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Running Jupyter notebooks inside Visual Studio Code is also pretty convenient. Just create a file with .ipymb extension, open it and install suggested packages

Running Jupyter notebooks inside Visual Studio Code is also pretty convenient. Just create a file with .ipymb extension, open it and install suggested packages. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/datascience/jupyter-notebooks https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/datascience/jupyter-noteb...

jhrmnn 4y ago
Indeed. It’s hard to beat the IDE concept here. Especially given the unique features of VS Code like remote development and dev containers.
wanderingmind 4y ago
No,its better to create a notebook with .py extension and use light Percent format for cells. This creates a text file notebook that can be git diff'd
- davidktr 4y ago
  Absolutely. You can always export it as .ipynb. You have now the full power of an IDE (with Pylint, Pytest, Black etc.) at hand.
- abdullahkhalids 4y ago
  I don't know about git, but github is able to do smart diffs with .ipynb files.
- rolandog 4y ago
  This! And Spyder can work as a jupyter notebook by evaluating on a cell-by-cell basis.
- mastazi 4y ago
  > light Percent format For reference https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/jupyter-support-py https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/jupyter-support-py https://jupytext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples.html https://jupytext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples.html https://jupytext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/formats.html#the-light-format https://jupytext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/formats.html#the-l... https://jupytext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/formats.html#the-percent-format https://jupytext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/formats.html#the-p...
  - IshKebab 4y ago
    One of Matlab's best features.
- levesque 4y ago
  Notebooks are complex because they allow you to mix different cell types and keep outputs. That's not a notebook.
- saboot 4y ago
  The python ecosystem is moving towards the MyST format for jupyter notebooks to solve this issue, https://jupyterbook.org/en/stable/content/myst.html https://jupyterbook.org/en/stable/content/myst.html
sureglymop 4y ago
I think there is also a Jupytext extension so that they can just be saved as markdown files.
- enriquto 4y ago
  Or even better: as plain python files, whose comment paragraphs are interpreted as markdown cells. Thus you have just one file notebook.py that you can run directly with the python interpreter, open it with a text editor, or open it with the browser and edit/run it like a notebook. Jupytext is fantastic! Why this is not core functionality of jupyter is beyond me.

jhrmnn 4y ago

Indeed. It’s hard to beat the IDE concept here. Especially given the unique features of VS Code like remote development and dev containers.

wanderingmind 4y ago

No,its better to create a notebook with .py extension and use light Percent format for cells. This creates a text file notebook that can be git diff'd

davidktr 4y ago
Absolutely. You can always export it as .ipynb. You have now the full power of an IDE (with Pylint, Pytest, Black etc.) at hand.
abdullahkhalids 4y ago
I don't know about git, but github is able to do smart diffs with .ipynb files.
rolandog 4y ago
This! And Spyder can work as a jupyter notebook by evaluating on a cell-by-cell basis.
mastazi 4y ago
> light Percent format For reference https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/jupyter-support-py https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/jupyter-support-py https://jupytext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples.html https://jupytext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples.html https://jupytext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/formats.html#the-light-format https://jupytext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/formats.html#the-l... https://jupytext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/formats.html#the-percent-format https://jupytext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/formats.html#the-p...
- IshKebab 4y ago
  One of Matlab's best features.
levesque 4y ago
Notebooks are complex because they allow you to mix different cell types and keep outputs. That's not a notebook.
saboot 4y ago
The python ecosystem is moving towards the MyST format for jupyter notebooks to solve this issue, https://jupyterbook.org/en/stable/content/myst.html https://jupyterbook.org/en/stable/content/myst.html

sureglymop 4y ago

I think there is also a Jupytext extension so that they can just be saved as markdown files.

enriquto 4y ago
Or even better: as plain python files, whose comment paragraphs are interpreted as markdown cells. Thus you have just one file notebook.py that you can run directly with the python interpreter, open it with a text editor, or open it with the browser and edit/run it like a notebook. Jupytext is fantastic! Why this is not core functionality of jupyter is beyond me.