[cdancette]

If you work with image processing, notebooks are very handy as they can display images directly. Also to display tables nicely with pandas, or for any data visualization actually.

[bunderbunder]

That's my problem. I agree that notebooks create a troublesome dev situation, but "%matplotlib inline" and stuff like the pivot table plugin keep me crawling back.

[srean]

Doesn't IPython repl running in a QTconsole terminal do that ?

[cdancette]

Yeah but it's less nice, and if you're running on a distant server you have to deal with X forwarding