notedown 1.0.3

[notedown] is a simple tool to create [IPython notebooks][ipython] from markdown.

[ipython]: http://www.ipython.org/notebook [notedown]: http://github.com/aaren/notedown

Usage:

notedown input.md > output.ipynb

Installation:

pip install notedown

It is really simple and separates your markdown into code and not code. Code goes into code cells, not-code goes into markdown cells.

Fenced code blocks annotated with a language other than python are read into cells using IPython’s %% [cell magic][].

[cell magic]: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/ipython/ipython/blob/1.x/examples/notebooks/Cell%20Magics.ipynb

### Why?

I don’t know. Maybe you prefer writing in markdown.

### What notedown does not do:

• run code cells

• embed figures

### Conversion from notebook to markdown

Converting from an IPython notebook to markdown is done using nbconvert:

ipython nbconvert notebook.ipynb –to markdown

The IPython markdown export is currently quite basic, so you can’t expect to convert markdown -> notebook -> markdown and get back your original markdown.

### Running an IPython Notebook

You can open the notebook in your browser with

ipython notebook your_notebook.ipynb

and use Cell -> Run all in the menu.

You can run notebooks non-interactively from the command line using [runipy][]:

pip install runipy runipy your_notebook.ipynb

### TODO

• [x] support more markdowns

• [ ] allow other cell types?

• [x] allow different language code cells (using %%lang magic)

• [ ] allow code attributes? pass to cell creator?

• [x] code block format agnostic (fenced / indented)