Add to Documentation Help with Using PyCharm/Intellij and Jupyter/Jupyterlab Kernels

[jkutil]

TL;DR:

Add a mention to the documentation for this package to get around a weird issue with Intellij/PyCharm not correctly seeing the kernels in the pixi environments:

https://github.com/anaconda/nb_conda_kernels

Explanation

I just started using pixi and the first thing I attempted to do was convert my existing conda environment/project to using pixi.

That was completely painless by using:

pixi init --import environment.yml

And then I added the pixi pycharm integration from here: https://pixi.sh/v0.27.1/ide_integration/pycharm/

pixi add pixi-pycharm

And then I tried firing up a Jupyter Notebook after pointing Intellij at the new environment and conda shim.

It failed to run the first cell with this:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'duckdb'

Strangely though, the first cell imports pandas and duckdb:

import pandas as pd
import duckdb

What is really odd about this though is that a normal python file was able to import and use the duckdb package just fine.

I even confirmed that it could be used in the python interpreter using pixi shell and then python and also pixi run python.

After a lot of sleuthing, I eventually found this SO answer:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/44786736

Which led me to adding this package:

https://github.com/anaconda/nb_conda_kernels

pixi add nb_conda_kernels

And now everything is happy and the kernels are showing inside Intellij: