VSCode's Python Interactive mode is AMAZING!

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

do I even need pyCharm then?

Nice and easy explanation... good work mate

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.

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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

VERY useful, thank you.

Thank you for the video!

Thanks for this video, Jack! Thanks a lot!

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

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

Thanks !!..nicely explained

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.

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.

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

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

This video changed my Python life, thx

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

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

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

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

How do you escape out of the interactive cell?

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

This is so fricking sublime.

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

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

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

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.

Bro this is dope af

I wish I could type that fast…

Thanks a lot!
That's really cool!

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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!

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.

Very nice video.
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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!

I actually never used this to my benefit as well, but why should someone use this instead of a .ipynb file?

update: interactive mode does not generate svg images now and it is advised to use %matplotlib widget or something similar instead

# %% but nothing happened?

I actually used this by accident one time and got a very silly bug where tabs where getting deleted when run on the interactive window, I will try to give it a try any way because I feel notebooks tend to create lots of repetitive code

how did you call plot without importing matplotlib.pyplot as plt???

so, Rstudio?

this is amazing. isnt this a jupyter notebook killer basically?

i dont get why you didnt mentioned we still need the Jupyter extension smh. had to figure out why it wasnt working