Importing custom module into jupyter notebook

Question

Yes, I know this is a recurrent question but I still couldn\'t find a convincing answer. I even read at https://chrisyeh96.github.io/2017/08/08/definitive-guide-python-imports.h

Answer 1

If you are on a Unix/Linux system another elegant solution may be creating a "soft link" to the module file helpers.py that you would like to use. Change to the notebooks directory and create the link to the module file this way:

cd notebooks; ln -fs ../my_project/helpers.py .

This "soft link" is essentially a pointer (a shortcut) to the original target file. With the link in place you will be import your module file as usual:

import helpers