Save ipython notebook as script programmatically

Question

The excellent ipython notebook has a handy --script command line flag that automatically saves a copy of the notebook as a .py script file (removin

Answer 1

Better yet (at least for my purposes): ipython respects local copies of the ipython_notebook_config.py file. So I can just add

c = get_config()
c.NotebookManager.save_script = True

to such a file in my notebook directory. Apparently, ipython first reads ~/.ipython/profile_default/ipython_notebook_config.py, and then reads the local copy of that file. So it's safe to use without worrying about demolishing the user settings.

This was not at all clear to me from the documentation, but I just tried it and it worked.