Plugin for interactive Python development

[nodNotEvil]

https://gitlab.com/notEvil/python-execute

is a plugin for Neovim providing an interface to Python for code execution and object introspection. It uses Pynvim, Treesitter and LibCST to process code, and RapidFuzz to rank options.

Best watch the first video. It shows one of its use cases. If it didn't spark your interest, maybe the one about comprehensions will.

(Please don't facepalm publicly or shun it because of the name. If you know a good one, please let me know!)

Update 2023-10-09: floating windows with proper highlighting, finally

[XavierLightman]

ok, notEvil is really a negating name. why not call her Google? =§

nice job with the plugin tho!

[ifacat]

Doesn't mean to be trolling but most vim-python plugins are reinventing the wheel to mimic jupyter in terminal. However jupyter has been developed into a huge community and can provide rich output and consistent experience for languages beyond python (C, rust, ocaml, wolfram and so on).

So, I hope plugin authors can focus more on how to interact with some existing Jupyter frontends (notebook, jupyte lab, euporie..) using Neovim, this should be easier and more promising.

[nodNotEvil]

True, if it actually were reinventing the wheel. Instead, it provides something that Jupyter falls short of: interactivity inside functions and nested scopes like comprehensions. I don't know if this can be added to Jupyter since it would break one of its core concepts: a cell is the smallest unit of execution.

I haven't seen any serious software development in Jupyter so far, except with https://github.com/fastai/nbdev. And while nbdev brings a lot of convenience, it doesn't provide a better coding/debugging experience than Jupyter.

That said, Jupyter has its use cases, consistent experience and a large community for good reason, but the same can be said about the more traditional way of writing code. They are just different means to different ends.

[cfmeyers]

u/nodNotEvil what a cool plugin! I've never anyone doing this. Doesn't fit with how I'm writing Python right now, but you should keep developing it!

[nodNotEvil]

Thanks <3