Cannot display figures when running from terminal/REPL

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I regularly use a REPL or a terminal to run Python code.
Currently, it is not possible to display your charts in a browser tab when running code from a terminal.
In plotly, you can call fig.show(), and the library will automatically detect that it is not running in an IPython notebook and will open the figure in a browser window.

Here is a workaround that would be relatively easy to add:

import time
import tempfile
from pathlib import Path
import webbrowser

def show_xy(chart, **kwargs):
    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as temp_dir:
        # Saves chart to a temporary HTML file
        file_name = Path(temp_dir).joinpath("fig.html")
        chart.to_html(file_name, **kwargs)
        # Opens new browser tab with the chart.
        webbrowser.open("file://" + str(file_name.absolute()), new=2)
        # Makes sure the file is not deleted before the browser loads it.
        time.sleep(2)

It is also possible to detect whether the code is being run in a notebook. Here is tqdm's code to handle this.