I love Python, I love Jupyter notebooks, and I love Cursor. The problem is that Cursor is not nearly as good with Jupyter notebooks as it is with plain python files. Do you have any tips that can make working with Jupyter notebooks in Cursor better?

The two main problems for me with Jupyter notebooks: Agent mode can’t edit Sometimes new cells bug out and look blank Waiting for a fix on (2), but I think there are some good ways to work around (1). Move all your functions to a .py file and run agent mode or edits there. Make sure to have the f…

Hey, currently, Cursor doesn’t support ipynb files, but we might add this feature in the future. In the meantime, you can vote for this feature here: [image] Jupyter Notebook support Feature Requests Simple as that, pretty much this File unsupported on Jupyter notebook . …

I see Jupyter support was added in 1.0 - but it’s… rough. Really. I regularly am losing just basic out of the box functionality from vscode when using cursor for notebooks. For example, I have a new notebook, the first cell is full of imports, I run it, no issues. Next cell uses some of the imports…

Any tips working with Jupyter notebooks?

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deanrie (Dean Rie) May 9, 2025, 8:09pm 3

Hey, currently, Cursor doesn’t support ipynb files, but we might add this feature in the future. In the meantime, you can vote for this feature here:

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Any tips working with Jupyter notebooks?

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