David R. Pugh

> @davidrpugh Let me elaborate on my last point. I'd like to think that the goal of this lesson is to teach dependency and environment management via conda. Conda is...

I would like to link issue #397 which proposes switching to JupyterLab from Jupyter notebook. Using JupyterLab instead of Jupyter notebook might help those instructors such as @gvwilson who teach...

I wonder if we could introduce the ideas of type annotations and only provide a link to the `typing` package for those interested in more details. I guess this wouldn't...

If you really want to avoid using NumPy `arange` function, then you could have another exercise to write a function create a list of floats. One such solution would be......

I would like to link issue #397 which proposes switching to [JupyterLab](https://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) from Jupyter notebook. Using JupyterLab instead of Jupyter notebook might help those instructors such as @gvwilson who teach...

@gcapes Thanks for the feedback! I agree that it should not be the recommended approach: we really do want learners to have a working install of bash on their own...

Binder provides a number of UIs including [JupyterLab](https://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) and JupyterLab provides notebooks, Python consoles, and terminals inside a common UI.

Here is the link that will launch the Binder that I created for the Software Carpentry Python lesson. https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/swcarpentry/python-novice-gapminder/binder?urlpath=lab ...once the JupyterLab UI resolves then you can click the terminal...

@jnelson16 Thanks for you contribution! I have managed to find time to get back to pyBEA, can you update your branch, fix any outstanding merge conflicts, and push the changes....

The following API call also generates the same type of error. ```python data = pybea.get_data(USER_ID, DataSetName='UnderlyingGDPbyIndustry', TableID='ALL', Industry=11, Frequency='Q', Year='2012' ) ```