Running a Jupyter notebook from another notebook with parameters

Question

I want to run a full Jupyter notebook in a cycle, passing different parameters for each run of the notebook. I can pass parameters with addons as explained here: Passing command line arguments to argv in jupyter/ipython notebook, but this seems overly cumbersome. Is there a more simple and straight-forward way of doing this?

Answer 1

Parameters (variables of notebook being called) can simply be initialised in cell before %run is called. In calling notebook:

for i in range (1,3):
    for j in range (0,4):
        param1 = i
        param2 = j 
        %run ./foo.ipynb

In order to be able to initialise these variables in notebook being run to facilitate to be used separately (to run as whole) variables can be checked for existence before initialisation How do I check if a variable exists?. In foo.ipynb:

if not 'param1' in locals():
    param1 = 1

As output of several runs of whole notebook would be in one cell, autoscrolling (which is on by default) may kick in. To disable it follow Disable iPython Notebook Autoscrolling e.g. in menu cell->all output->toggle autoscrolling.