Mastering IPython 4.0

Format conversion

The Jupyter project includes a tool for format conversion called nbconvert. It is easy to invoke from the command line:

jupyter nbconvert <file>.ipynb

It leaves the original <file>.ipynb alone and produces as output <file>.html. For example, we can transform a previous example as follows:

(Ipython)-bash-4.1$ jupyter nbconvert notebook2.ipynb 
[NbConvertApp] Converting notebook notebook2.ipynb to html
[NbConvertApp] Writing 214390 bytes to notebook2.html
(Ipython)-bash-4.1$ ls
HelloWorld.ipynb  img7.png  notebook2.html  notebook2.ipynb  testnotebook.ipynb

This results in a 214K HTML file that displays as:

Note that the HTML preserves ...