Converting a Jupyter notebook to other formats with nbconvert
A Jupyter notebook is saved in a JSON text file. This file contains the entire contents of the notebook: text, code, and outputs. The Matplotlib figures are encoded as base64 strings within the notebooks, resulting in standalone, but sometimes big, notebook files.
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JSON is a human-readable, text-based, open standard format that can represent structured data. Although derived from JavaScript, it is language-independent. Its syntax bears some resemblance to Python dictionaries. JSON can be parsed in many languages including JavaScript and Python (using the json module in Python's standard library).
nbconvert (https://nbconvert.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) is a tool that can convert notebooks ...
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