PresentPy

Create slides from Jupyter Notebooks

PresentPy allows you to take your Jupyter Notebooks and turn them into slides (compatible with PowerPoint, Keynote, LibreOffice...) that then can be integrated into your presentation decks.

Installation

You can install PresentPy directly into your Jupyter Lab installation using pip:

pip install presentpy-jupyter

If you want to use it as a standalone CLI tool, you can install it using pipx (or your favorite package manager) – the package is called presentpy:

pipx install presentpy

Otherwise, you can install it using pip or your favorite package manager – the package is called presentpy.

Usage

To turn a notebook into slides, simply run:

Usage: presentpy [OPTIONS] NOTEBOOK

  A CLI tool to convert Jupyter Notebooks to slides.

Options:
  --output PATH  Directory or file path where the output ODP file will be
                 saved. Defaults to the current directory.
  --theme TEXT   Pygments style to be applied to the presentation.Defaults to
                 'default'. See https://pygments.org/docs/styles/ for
                 available styles.
  --outputs      Include code cell outputs in the presentation.
  --help         Show this message and exit.

Code configuration

You can configure the code cells to be displayed in the slides by adding a comment on the last line of the cell. The comment should start with #% and then you can add the following options:

• title: The title of the slide
• highlights: A comma separated list of lines to highlight, each highlight could be a number or a range of lines separated by a dash, e.g. 1,3-6,6-7

Example

Consider the notebook shown below, when converted to slides using the default theme, it will look like the first image in the table below. When converted using the fruity theme, it will look like the second image.

Original notebook [view .ipynb]
Default theme [as PDF] [as Google Slides]	Fruity theme [as PDF] [as Google Slides]
Slides omitted as the only change is the highlighting of the code.

You can then use these slides in your presentation deck.