I usually just use the debug console in VScode since I find it so painful now to do any text/code editing without having something like copilot to fix and compl

I usually just use the debug console in VScode since I find it so painful now to do any text/code editing without having something like copilot to fix and complete things for me. You can inspect the contents of variables and immediately evaluate expressions. But there are also iPython notebook viewing extensions for VScode which might be a bit easier if you're new to it.