[Suggestion] Add for Jupyter Notebook's Python Markdown

[gusbemacbe]

Hello,

I refer to the article here about Python Markdown.

With this extension enabled on Jupyter Notebook, it allows to render the variable on a Markdown cell from a Python cell. Only Jupyter Notebook supports it, but VSCode Insiders does not support even if I always trust the notebook. You can compare two GIFs:

[gusbemacbe]

@rchiodo, done.

[rchiodo]

Thanks for the suggestion. We'll leave this open to see how many people up vote it.

[bruno-salmito]

Greate.

[fabriciolak]

Cool

[gusbemacbe]

Any news, @rchiodo ?

[DonJayamanne]

Unfortunately this hasn't been priotized yet. We work on issues based on upvotes, have longest upvote this

[SYNiMAK]

👍

[DonJayamanne]

Note for internal use:

• This is current made possible in Jupyter Notebooks via a custom extension,
• This isn't a feature thats natively supported.

Possibly a candidate for powertoys extension. However blocked on this feature request https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/121256

[SYNiMAK]

Super keen to see this in VS code, which ever way.

[gusbemacbe]

Possibly a candidate for powertoys extension.

@DonJayamanne, it is exclusive of Windows 10 and 11. :-/

[DonJayamanne]

im referring to the following extension, currently under development https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-jupyter-powertoys

[piggjf]

Upvoting via comment. If there's an actual button to click, please share its location.

Coming from R where I could `r var.name` stochastically generated variables to Jupyter has been a bit of an adjustment. My writing style is suffering and reminds me of the work that I produced back in third grade.

[ManuelWIAS]

Is this working now ?

[drorata]

Seems like it doesn't. I guess the need is still there.

[BengtDahlgrenGeo]

It would be a great feature for industries constantly creating reports that are very similar. We switched to Jupyter Notebook because of the lack of this feature.

[gaardhus]

This is IMO a very important feature when utilizing Notebooks for what they really should be: writing report like documents. Not being able to reference a variable within a markdown cell makes this much more cumbersome.

[t-fourcade-isp]

I fully agree with the previous comments. In my company it is this missing feature that hold us back from switching to vscode notebook (we keep working with jupyterlab even if we all agree that vscode is overall better).

[gaardhus]

It seems that Quarto has this (somewhat) figured out in their next release: https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/pull/6190

[DonJayamanne]

Quarto isn't displaying markdow the same way Jupyter does, they are pre-evaluating the cells and then rednering them, in Jupyter its completely diferent, i.e. if you update the variable then the markdown has to be updated, where as in quarto the mardown cell is generated after the variable has been initialized and its actual code thats executed.

[DonJayamanne]

Does anyone here use Jupyter Lab, if so what is the extension in Jupter Lab that makes this possible? Thanks

[gaardhus]

I havn't been able to find a solution that works in Jupyter Lab either, only the following for Jupyter Notebooks https://stackoverflow.com/a/52874352/9811508

[t-fourcade-isp]

There is two solutions, one for jupyter notebook and one for jupyterlab:

• for Jupyter Notebooks, the solution is the one stated by @gaardhus (https://github.com/ipython-contrib/jupyter_contrib_nbextensions/tree/master/src/jupyter_contrib_nbextensions/nbextensions/python-markdown),
• for JupyterLab, the solution is the imarkdown extension (https://github.com/agoose77/jupyterlab-imarkdown),

I tested both and they work well in their own environments.

[decimad]

I cannot understand why this common-sense must-have feature needs some determined thumbs-up count since 3 years to be considered for being taken out of the backlog while the extension supports so many nonsense features that nobody will hardly require anytime... I'm forced to copy and paste latex stuff from python output into markdown cells since the beginning and will now switch to jupyterlab because of this. Given the huge amount of effort that must have been spent on this extension, without question, it's a shame.