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Jupyter Notebooks

  • Combines markdown and python code to create notebooks while running python interactively
  • Notebooks can be created either as .ipynb (standard notebooks) or as .py (using the # %% annotation)

Kernel

  • The IPython kernel (ipykernel package) is the Python execution backend for Jupyter
  • To work with Jupyter Notebooks you need an environment with the jupyter package setup (such as the Anaconda environment)
pip install ipykernel

Vscode

  • On VScode, the extension ms-toolsai.jupyter is required
  • Ctrl + Enter to run the cell
  • .py annotations
  • # %%: python code
  • # %% [markdown]: markdown