🔒 JupyterLab vs Jupyter Notebook for example notebooks

[shut copper]

Hey all. Consider a new, small python package, which has some example Jupyter notebooks. Its documentation and optional dependencies for the example notebook can use either JupyterLab or a plain old Jupyter Notebook. Which one would be recommended? Thanks!

[summer zinc]

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[ember arrow]

marimo

what kind of "example notebooks" are you using it for?

[shut copper]

i want to choose marimo but my coworkers don't know it

[shut copper]

a main, short example notebook that demonstrates how to use the package

[ember arrow]

My thinking is that notebooks are ideal for snippet style code, but i'm not really familiar with jupyterlab

[shut copper]

they definitely are

but i'm seeing some things about jupyterlab being the modern replacement

i'm not familiar with it either

[ember arrow]

can't imagine it's better than vscode for coding or notebook for snippets ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[shut copper]

vs code is also really nice yeah

[ember arrow]

yeah, personally I haven't really been hearing a ton about jupyterlab so I'd be inclined to stick to something mainstream

[shut copper]

i just imagine it wouldn't be the "simplest" method to run a first example

that's a good point

i hadn't heard of it before this either

much

[ember arrow]

well, there's a fairly simple extension for vscode, though i've always just used jupyter when I had pyntb stuff to do

marimo is a fairly painless transition as well tbh

[shut copper]

the extension is very nice

i wanted to use marimo at first tbh

and had a simple command to use it

but a coworker just refused to install it

[ember arrow]

bummer

[shut copper]

not everyone's adventurous i guess

but yeah

[ember arrow]

my biggest gripe with notebooks/.py is that I ended up having to switch between interpreters

my jupyter was managed by conda through some process i'll never understand and it was a nightmare

[shut copper]

i think that is related to why i have to include an optional dependency for jupyterlab or notebook at all

instead it could just be ipykernel which lets a python interpreter act as a kernel for a notebook

but with only that, you have to manually choose which interpreter to use when you run jupyter

and i don't want everyone to have to go and do that for a simple example notebook

[ember arrow]

welp, I should get back to my studies, thanks for the chit chat

hmm or

[shut copper]

you too! good luck with the studying

[ember arrow]

here is a thought, if it's not sensitive, use a cloud notebook

thats pretty simple, go to link, press play

[shut copper]

that's not bad actually

it could be even easier to run the simple example then

for new users

i like it, thanks

[ember arrow]

aye, later bud

[shut copper]

cya!

[summer zinc]

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