You have to update the package traitlets to traitlets-5.14.3 Indeed traitlets-5.14.1: - contains a bug, trandforming 'png' into {'g', 'n', 'p'} , since (traitlets-5.13.0 ?) - causing endless graphic problems in spyder console. Due to this bug: https://github.com/ipython/traitlets/pull/903 example of method: https://github.com/winpython/winpython/issues/1587#issuecomment-2891921981 ```` pip install --upgrade traitlets ````