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October 15

Opening and Listing Simple Python Script

Someone has sent me a few simple Python scripts. I was told that I could run them using the console. Fair enough. I can load a script with "import <script>" in the console, but I can't see what I just imported. I downloaded Jupyter-Lab, but when I try to open the <script>.py file, it opens it as text. I suppose I could open a new iPython notebook and copy the text into it, but I feel I'm overlooking something very obvious with both the console and Jupyter-Lab. Why can't I just open the script file and have it, you know, *open*, like in every other IDE I've used in the past 25 years? OldTimeNESter (talk) 23:35, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

You can't. Jupyter lab files must be in notebook format with ipynb extention. You can open Python files in any editor or IDE (except Jupyter).
Sleigh (talk) 00:59, 16 October 2020 (UTC)