Jupytext offers one way of accessing your notebook from the IDE. But it is not the only way. Spyder has a long history of offering an interactive mode on scripts with double percent cell markers. Hydrogen is a plugin for the Atom editor that lets you run these scripts interactively. And the two editors that I most use, PyCharm and Visual Studio Code, now let you open your .ipynb notebooks directly in the IDE!
I was curious to see how well that works. Is the experience of using notebooks in those IDEs better than in Jupyter? Will I make the switch? In this article, I describe my current workflow with notebooks, then I compare it to what PyCharm and Visual Studio Code make possible now.
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