Jupytext¶

Automatically convert notebook files to .py files

Install¶

conda install -c conda-forge jupytext

Settings¶

In repo add jupytext.toml:

# Always pair ipynb files with a light python script
formats = "ipynb,py:light"

Settings in Jupyter Lab

• Go to Settings > Settings Editor.

• In the Jupytext section, add the following:

  {
    "auto:light": true,
    "auto:percent": false,
    "md": false,
    "md:myst": true
  }
  

  This tells JupyterLab to automatically pair .ipynb notebooks with .py (Python script) files with the light format.

Sync¶

Then manually sync all notebook files in current and subfolders to .py:

jupytext --set-formats ipynb,py:light --sync **/*.ipynb

We can also manually convert to notebook or back using:

jupytext --to py notebook.ipynb
jupytext --to ipynb notebook.py