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Python IDEs, such as PyCharm, provide an interactive environment and even debugging facilities.

Jupyter notebook

A Jupyter notebook provides an interactive workspace combining code, plots and documentation. It runs in a web browser and can be started from the command-line as follows:

jupyter notebook

This command will open a new tab in your web browser, or you can copy the URL yourself.

Now, create a new Notebook using the menu:

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You can start typing your code into the boxes. Press CTRL-Return to execute the code in the current cell, or SHIFT-Return to execute and move to the next code cell. To generate plots inside the notebook, call

mv.setoutput('jupyter')

at some point before calling the plot() command.

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