Support fully integrated IPython terminal

[ThomasA]

The Python IDE Spyder runs code in an IPython terminal integrated in the IDE. The IPython terminal opens along with the rest of the IDE and when you run a script, it gets run directly via %run in existing IPython terminal. The terminal remains open after execution of a script so that you can access variables in its context afterwards.
I sorely miss this feature in VSCode and it would be absolutely great if this could be offered by the Python extension. Spyder is open source, so it should be possible to see how they have implemented it.

[github-actions]

Thanks for the feature request! We are going to give the community 60 days from when this issue was created to provide 7 👍 upvotes on the opening comment to gauge general interest in this idea. If there's enough upvotes then we will consider this feature request in our future planning. If there's unfortunately not enough upvotes then we will close this issue.

[cbrnr]

See also #17172. I'd also like to be able to use IPython instead of the regular interactive Python interpreter.

[tomazfs]

I'd also like to be able to use IPython instead of the regular interactive Python interpreter.
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[brettcannon]

Thanks for the feature request! We are going to give the community 60 days from when this issue was created to provide 7 👍 upvotes on the opening comment to gauge general interest in this idea. If there's enough upvotes then we will consider this feature request in our future planning. If there's unfortunately not enough upvotes then we will close this issue.

[brettcannon]

BTW please let us know what you specifically miss from IPython.

[m-ganko]

Magic commands and colored input and output :)