In short: don't use NbConvertApp. The application machinery is there to support the command line interface. If you're using it from Python code, use an exporter object instead, as described here:
http://nbconvert.readthedocs.io/en/latest/nbconvert_library.html On 28 September 2017 at 22:00, Rick Gerkin <[email protected]> wrote: > I am trying to use the Python API to convert notebooks from within a > program. I have no problem using the command line nbconvert, but can't > find any examples anywhere of NbConvertApp used (rather than documented). > Does someone know what the Python equivalent of this command line statement > would be: > > jupyter nbconvert --to python my_notebook.ipynb > > I am trying things like: > > from nbconvert import nbconvertapp > x.convert_single_notebook('my_notebook.ipynb') > > but am getting errors that do not occur on the command line. It would be > useful if the documentation had a few or even one example(s) of this API in > use. > > Thanks, > Rick > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Project Jupyter" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/jupyter/ea407c58-af56-499c-92ff-5b10957270db%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/ea407c58-af56-499c-92ff-5b10957270db%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Jupyter" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/CAOvn4qgkgPkZeSpYZv1yF3rBxjv8nymHeA5hkWi4g2GCakY38Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
