I didn't know about Thonny, but I teach some Python as well. In VSCode, I tell people to add #%% at the start of their script. Then ctrl-enter will run it in a

I didn't know about Thonny, but I teach some Python as well. In VSCode, I tell people to add #%% at the start of their script. Then ctrl-enter will run it in a nice interactive window with an interpreter below it for "live" debugging. (The Jupyter notebook integration is also working better than before, not sure what I prefer this days)