I just made the transition from Spyder to VScode for my python endeavours. Is there a way to run individual lines of code? That's how I used to do my on-the-spot debugging, but I can't find an option for it in VScode and really don't want to keep setting and removing breakpoints.
Thanks.
If you highlight some code, you can right-click or run the command, Run Selection/Line in Python Terminal.
We are also planning on implementing Ctrl-Enter to do the same thing and looking at Ctr-Enter executing the current line.
You can:
open a terminal at Terminal>New Terminal
Highlight the code you want to run
Hit Terminal>Run Selected Text
As for R you can hit CTRL Enter to execute the highlighted code. For python there's apparently no default shortcut (see below), but I am quite sure you can add yours.
In my ver of VSCode (1.25), shift+enter will run selection. Note that you will want to have your integrated terminal running python.
One way you can do it is through the Integrated Terminal. Here is the guide to open/use it: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/integrated-terminal
After that, type python3 or python since it is depending on what version you are using. Then, copy and paste the fraction of code you want to run into the terminal. It now has the same functionality as the console in Spyder. Hope this helps.
I'm still trying to figure out how to make vscode do what I need (interactive python plots), but I can offer a more complete answer to the question at hand than what has been given so far:
1- Evaluate current selection in debug terminal is an option that is not enabled by default, so you may want to bind the 'editor.debug.action.selectionToRepl' action to whatever keyboard shortcut you choose (I'm using F9). As of today, there still appears to be no option to evaluate current line while debugging, only current selection.
2- Evaluate current line or selection in python terminal is enabled by default, but I'm on Windows where this isn't doing what I would expect - it evaluates in a new runtime, which does no good if you're trying to debug an existing runtime. So I can't say much about how useful this option is, or even if it is necessary since anytime you'd want to evaluate line-by-line, you'll be in debug mode anyway and sending to debug console as in 1 above. The Windows issue might have something to do with the settings.json entry
"terminal.integrated.inheritEnv": true,
not having an affect in Windows as of yet, per vscode documentation.
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I'm trying to activate the debugging functions that are now available on VSCode for Jupyter Notebooks but I'm having some problems with that.
In my interface I can see the button to 'Run by Line' next to every cell but when I click it nothing happens except the normal execution of the entire cell, but that mode is supposed to execute your cell line by line... I've tried putting some breakpoints even I know it is not necessary in that mode but still nothing.
As you can see here the buttons for debugging are shown a few seconds after hitting the 'Run by Line' button but they do nothing.
As a workaround to not being able to use that useful mode, I tried the standard debug mode of VSCode for Jupyter Notebooks which let you go breakpoint to breakpoint on your cell, the problem (I think it is) is that when I use that what VSCode does is open another tab with just the code of the cell I'm debugging in a temporary .py file, which is not the behaviour I would like to have, because I think it should do that on the Notebook tab itself without any new file...
Here I show you a screenshot of the temporary .py that it's created:
That's just the code of my notebook first cell!
Any help with this? I would like to solve both problems or at least one of them.
I've checked the requisites for the debug modes and make sure I fullfill everyone of them but I'm not so used to use the debug functionalities of VSCode so maybe I'm skipping something.
This is a current bug. It was notified to the dev team here:
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-jupyter/issues/8258
The bug is caused by vscode using a shortened username. In my case GUILLE~1 instead of Guillermo.
The current solution available is to create a new user in your computer with a maximum length of 8 characters.
I initially started learning Python in Spyder, but decided to switch to PyCharm recently, hence I'm learning PyCharm with a Spyder-like mentality.
I'm interested in running a file in the Python console, but every time I rerun this file, it will run under a newly opened Python console. This can become annoying after a while, as there will be multiple Python consoles open which basically all do the same thing but with slight variations.
I would prefer to just have one single Python console and run an entire file within that single console. Would anybody know how to change this? Perhaps the mindset I'm using isn't very PyCharmic?
There is a specific option in PyCharm 2018.2+: Settings | Build, Execution, Deployment | Console | Use existing console for "Run with Python console".
Run with Python console is an option you have enabled in the Run Configuration. Disable it if you don't need a Python console after a script execution:
Hi: If you are looking for re running the code again in the same python console everytime then you have to check the respective box in the Project settings as shown in image below.
To allow only one instance to run, go to "Run" in the top bar, then "Edit Configurations...". Finally, check "Single instance only" at the right side. This will run only one instance and restart every time you run.
One console is one instance of Python being run on your system. If you want to run different variations of code within the same Python kernel, you can highlight the code you want to run and then choose the run option (Alt+Shift+F10 default).
You have an option to Rerun the program.
Simply open and navigate to currently running app with:
Alt+4 (Windows)
⌘+4 (Mac)
And then rerun it with:
Ctrl+R (Windows)
⌘+R (Mac)
Another option:
Show actions popup:
Ctrl+Shift+A (Windows)
⇧+⌘+A (Mac)
And type Rerun ..., IDE then hint you with desired action, and call it.
I think that what you are looking for is the last option in this window; check it and it should work.
Settings -> Build, Execution, Deployment -> Console
This is mostly a question regarding work-flow in Spyder, and not a pure programming question. If anyone thinks it has no place here, then please let me know and I'll remove it.
Here we go:
I'm running Spyder on a Windows 64-bit operating system. The interaction between the Spyder IDE and IPython console depends on how you choose to run your code, and I would like to specify how this interaction works.
Among several options to run parts of the code, the difference between the following two is what puzzles me:
Option 1 - Select parts of the code and hit F9
This runs the selected code. No surprise there.
Hit F9 again, and the same selection is executed once more.
Option 2 - Run the same selection using Cells (#%%) and Ctrl+Enter
The code is run just like before. But hit Ctrl-Enter again, and nothing happens. Probably because the IPython console now is the active window.
I would like to find some way of changing this so I can use Ctrl+Enter and run the cell contents multiple times without having to make the Spyder IDE the active window by manually clicking on it. I don't know if this is possible at all. Googling and messing around in the settings under Run / configure and Tools / Preferences has so far been useless.
Thank you for any suggestions!
P.S
In case you're wondering why this is such a big deal to me, I'm rendering multiple charts and exporting them to Power Point with minor changes each time the code is run. This way, new parts of the charts (lines, textboxes, etc) are revealed when I'm working my way through a finished Power Point presentation. And for my basic data science needs, this has turned out to be a pretty much optimal work-flow. Except, of course, that I have to manually select the Spyder IDE each time I run different selections of the code.
In the latest spyder version, the keyboard shortcut to run the highlighted lines of code is F9 but it doesn't seem to work.
Go change it from TOOLS>>PREFERENCES>>KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS then double click on any shortcut you want to change and change with your shortcut. But be very careful if you used the same shortcut that is used for any other work then for that it will remove.
I changed the shortcut for 'run selection' from F9 to ctrl + Enter
in Option 2, you should use Shift+Enter instead
I decided to use NppExec to run my Python files from notepad++, however I encountered a problem. I created a simple script with one line:
python -i $(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)
and added the script to the "Menu items" in nppExec advanced options. The script appears in my macros tab and does what I need when I run it. The problem is I am unable to set a keyboard shortcut to this command. The command appears in my shortcut mapper (under plugin commands) and I can set it to
shift+ctrl+p
but the problem is that it simply does not work when I hit the three keys. The key combination is not the problem, as I was able to create a test macro that ran when I hit shift+ctrl+p.
Edit:
More updates: the shortcuts.xml in APPDATA does change when I add the shortcut, the line:
<PluginCommand moduleName="NppExec.dll" internalID="20" Ctrl="yes" Alt="no" Shift="yes" Key="80" />
is added. This is exactly my ctrl+shift+p command, it's there, it just does not fire.
Is anyone else experiencing this strange behaviour?
Any help will be greatly appretiated.
Ctrl+Shift+P is by default assigned to Playback command. Notepad++ is buggy when it comes to shortcut mapping, can easily create collisions. See for example open bug #3635.
My suggestion is to try to assign it to something else (personal preference is F5) and double check that it's not already assigned!
I'm new to python and pycharm and I'd like to run a module from the pycharm console in the same way as you can from IDLE, if it's possible.
The idea is to create simple functions and test them "live" using the console.
...how do you do that in pycharm?
Running python scripts using pycharm is pretty straightforward, quote from docs:
To run a script with a temporary run/debug configuration Open the
desired script in the editor, or select it in the Project tool window.
Choose Run on the context menu, or press Ctrl+Shift+F10. So
doing, a temporary run/debug configuration is created on-the-fly.
Besides there is a "Python Console" available in pycharm: see documentation.
UPD:
Here's an example.
Imagine you have a python module called test_module.py:
def a(*args, **kwargs):
print "I'm function a"
def b(*args, **kwargs):
print "I'm function b"
Then, in pycharm's "Python Console" you can do this:
>>> from test_module import *
>>> a()
I'm function a
>>> b()
I'm function b
If you need to execute a part of an existing code, you can use the Execute Selection in Console feature: select the code snippet -> right click -> "Execute Selection in Console".
For anyone still having this problem: Go to the Run/Debug menu, choose Edit Configuration, check the box 'Show command line' this will enable you to enter parameters in the console at the >>> prompt and test your function.
Edit: To make this change apply to all your .py files (as this check box only applies to the current file you're working on) go to: Edit configuration, in the pop up you will see a menu tree on the left, select Defaults, then Python, then check the 'Show command line' box, this will make it the default setting whenever you open a .py file, (this feature should really be on by default!)
Right Click --> Run File In Console
Done!
Looks like in version 2018.3, this option is now Run with Python console in Run/Debug Configurations:
What you're looking for is the feature called Execute Selection in Console which is described in section Loading Code from Editor Into Console of PyCharm's online help.
Select the script lines that you want to execute and press Shift+Alt+E
You can run the Find Action shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+A or ⌘+⇧+A on mac), then type run file, and choose the option Run file in Console.
In pycharm do:
Run>Edit Configuration>Show command line afterwards
Assuming your code is in file MySimpleCode.py you can simply say
run MySimpleCode
in the PyCharm console. This assumes that you have set your working directory properly; e.g. if MySimpleCode.py is located in d:\work on a Windows system you must execute
cd d:\work
first. In my opinion the other solutions miss what the post really wants: simply executing a file like from a DOS or Unix shell, or a .m script in MATLAB. No messing with imports, projects and so on. If you use CTRL SHIFT F10 your code gets executed, sure, but in a different environment, so you have no access to variables created in your code. I assume the question means that you want to do further work with the results of the script.
Explanation for people with MATLAB background: In most Python IDEs you have to configure an interpreter first in some kind of project. The MATLAB equivalent would be a master IDE where you can choose your MATLAB version for each project. This makes it possible to run your Python code on the CPU, your GPU or even an external NVIDIA board with different settings (after several days in the installation hell). For the beginner this is very confusing, because for simple code samples any "default" interpreter should suffice. Unfortunately this is not the case for Python (2 or 3? 2.x or 2.y? which package version?), and it will get worse as you progress (which 32 or 64 bit version of TensorFlow is available for Python 3.x? and so on).