui["nbAgg"]
 del backend2gui["agg"]
