Neuron, a new VS Code extension for data science

Re:Neuron, a new VS Code extension for data science by thanatropism on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @12:19PM (#18347010)

I think (and this isn't just personal experience) most of the appeal of Jupyter is the fractioned persistent state that allows you to write incrementally but not re-run increasingly long scripts. Inline plots are just gravy.

(Yes yes write documents export LaTeX. Not sure people care about this at all)

I've been developing a style where development "cells" are cached with joblib.Memory so re-running a script from command line doesn't take idiotic amounts of time. Further, I have litte context managers such that

   with Figure('filename.png'): plotting_logic()

exports a file that immediately shows in the folder navigation bar of Atom. It's overall a better experience.

What I would really like is being able to use joblib.Memory not as a decorator (which requires bunching up your "cells" in functions and calling them separately) but as a context manager.

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To the tune of the "Portlandia" song: the dream of MUMPS state is alive in joblib...

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Re:Neuron, a new VS Code extension for data science by mirashii on Thursday November 01, 2018 @12:17PM (#18355502)

You can actually do this as a context manager, I have done something very similar in the past. I created a dummy context manager with a unique name and used an importhook to do an AST rewrite to the body of the context manager. It's a bit of a hack (okay, a lot of a hack), but allows for some really neat patterns that context managers didn't allow.

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