Test Python code interactively in VS Code

Question

I have a question about python in VS Code. In IDE spyder I can define a function and test it in the terminal. For example:

def test(a):
    return a + 1

If I write in terminal test(4) it will return 5. How can I make this work in VS Code? The same example in VS Code returns this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'test' is not defined

Answer 1

You have two ways to solve this problem:

1.creat a python file and run this file:

2. Run code in terminal