Yeah, that's true. You can use an explicit display(last_line), but it's not quite as convenient as just displaying the last line explicitly.
On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 10:31 PM Tony Hirst <[email protected]> wrote: > Good spot - but if I do that, then the last line in the block doesn't > return a displayed output? Which I was using for testing purposes in the > dev notebook? > > --tony > > On Thursday, 22 March 2018 11:36:07 UTC, Johannes Feist wrote: > >> In case you are not aware of the possibility, what I have been doing for >> this case is the "standard" python approach, i.e., simply guard the part >> that shouldn't run upon import with >> if __name__=='__main__': >> statements. When you execute a notebook interactively, __name__ is >> defined as '__main__', so the code will run, but when you import it with >> the hooks you mention, __name__ is set to the module name, and the code >> behind the if doesn't run. Of course it makes the notebook look a bit more >> ugly, but it works well, allows to develop modules as notebooks with >> included tests, and has the advantage of being immediately visible/obvious >> (as opposed to metadata). >> >> Best, >> Johannes >> >> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 11:23 AM Tony Hirst <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Recipes such as >>> http://jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.io/en/stable/examples/Notebook/Importing%20Notebooks.html >>> provide a means for importing the contents of a notebook as a module, but >>> they do so by executing all code cells. >>> >>> My development notebooks tend to have functions defined as well as lots >>> of little test cells that test the functions, or that include literal bits >>> of code that I'm trying to test before working them up into a function. >>> >>> Sometimes I want to make use of the functions in other notebooks, but >>> don't want to run all the other bits of code. >>> >>> I was thinking it might be handy to define some code cell metadata >>> ('exportable':boolean, perhaps), that I could set on a code cell to say >>> whether that cell was exportable as a notebook-module function or just >>> littering a notebook as a bit of development testing. >>> >>> The notebook-as-module recipe would then test to see whether a notebook >>> cell was not just a code cell, but an exportable code cell, before running >>> it. The metadata could also hook into a custom template that could export >>> the notebook as python with the code cells set to *exportable:False* >>> commented out. >>> >>> Is anyone using such a recipe? Does it help with workflow? >>> >>> --tony >>> >>> -- >>> 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/eba8e9fe-2173-4917-adb4-89a802f35b26%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/eba8e9fe-2173-4917-adb4-89a802f35b26%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> >> Johannes Feist >> IFIMAC & Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada >> Universidad Autónoma de Madrid >> > [email protected] >> > -- > 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/c69e6828-57b4-46bb-9e7a-06247de626f9%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/c69e6828-57b4-46bb-9e7a-06247de626f9%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Johannes Feist IFIMAC & Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada Universidad Autónoma de Madrid [email protected] -- 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/CAPERba1xskN1tD2sA2Hu9t%3Dodrzb9x%2Bem0Vpyp6%3D2MyNSqOg4w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
