Mastodawn

There is something I would like which I have not been able to find.

When I use the programming language R, I typically use the IDE RStudio. One of the things I like about RStudio is that it A: allows me to run individual lines of code, and B: it shows me the objects in the environment within another pane (see attached screenshot).

I find this extremely useful when working with code that is not mine - if I run part of the code and see the objects that are created, it saves debugging all the types (is it a list or a vector? etc)

I'd like to have a similar IDE that works with Python in the same way. Does such an IDE exist? Is it PyCharm?

#python #rstats #rstudio

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Thomas Sandmann

@spacefinner Take a look at Positron - also from @Posit . The engineers have taken a lot of the lessons from RStudio, including the Environment panel & line-wise code execution. So much so that Positron feels quite natural for an RStudio user like myself. I think Positron is built on Code OSS, the same platform that underlies Microsoft's popular VS Code or the open source VSCodium IDEs. Positron is a data science IDE for both R and python. Might be worth a look: https://positron.posit.co/

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