From 2fb8f6a559aeaa9e6e45d468e76f5b8d5d86994a 2017-08-26 14:33:23
From: Thomas A Caswell <tcaswell@gmail.com>
Date: 2017-08-26 14:33:23
Subject: [PATCH] MNT: add 'widget' as alias for ipympl

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diff --git a/IPython/core/pylabtools.py b/IPython/core/pylabtools.py
index 78158a2..e3ec29e 100644
--- a/IPython/core/pylabtools.py
+++ b/IPython/core/pylabtools.py
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ backends = {'tk': 'TkAgg',
             'agg': 'agg',
             'inline': 'module://ipykernel.pylab.backend_inline',
             'ipympl': 'module://ipympl.backend_nbagg',
-}
+            'widget': 'module://ipympl.backend_nbagg',
+            }
 
 # We also need a reverse backends2guis mapping that will properly choose which
 # GUI support to activate based on the desired matplotlib backend.  For the