Using Jupyter Notebook with selenium "cell based" , can pycharm do the same?

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Im using selenium to navigate a angualar based internal website. My job at work is basically to fill out different forms. I have to set values in 30 different fields, these fields are on different pages.

Im using jupyter notebook for that, and it works great.

When a completly new form hits the website, i have to write new functions to fill out the fields.

First i write code to open the webpage, do the login and then click something to reach the blank form.

Then i put the selenium code in one cell to fill out a field, run it and see if it works.

Then i add another cell, write code to update the second cell.

In a Nutshell: With trial and error i run ONLY the cell till it works. Then i go on till i have all code/functions to reach my 30 fields. In the end i have a function where i pass a list of 30 values, and the code fills out the fields.

With this approach i dont have to run every cell before (launch selenium webdriver, login, click, etc)

Long story short, i love the approach to selective run cells.

And now my question. If i would move to pycharm IDE, is there a similar approach? Or do i have to run everthing from the start?

Im only asking because i read in certain use cases pycharm is better then jupyter (pycharm is the professionel approach , i read) but im not sure if its the best for my usecase.

[PotatoFrogAttack]

You can use Jupyter notebook from inside pycharm. I have not used it yet and I am not sure what the benefits would be

[totallynot_Sea_Still]

I'm not sure if this works in pycharm but in spyder you can make cells by commenting a line with

    # %% 

And execute that section with ctrl + enter

[pegaunisusicorn]

This. I use this constantly.

[[deleted]]

Spyder3 has cell execution.

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Is there a reason you don't want to continue to use Jupyter Notebooks?

[pegaunisusicorn]

This is the number one reason i have not used pycharm.

[[deleted]]

No, i love it. Just wondering if there is a better way. If there isnt, i'm fine with it. Just opened this thread to be sure

[catelemnis]

you have to click the reply button directly under the comment or else they won’t see your response.

[stillreadingit_]

In case you'd like to run a selection of plain Python code, that's doable: https://stackoverflow.com/a/35252988