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Jupyter Notebooks documentation inconsistent
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On the website, it states that working with Jupyter Notebooks in VS Code requires environments have the Jupyter package installed.
The GitHub Markdown docs, which I think is correct, states that you only need ipykernel installed. This is also shown in the link that appears on the actual application modal, when you try to execute a cell in a Python environment before a kernel is detected.
Given how much a full Jupyter installation pollutes the environment as compared to just the kernel package (in both number of packages and size), I think this small nuance should be corrected.
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