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The Mito JupyterLab Extension — A Spreadsheet that Generates Python

Roman Orac
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3 min readOct 3, 2021

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Mito is a spreadsheet interface for Python

Mito allows you to pass your dataframes or CSV files into a spreadsheet interface. It has the feel of Excel, but each edit generates the equivalent Python in the code cell below. At its best, this can be a really fast way to get your data analysis done.

Exploratory Data Analysis with Mito (Visualization made by author)

In case you’ve missed my other articles about Mito:

Getting Started With Mito

Here are the full installation instructions.

To install the Mito package, run these commands in your terminal:

python -m pip install mitoinstaller
python -m mitoinstaller install

Then open a notebook in Jupyter Lab and call a mitosheet:

import mitosheet
mitosheet.sheet()

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