How to display python variable values in VS Code Python Interactive pane markdown cell output

Question

How can I display the value (as a string) of a python variable in the markdown cell output in the Python Interactive pane of VS Code's MS Python extension?

For a variable var, using

#%%
from IPython.display import display, Markdown

var = 50 # units

display(Markdown('The value of my variable `var` is: {} units.'.format(str(var)))

in a code cell produces the correct output, but I was looking for a more elegant solution that will allow me to insert the value directly into markdown text.

Something similar to the Jupyter notebook extension Python Markdown.

To show output-number [10] with the following is inconsistent, and when it does work only outputs all of the code text as plain text.

#%% [markdown]
Out[10]

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 17 '22 at 18:49

Although there are many ways in RStudio (like usage backtick `` in Markdown) or assigning parameter with glue method or mustaches {{ var }} none of them does not work in VSCode for now. However, you can circumvent this problem by displaying Markdown or HTML within the Python cell. Like below:

from IPython.display import IFrame, display, HTML
your_variable = 100
html_skin = f"<h1 style='color:red'>{your_variable }</h1>"
display(HTML(html_skin))

What here we did is show your_variable within h1 tags and render in the notebook.

It does not answer this problem nevertheless gives the same result.

How to display python variable values in VS Code Python Interactive pane markdown cell output

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