Users can run code in the "Python Interactive" window

[greazer]

[rchiodo]

This should allow somebody to type in a line (or more) code into the interactive window.

[stevenlis]

@rchiodo if so, would it add the code typed in the interactive window to the corresponding .py file automatically?

[rchiodo]

No, code is not mirrored. It acts more like a terminal. The code you type into the terminal is not mirrored into your file.

We're thinking of putting a button to move the code over (maybe add to bottom or something)

[stevenlis]

It seems this will simulate a more Jupyterish experience. I also suggested a new feature that may improve data scientists' user experience with vscode here.

[rchiodo]

The idea of the terminal input is to allow you enter code that you don't want to save. If you wanted to have it in your python file, you'd just type it there.

[stevenlis]

That makes sense. If it acts like a terminal, one can only add new code after the last cell and cannot insert anything in between other output cells right?

Btw, another thing worth specifying is whether those code will be include in the .ipynb file since the python interactive window can also save Jupyter notebooks.

[rchiodo]

Yep. Just add at the end. So not like Jupyter, more like a terminal.

We have an internal spec on this. I'm looking into if we can just post it here.

[rchiodo]

The code will end up in the ipynb when you export. At least the way it's working right now. Not sure if that's desirable or not, but you can always delete those temp items before exporting.

[rchiodo]

I've uploaded the internal spec. Final UI will look slightly different.

• Context menu support is turning out to be difficult in a vscode webview, so no context menus right now
• Multiline entering doesn't put the little ... next to each line