Issues with running in jupyter lab

[mshallow]

@kipkeller and I have been trying to get lisbet up and running for our analysis of prey capture behavior, and most recently have been trying to get it to work in jupyter notebooks so that we can easily test and run the functions as well as plot the analysis figures in the same document for ease of analysis and troubleshooting. Kip originally had gotten a jupyter notebook to run the compute_embeddings and other functions such as the plotting in an environment before your suggested changes for using the GPU on windows, but in an environment with those changes it does not run. He also tried the old environment without the GPU changes again and that one still works.
I also just tried installing jupyter in my environment on Mac to see if I could get anything to run in jupyter lab and got the same error. Is this possibly related to using betman? I've tried to figure out if juptyer and betman are compatible and have been unable to find anything about the betman documentation in general. Is it possible to get an example jupyter notebook or does something in your codebase mean that we have to only run the code using betman in command line?

When running in jupyter, I immediately get a syntax error:

I also tried to just import lisbet and use the functions like I would another package and that does not seem to work either. I think that more clarification on how these things are best run/ an option to run them either without betman or more of an explanation as to what betman is doing would be helpful. The "Getting Started" guide states that there is a description of how to use betman in the User Guide that I am unable to find.

[gchindemi]

I’m sorry the documentation was not clear enough. I’m trying to improve it as we gather more information on how users interact with the software.

About the issue itself, betman is the LISBET’s CLI and is not supposed to be used in a Jupyter notebook. In practice, betman simply formats the command line inputs and call the functions of the LISBET’s API, as you correctly attempted.

To move forward, I could add the matching API calls to the betman documentation. Additionally, I was considering to make some video tutorials on how to use the software. If you think this could be helpful, I’ll try to prioritize it. I’m currently traveling and I have limited internet access, but I should be able to work on the documentation by the end of next week or so.