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jupytext — Convert Jupyter notebooks to plain text documents, and back again. More information: <https://jupyte

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Problem

How to use the jupytext command: Convert Jupyter notebooks to plain text documents, and back again. More information: <https://jupytext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/using-cli.html>.

Solution

jupytext — Convert Jupyter notebooks to plain text documents, and back again. More information: <https://jupytext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/using-cli.html>.

Turn a notebook into a paired .ipynb/.py notebook:

jupytext --set-formats ipynb,py {{path/to/notebook}}.ipynb

Convert a notebook to a .py file:

jupytext --to py {{path/to/notebook}}.ipynb

Convert a .py file to a notebook with no outputs:

jupytext --to notebook {{path/to/notebook}}.py

Convert a .md file to a notebook and run it:

jupytext --to notebook --execute {{path/to/notebook}}.md

Update the input cells in a notebook and preserve outputs and metadata:

jupytext --update --to notebook {{path/to/notebook}}.py

Update all paired representations of a notebook:

jupytext {{[-s|--sync]}} {{path/to/notebook}}.ipynb

Code Snippets

Turn a notebook into a paired `.ipynb`/`.py` notebook

jupytext --set-formats ipynb,py {{path/to/notebook}}.ipynb

Convert a notebook to a `.py` file

jupytext --to py {{path/to/notebook}}.ipynb

Convert a `.py` file to a notebook with no outputs

jupytext --to notebook {{path/to/notebook}}.py

Convert a `.md` file to a notebook and run it

jupytext --to notebook --execute {{path/to/notebook}}.md

Update the input cells in a notebook and preserve outputs and metadata

jupytext --update --to notebook {{path/to/notebook}}.py

Context

tldr-pages: common/jupytext

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