Why do pint Quantities display differently in QtConsole than in an iPython console and how do I change it?

Question

So, I use the pint units package and would like values displayed in the console to be standard fixed width font, not a 'rendered' display. I use Spyder IDE which uses QtConsole and displays either html or latex png. The following screen shots illustrate.

I don't want this:

I want this:

Does anyone know how I can make QtConsole display as standard fixed width font?

Answer 1

Okay, I found the solution. It turns out there is a configuration setting that will turn off rich text in QtConsole. Adding the line

c.JupyterQtConsoleApp.plain = True

to the jupyter_qtconsole_config.py file located in ~/.jupyter (on my Mac) solved the issue.