In the IPython notebook, you can execute an outside script, say test.py, using the run magic:
%run test.py Is there a way to do the opposite, i.e. given an IPython notebook, accessing and then running a particular cell inside it from a python script?
The file with extention "ipynb" of Jupyter (or IPython) is a JSON file. And the cells are under the name "cells" ["cells"]. Then you choose the number of the cell [0] and to get the source choose "source" ["source"]. In return you get an array with one element so you need to get the first element [0].
>>> import json >>> from pprint import pprint >>> with open('so1.ipynb', 'r') as content_file: ... content = content_file.read() ... >>> data=json.loads(content) >>> data["cells"][0]["source"][0] '1+1' >>> eval(data["cells"][0]["source"][0]) 2 >>> data["cells"][1]["source"][0] '2+2' >>> eval(data["cells"][1]["source"][0]) 4 EDIT:
To run other python scripts in cells that have %run:
os.system(data["cells"][2]["source"][0].replace("%run ","")) Or replace it with the following if you have -i option:
execfile(data["cells"][2]["source"][0].replace("%run -i ","")) See Run a python script from another python script, passing in args for more info.
