How do I convert a IPython Notebook into a Python file via commandline?

Question

I\'m looking at using the *.ipynb files as the source of truth and programmatically \'compiling\' them into .py files for scheduled jobs/tasks.

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Answer 1

Jupytext is nice to have in your toolchain for such conversions. It allows not only conversion from a notebook to a script, but you can go back again from the script to notebook as well. And even have that notebook produced in executed form.

jupytext --to py notebook.ipynb                 # convert notebook.ipynb to a .py file
jupytext --to notebook notebook.py              # convert notebook.py to an .ipynb file with no outputs
jupytext --to notebook --execute notebook.py    # convert notebook.py to an .ipynb file and run it 

Answer 2

If you don't want to output a Python script every time you save, or you don't want to restart the IPython kernel:

On the command line, you can use nbconvert:

$ jupyter nbconvert --to script [YOUR_NOTEBOOK].ipynb

As a bit of a hack, you can even call the above command in an IPython notebook by pre-pending ! (used for any command line argument). Inside a notebook:

!jupyter nbconvert --to script config_template.ipynb

Before --to script was added, the option was --to python or --to=python, but it was renamed in the move toward a language-agnostic notebook system.

Answer 3

Following the previous example but with the new nbformat lib version :

import nbformat
from nbconvert import PythonExporter

def convertNotebook(notebookPath, modulePath):

  with open(notebookPath) as fh:
    nb = nbformat.reads(fh.read(), nbformat.NO_CONVERT)

  exporter = PythonExporter()
  source, meta = exporter.from_notebook_node(nb)

  with open(modulePath, 'w+') as fh:
    fh.writelines(source.encode('utf-8'))

Answer 4

The following example turns an Iron Python Notebook called a_notebook.ipynb into a python script called a_python_script.py leaving out the cells tagged with the keyword remove, which I add manually to the cells that I don't want to end up in the script, leaving out visualizations and other steps that once I am done with the notebook I don't need to be executed by the script.

import nbformat as nbf
from nbconvert.exporters import PythonExporter
from nbconvert.preprocessors import TagRemovePreprocessor

with open("a_notebook.ipynb", 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
    the_notebook_nodes = nbf.read(f, as_version = 4)

trp = TagRemovePreprocessor()

trp.remove_cell_tags = ("remove",)

pexp = PythonExporter()

pexp.register_preprocessor(trp, enabled= True)

the_python_script, meta = pexp.from_notebook_node(the_notebook_nodes)

with open("a_python_script.py", 'w') as f:
    f.writelines(the_python_script)

Answer 5

If you want to convert all *.ipynb files from current directory to python script, you can run the command like this:

jupyter nbconvert --to script *.ipynb

Answer 6

You can do this from the IPython API.

from IPython.nbformat import current as nbformat
from IPython.nbconvert import PythonExporter

filepath = 'path/to/my_notebook.ipynb'
export_path = 'path/to/my_notebook.py'

with open(filepath) as fh:
    nb = nbformat.reads_json(fh.read())

exporter = PythonExporter()

# source is a tuple of python source code
# meta contains metadata
source, meta = exporter.from_notebook_node(nb)

with open(export_path, 'w+') as fh:
    fh.writelines(source)