opencv.imshow will cause jupyter notebook crash

Question

I check other question on google or stackoverflow, they are talking about run cv2.imshow in script, but my code run in jupyter notebook.

Here is my configuration:

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Answer 1

The new window that opens up from Jupyter uses the same kernel as notebook. Just add this below to the code and it would work fine.

cv2.waitKey(0)
cv2.destroyAllWindows()