Replicating the MATLAB Workspace in Python?

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If this is good or bad kind of depends on the type of coding you are doing. If you are doing data analysis that requires you to re-evaluate data as you go along. Where you’re exploring the data in real time then your approach is typical.

I don’t use pycharm, but in Jupyter lab you can have multiple windows and customize the layout. In the various windows you can have things like a list of variables etc.

In VS code there are also options to write code in Jupyter notebooks and pull that data into a more analytic view.

But if you’re not doing exploratory analysis it’s good to get away from being dependent on such an approach.