5 Jupyter Lab Hacks for a Better Life
4 Hacks to brighten up your jupyter lab experience +1 to darken it (in a good way)
1. When You Work With Several Notebooks You Can Customize Their Locations by Dragging
How often do you open 2 (or more) notebooks to copy code from one to the other? I do quite often and learned that by dragging my notebooks I can place them near each other like different windows instead of the default several-tabs display. You can place your notebooks side by side or one below the other or — and this is insane — both.
2. Use %Who to See What Variables You Have in Your Environment
If you’ve been working on the same notebook for a while, you might have forgotten what variables you have in the environment. One way to check is to use the magic line function ‘who’ as shown in the picture.
3. Save an Entire Environment With Dill
Need to shut down your kernel for some reason and don’t want to lose your environment? Don’t lose your chill — simply use dill.
Two useful things dill does are -
- Dump session— saves all existing variables of an environment into a file.
- Load session— loads all variables from the file into the environment.
How to run this operation -
- Install
pip install dill- Use
import dill#to dump:
dill.dump_session(‘session.db’)#to load:
dill.load_session(‘session.db’)
4. Open a Function’s Documentation With Shift-Tab
Using a function and can’t fully recall its parameters? press shift-tab (not before placing your cursor inside the brackets) and the function’s
documentation will appear.
5. Dark Mode
If you’re on the dark-mode team and didn’t know this yet then I’m happy to announce that Jupyter Lab has a dark theme, I personally encountered it by coincidence and boy was I happy. how to apply-
on the menu (left) choose the palette -> Theme -> Use JupyterLab Dark Theme
Thanks for reading, I hope you found these useful. If you have other hacks you’re willing to share please do in the comments. Cheers!
