Configure a first cell by default in Jupyter notebooks

Question

TIs there a way to configure a default first cell for a specific python kernel in the Jupyter notebook? I agree that default python imports go against good coding practices.

Answer 1

An alternative which I find to be quite handy is to use %load command in your notebook.

As an example I stored the following one line code into a python file __JN_init.py

import numpy as np

Then whenever you need it, you could just type in:

%load __JN_init.py

and run the cell. You will get the intended package to be loaded in. The advantage is that you could keep a set of commonly used initialization code with almost no time to set up.