[SciPy-User] Is it good practice to use IPython notebooks as your Python IDE?

[Alistair Miles]

FWIW I use PyCharm for any heavy coding (refactoring support is
particularly useful) but IPython notebooks for informal testing and
exploration, in particular the %autoreload magic is very helpful as you can
have any changes you make to functions/classes you are working on in
PyCharm be immediately effective in the notebook without having to restart
or reload modules manually.

Hth,
Alistair

On Saturday, March 14, 2015, Brian Merchant <bhmerchant at gmail.com> wrote:

> I need to write about 2000 lines worth of code (based on my last
> implementation of the project I am working on). I anticipate that I'll be
> using profilers (including line profilers), numpy, Numba, possibly Cython
> and almost definitely matplotlib animations. I will need to write my own
> classes, so my program isn't just going to be one long script.
>
>
> Previously, I used Spyder for development, but I am wondering if it makes
> sense for one to use an IPython notebook alone. I am considering that
> option so that I force myself to program "literately" -- lots of headings,
> and nice comments. Graphs embedded to show the effects of optimizations,
> and so forth.
>
> So far, I know that IPython might have some trouble with integrating in
> matplotlib animations, but that too is possible with a little research.
> Otherwise, I should be able to do everything else quite easily, including
> debugging, according to the IPython documentation. In fact, writing
> parallel code in IPython might be a very nice idea given how it seems to
> offer a lot of functionality in that direction.
>
>
> Do people use IPython (notebooks) as a complete IDE often? If not, why not?
>
> Kind regards,
> Brian
>


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