Including a notebook in another notebook in IPython?

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I have a notebook which I intend to use as a library for other notebooks. It has some functions that can ready certain types of files etc.

How can I include that notebook in a new notebook that should be able to use the functions in the library notebook?

https://stackoverflow.com/q/20186344/478206, https://stackoverflow.com/q/19082397/478206 and https://stackoverflow.com/q/19564625/478206 are all asking the same question. — Robie Basak, Dec 05 '17 at 13:57

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 08 '18 at 20:53

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You can just enter %run 'NotebookA.ipynb' in Notebook B and you should be good to go!

answered Jan 08 '18 at 20:53

Mike Chan

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Just curious. Is it possible to include a relative path to the other runbook? If not, how about a full path? For some reason, %run is appending .py to the end of my filename. – Calab Oct 16 '20 at 15:28

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 29 '13 at 20:10

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googling for notebook import hook yield some examples. This is still experimental, but you are welcomed to improved it. I would suggest also using the --script flag that save an importable .py file every time you save the notebook.

answered Sep 29 '13 at 20:10

Matt

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That script flag is very handy. Thanks! – kasperhj Oct 18 '13 at 08:50
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I'm sorry, how to use the --script flag? – backslash112 Sep 06 '16 at 13:20

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 29 '17 at 17:26

With import_ipynb library using A.ipynb from B.ipynb is as simple as writing

import import_ipynb
import A

in B.ipynb.

Actually this library is just one file I've taken from the official jupyter howto and wrapped into a package installable via

pip install import-ipynb

It's also possible to write from A import foo, from A import * and so on.

Including a notebook in another notebook in IPython?

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