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Question on porting workflow: (Zipline in Jupyter) -> (web IDE)

Hello,
Which is the proper workflow and practice on writing code in ipython notebook and porting it to quantopians web ide?
I am a big fan of Ipython notebook, since one can interrogate the data, see interim results have ad-hoc plotting etc, and I would like to develop code there, and then deploy it to quantopian's web IDE.
However, Zipline seems to have a different API compared to that of the Quantopians web ide, and i cannot port my code to the web ide (even if I copy and paste it).
Has anybody have the same issue as I? Does anybody have any example code that works with both zipline or quantopian?
Thanks!!

1 response

Hi Chris,
I'm not sure there is a right way...yet. I've seen people coding entire algos in Research and then port them, and also seen people just do research in Research and then write their algos in the IDE. The IDE has some nice benefits with the debugger, and is required for entry into the Quantopian open, but I understand how nice it is to work in IPython.

We are planning to get the code more similar, so copying and pasting between the two will become easier, but for now it's a bit of whichever works best for you.

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