Setup Instructions for Jupyter Notebook Support

Setting up the IDE

Instructions for PyCharm (Version 2025.1 or newer)

  • Make sure you have the latest, unified Version, not the Community Edition

  • If you are coming from the Community edition you can import all of your settings

    • To get rid of the messages to switch to Pro, you have to cancel the 30-days-trial-subscription (top right corner, scroll all the way down, click continue with core version, click cancel subscription and restart PyCharm)

  • Open a new project (File > New Project)

  • Select Pure Python and Interpreter Type Project venv and adjust the environment location on disk as needed

  • From the menu create a new file (File > New) and select Jupyter Notebook

  • Run a code cell to see that it works (takes some time on first start in a new project, because it installs some dependencies into the project folder's environment)

Instructions for VS Code

  • Install VS Code and then the extensions Python and Jupyter (both by Microsoft) from the extensions pane

  • In the file explorer pane open a folder where you want your project to be stored

  • Create a Jupyter Notebook (File > New > Jupyter Notebook)

  • Click on Select Kernel > Python enviroments > New environment > python venv > Python (global)

  • Run a code cell to see that it works (takes some time on first start in a new project, because it installs some dependencies into the project folder's environment)

Installation of other libraries

  • After you have setup Notebook support in VS Code and/or PyCharm you can install new packages into the project folder (local venv environment) by executing a cell like this: %pip install package_name

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