sphinxcontrib.jupyter

A Sphinx Extension for Generating Jupyter Notebooks

Summary

This sphinx extension can be used to build a collection of Jupyter notebooks for Sphinx Projects.

Note: It has mainly been written to support the use case of scientific publishing and hasn't been well tested outside of this domain. Please provide feedback as an issue to this repository.

Requires: Sphinx >= 1.7.2 (for running tests).

Installation

pip install sphinxcontrib-jupyter

to get the latest version it is best to install directly by getting a copy of the repository, and

python setup.py install

Usage

Update project conf.py file to include the jupyter extension and the desired Configuration settings (see configuration section below):

extensions = ["sphinxcontrib.jupyter"]

then run

make jupyter

Usage in RST Files

A minimum configured sphinx repo is available here which generates a sample notebook

To generate an In style executable block you can use

.. code-block:: python

.. literalinclude::

To include code in the notebook that is not meant for execution can be included using :class: no-execute. This is useful when writing code that is meant to throw errors, for example.

.. code-block:: python
    :class: no-execute

this will generate a highlighted markdown cell of the contents of the code-block. An alias for this is :class: skip-test. This is used in the context of a test environment that is using the collection of notebooks to test a collection of code snippets.

Exercise Solutions

The extension has support for :class: solution on code-blocks. This allows for the compilation of two sets of notebooks, one containing solutions and one without.

Test Blocks

Other class options for code-blocks include test to indicate the code block contains a test which can be used for adding test logic for automatic testing of notebooks. This is by default set to False in the configuration and all test blocks are dropped.

Jupyter Directive and Slides

The jupyter directive accepts three different arguments cell-break, slide and slide-type How to use them is explained bellow

cell-break

.. jupyter::
    :cell-break:

it is used to break a markdown_cell in two, this is done for example, when a paragraph is too large to fit in one slide.

slide

If the user wants to create a notebook where the cells are converted into slides the folowing code needs to be included at the top of the .rst file.

.. jupyter::
    :slide: {{enable/disable}}

:slide: enable activates the slideshow metadata into the jupyter notebook, setting as a default value that each cell is a slide. The directive detects automatically the different cells (going from a markdown_cell to a code_cell for example), but also new cells are created when a subtitle is detected. If the user wants to force a new cell, the option cell-break can be added.

slide-type

The default value for each cell would be slide. If the user wants to change the upcoming cell to something different (subslide, fragment, notes, skip) the following code must be included

.. jupyter::
    :slide-type: subslide

Other Supported Directives

1. .. note:: - the raw contents of this directive is included into the notebook as a block quote with a Note title. 1. .. only:: - this will skip any only content that is not jupyter

Configuration

The following additions must be made to conf.py file.

# --------------------------------------------
# sphinxcontrib-jupyter Configuration Settings
# --------------------------------------------

# Conversion Mode Settings
# If "all", convert codes and texts into jupyter notebook
# If "code", convert code-blocks only
jupyter_conversion_mode = "all"

jupyter_write_metadata = True

# Location for _static folder
jupyter_static_file_path = ["_static"]

# Configure Jupyter Kernels
jupyter_kernels = {
    "python3": {
        "kernelspec": {
            "display_name": "Python",
            "language": "python3",
            "name": "python3"
            },
        "file_extension": ".py",
    },
    "julia": {
        "kernelspec": {
            "display_name": "Julia 0.6.0",
            "language": "julia",
            "name": "julia-0.6"
            },
        "file_extension": ".jl"
    }
}

# Configure default language for Jupyter notebooks
# Can be changed in each notebook thanks to the ..highlight:: directive
jupyter_default_lang = "python3"

# Configure Jupyter headers
jupyter_headers = {
    "python3": [
    ],
    "julia": [
    ],
}

# Prepend a Welcome Message to Each Notebook
jupyter_welcome_block = "welcome.rst"

# Solutions Configuration
jupyter_drop_solutions = True

# Tests configurations
jupyter_drop_tests = True

# Add Ipython as Synonym for tests
jupyter_lang_synonyms = ["ipython"]

# Image Prefix (enable web storage references)
# jupyter_images_urlpath = "https://github.com/QuantEcon/sphinxcontrib-jupyter/raw/master/tests/_static/"

TODO

1. remove need for Jupyter headers from configuration
2. include support for adding output to In cells to give a precompiled look to generated notebook
3. Issues list

Credits

This project is supported by QuantEcon

Many thanks to the contributors of this project.

• @mmcky
• @myuuuuun
• @NickSifniotis

Projects using Extension

1. QuantEcon Lectures

If you find this extension useful please let us know at [email protected]

LICENSE

Copyright © 2018 QuantEcon Development Team: BSD-3 All rights reserved.

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