extipy – Debug your Python script with a Jupyter notebook

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Sometimes I'm debugging a Python script which is processing rich text data (e.g. images) and really miss the fact that I don't have access to the capabilities in a Jupyter notebook for displaying that data. So I made a little tool that allows you to insert a breakpoint into your Python script (an IPython kernel) and explore the current state in a Jupyter notebook.

In this way, extipy can be thought of as a rich-text debugger.

Do you know you can achieve the exact same functionality with the vscode's inline code execution in python files and can create jupyter like code cells with '# %%'?

ref: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/jupyter-support-py...

No I’ve never heard of it — will play around with it later!

Thanks for mentioning it!

Okay I tried it out... it's pretty funky. I was expecting to get a fully featured Jupyter notebook, but the Interactive tab is more like a REPL because the "cells" are immutable. You can re-run the cells, which is something. It seems like it's somewhere between a REPL and a notebook.

Though interesting, this tool is unsatisfactory for my workflow - if it was I would have just stopped at using an IPython REPL (not being able to freely edit and manipulate cells is a deal-breaker for me).

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