VSCode's Python Interactive mode is AMAZING!

This is a lifesaver! I'm used to Matlab and recently picked up Python. It's great to check what I'm doing. Thank you!

Very nice video.
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Wow, I didn't know about that. Me too have been using Jupyter a lot, then I switched to a regular step debugger, but the ability to use IPython with debugger is a game changer for me.

is it possible to open the interactive window seperately, to mimic floating windows? Because running out of real estate on one screen

Great video and well explained, subscribed!

but still the graphs are in jpeg and not in SVG format

VScode move between 'cells'? Spyder can do Ctrl+Down to jump to next cells.

Works nicely. It partially replaces the interactive mode gotten by starting python with the option -i, but not quite, because it takes too much space in the buffer. Personally I try to avoid VSC as much as possible because it doesn't respect tradition, but what is to be expected from Microsoft anyways? emacs is for serious programming though. That's the essence of tradition.

Anyone know if it is possible to open the interactive tab in another window, or detach the tab from the workspace?

It's the closest solution to my needs: I'm switching from Atom to VS Code and I'd like to find an equivalent way to run codes below my line script as I'm used to with Hydrogen. Doesn't exist a solution like that for VS Code?

Thanks but you go too fast and you need to emphasize the key steps. Honestly I still not sure how to duplicate wha you did. First how to pop up right interactive panel? 2nd were you using # %% to crest this interactive? Hope you can help me with these? Thanks

Thanks a lot!
That's really cool!

I wish I could type that fast…

Bro this is dope af

Thanks for making this video. I didn't know this feature existed!

As you have pointed out it is amazing and so useful. Especially when you are a relative new comer to Python like myself.

I love Vscode and it just keeps getting better and better.

Can't thank you enough for making this video - this is such an amazing feature! Can't believe I never heard about this before!

I don't know to to setup the intactive mode for vscode.

Is there a "Variable Explorer" available in VSCode as there is in Sypder?

This is so fricking sublime.

Really good overview - thanks for sharing. I've recently switched to VSC from Spyder and I keep discovering new cool features nearly every day!

How do you escape out of the interactive cell?

That is just like a Matlab or Spyder environment, pretty cool

This is insane and a total game changer for my workflow... Thanks a lot!

I followed your setup but sadly my plots were still in .png format.

Thanks! But aren't those features a replica of Spyder???

This video changed my Python life, thx

Wow this is really cool It's! It's very similar to rstudio's Rmarkdown interface!

I type # %% in the python file using visual studio code, but nothing happens / nothing changes / any additional options appear. What do I do wrong? :(

I was trying to get a plot on my vscode for the last 4 hours. I just couldn't figure out what was missing. Thank you so much for this video, you probably saved another 4 hours of mine.

nice but it does not work for me (some info is missing here). I'd have some questions, what vsCode version are you using? once managed to install mumpy and matplotlib within a PowerShell CLI rather, all I got as output for that example: 'plot([0,1,2],[0,1,4])' is: <figure size 432x288 with 1 Axes> but displaying nothing.

Thanks !!..nicely explained

Is there a way to save the outputs inline with the code to a file just like the jupyter notebook?

Very cool workflow!
I was able to also get this working with remote development in a Vagrant/Docker VM.

Thanks for this video, Jack! Thanks a lot!

Thank you for the video!

VERY useful, thank you.

I started out working in anaconda spyder, in which the standard kernel is interactive, and was shocked when I learned that this was not standard behaviour

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To enable 'shift + enter' to send line/selection to interactive window you first have to enable it in settings. This took me forever to figure out why it wasn't working right away.

Jupyter: Send Selection To Interactive Window
When pressing shift+enter, send selected code in a Python file to the Jupyter interactive window as opposed to the Python terminal.

Nice and easy explanation... good work mate

do I even need pyCharm then?

This functionality exists for years in notebooks and jupyterlab - open console along side the notebook.

It is like Spyder. Although Spyder variable explorer is much neater

That's amazing. But it seems that I can only run the interactive mode at the end of the python script, i.e. I can't come back to normal scripting unless I delete all the interactive code.
Is there anyway to select a subset (in the middle) of the script to run interactive mode?

That's awesome man. I have been switching between .py files and notebooks a lot. This is just awesome. THANKS!!

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@Jack Of Some
Does someone know the keyboard shortcut move the cursor from the editor to the console where we can type code?

Thanks for the video! It really helped a lot for a project this semester. Great alternative to dealing with the annoying JSON of .ipynb files when pushing to GitHub.

It's a Spyder feature

Wow even the debugger!
I liked the debugger set up in Eclipse for Java. I didn’t know python had it too in VSCode! This is awesome