Changes in nbconvert¶
5.4¶
Significant Changes¶
Deprecations¶
Python 3.3 support was dropped. The version of python is no longer common and new versions have many fixes and interface improvements that warrant the change in support.
See PR #843 for implementation details.
Changes in how we handle metadata¶
There were a few new metadata fields which are now respected in nbconvert.
nb.metadata.authors
metadata attribute will be respected in latex exports. Multiple authors will be added with ,
separation against their names.
nb.metadata.title
will be respected ahead of nb.metadata.name
for title assignment. This better matches with the notebook format.
nb.metadata.filename
will override the default output_filename_template
when extracting notebook resources in the ExtractOutputPreprocessor
. The attribute is helpful for when you want to consistently fix to a particular output filename, especially when you need to set image filenames for your exports.
The raises-exception
cell tag (nb.cells[].metadata.tags[raises-exception]
) allows for cell exceptions to not halt execution. The tag is respected in the same way by nbval and other notebook interfaces. nb.metadata.allow_errors
will apply this rule for all cells. This feature is toggleable with the force_raise_errors
configuration option.
Errors from executing the notebook can be allowed with a raises-exception
tag on a single cell, or the allow_errors
configurable option for all cells. An allowed error will be recorded in notebook output, and execution will continue.
If an error occurs when it is not explicitly allowed, a CellExecutionError
will be raised.
If force_raise_errors
is True, CellExecutionError
will be raised for any error that occurs while executing the notebook. This overrides both the allow_errors
option and the raises-exception
cell tags.
See PR #867, PR #703, PR #685, PR #672, and PR #684 for implementation changes.
Configurable kernel managers when executing notebooks¶
The kernel manager can now be optionally passed into the ExecutePreprocessor.preprocess
and the executenb
functions as the keyword argument km
. This means that the kernel can be configured as desired before beginning preprocessing.
This is useful for executing in a context where the kernel has external dependencies that need to be set to non-default values. An example of this might be a Spark kernel where you wish to configure the Spark cluster location ahead of time without building a new kernel.
Overall the ExecutePreprocessor has been reworked to make it easier to use. Future releases will continue this trend to make this section of the code more inheritable and reusable by others. We encourage you read the source code for this version if you’re interested in the detailed improvements.
See PR #852 for implementation changes.
Surfacing exporters in front-ends¶
Exporters are now exposed for front-ends to consume, including classic notebook. As an example, this means that latex exporter will be made available for latex ‘text/latex’ media type from the Download As interface.
Raw Templates¶
Template exporters can now be assigned raw templates as string attributes by setting the raw_template
variable.
See PR #675 for implementation changes.
New command line flags¶
The --no-input
will hide input cells on export. This is great for notebooks which generate “reports” where you want the code that was executed to not appear by default in the extracts.
An alias for notebook
was added to exporter commands. Now --to ipynb
will behave as --to notebook
does.
Comprehensive notes¶
New Features¶
- No input flag (
--no-input
) PR #825 - Add alias
--to ipynb
for notebook exporter PR #873 - Add
export_from_notebook
PR #864 - If set, use
nb.metadata.authors
for LaTeX author line PR #867 - Populate language_info metadata when executing PR #860
- Support for
\mathscr
PR #830 - Allow the execute preprocessor to make use of an existing kernel PR #852
- Refactor ExecutePreprocessor PR #816
- Update widgets CDN for ipywidgets 7 w/fallback PR #792
- Add support for adding custom exporters to the “Download as” menu. PR #759
- Enable ANSI underline and inverse PR #696
- Update notebook css to 5.4.0 PR #748
- Change default for slides to direct to the reveal cdn rather than locally PR #732
- Use “title” instead of “name” for metadata to match the notebook format PR #703
- Img filename metadata PR #685
- Added MathJax compatibility definitions PR #687
- Per cell exception PR #684
- Simple API for in-memory templates PR #674 PR #675
- Set BIBINPUTS and BSTINPUTS environment variables when making PDF PR #676
- If
nb.metadata.title
is set, default to that for notebook PR #672
Fixing Problems¶
- Fix api break PR #872
- Don’t remove empty cells by default PR #784
- Handle attached images in html converter PR #780
- No need to check for the channels already running PR #862
- Update
font-awesome
version for slides PR #793 - Properly treat JSON data PR #847
- Skip executing empty code cells PR #739
- Ppdate log.warn (deprecated) to log.warning PR #804
- Cleanup notebook.tex during PDF generation PR #768
- Windows unicode error fixed, nosetest added to setup.py PR #757
- Better content hiding; template & testing improvements PR #734
- Fix Jinja syntax in custom template example. PR #738
- Fix for an issue with empty math block PR #729
- Add parser for Multiline math for LaTeX blocks PR #716 PR #717
- Use defusedxml to parse potentially untrusted XML PR #708
- Fixes for traitlets 4.1 deprecation warnings PR #695
Testing, Docs, and Builds¶
- A couple of typos PR #870
- Add python_requires metadata. PR #871
- Document
--inplace
command line flag. PR #839 - Fix minor typo in
usage.rst
PR #863 - Add note about local
reveal_url_prefix
PR #844 - Move
onlyif_cmds_exist
decorator to test-specific utils PR #854 - Include LICENSE file in wheels PR #827
- Added Ubuntu Linux Instructions PR #724
- Check for too recent of pandoc version PR #814 PR #872
- Removing more nose remnants via dependencies. PR #758
- Remove offline statement and add some clarifications in slides docs PR #743
- Linkify PR number PR #710
- Added shebang for python PR #694
- Upgrade mistune dependency PR #705
- add feature to improve docs by having links to prs PR #662
- Update notebook CSS from version 4.3.0 to 5.1.0 PR #682
- Explicitly exclude or include all files in Manifest. PR #670
5.3¶
Major features¶
Tag Based Element Filtering¶
For removing individual elements from notebooks, we need a way to signal to nbconvert that the elements should be removed. With this release, we introduce the use of tags for that purpose.
Tags are user-defined strings attached to cells or outputs. They are stored in cell or output metadata. For more on tags see the nbformat docs on cell metadata.
Usage:
- Apply tags to the elements that you want to remove.
For removing an entire cell, the cell input, or all cell outputs apply the tag to the cell.
For removing individual outputs, put the tag in the output metadata
using a call like display(your_output_element, metadata={tags=[<your_tags_here>]})
.
NB: Use different tags depending on whether you want to remove the entire cell, the input, all outputs, or individual outputs.
- Add the tags for removing the different kinds of elements to the following traitlets. Which kind of element you want to remove determines which traitlet you add the tags to.
The following traitlets remove elements of different kinds:
remove_cell_tags
: removes cellsremove_input_tags
: removes inputsremove_all_outputs_tag
: removes all outputsremove_single_output_tag
: removes individual outputs
Comprehensive notes¶
- new: configurable
browser
in ServePostProcessor PR #618 - new:
--clear-output
command line flag to clear output in-place PR #619 - new: remove elements based on tags with
TagRemovePreprocessor
. PR #640, PR #643 - new: CellExecutionError can now be imported from
nbconvert.preprocessors
PR #656 - new: slides now can enable scrolling and custom transitions PR #600
- docs: Release instructions for nbviewer-deploy
- docs: improved instructions for handling errors using the
ExecutePreprocessor
PR #656 - tests: better height/width metadata testing for images in rst & html PR #601 PR #602
- tests: normalise base64 output data to avoid false positives PR #650
- tests: normalise ipython traceback messages to handle old and new style PR #631
- bug: mathjax obeys
\\(\\)
&\\[\\]
(both nbconvert & pandoc) PR #609 PR #617 - bug: specify default templates using extensions PR #639
- bug: fix pandoc version number PR #638
- bug: require recent mistune version PR #630
- bug: catch errors from IPython
execute_reply
anderror
messages PR #642 - nose completely removed & dependency dropped PR #595 PR #660
- mathjax processing in mistune now only uses inline grammar PR #611
- removeRegex now enabled by default on all TemplateExporters, does not remove cells with outputs PR #616
- validate notebook after applying each preprocessor (allowing additional attributes) PR #645
- changed COPYING.md to LICENSE for more standard licensing that GitHub knows how to read PR #654
5.2.1¶
Major features¶
In this release (along with the usual bugfixes and documentation improvements, which are legion) we have a few new major features that have been requested for a long time:
Global Content Filtering¶
You now have the ability to remove input or output from code cells, markdown cells and the input and output prompts. The easiest way to access all of these is by using traitlets like TemplateExporter.exclude_input = True (or, for example HTMLExporter.exclude_markdown = True if you wanted to make it specific to HTML output). On the command line if you just want to not have input or output prompts just use –no-prompt.
Execute notebooks from a function¶
You can now use the executenb function to execute notebooks as though you ran the execute preprocessor on the notebooks. It returns the standard notebook and resources options.
Remove cells based on regex pattern¶
This removes cells based on their matching a regex pattern (by default, empty cells). This is the RegexRemovePreprocessor.
Script exporter entrypoints for nonpython scripts¶
Now there is an entrypoint for having an exporter specific to the type of script that is being exported. While designed for use with the IRkernel in particular (with a script exporter focused on exporting R scripts) other non-python kernels that wish to have a language specific exporter can now surface that directly.
Comprehensive notes¶
- new: configurable ExecutePreprocessor.startup_timeout configurable PR #583
- new: RemoveCell preprocessor based on cell content (defaults to empty cell) PR #575
- new: function for executing notebooks: executenb PR #573
- new: global filtering to remove inputs, outputs, markdown cells (&c.), this works on all templates PR #554
- new: script exporter entrypoint PR #531
- new: configurable anchor link text (previously ¶) HTMLExporter.anchor_link_text PR #522
- new: configurable values for slides exporter PR #542 PR #558
- improved releases (how-to documentation, version-number generation and checking) PR #593
- doc improvements PR #593 PR #580 PR #565 PR #554
- language information from cell magics (for highlighting) is now included in more formats PR #586
- mathjax upgrades and cdn fixes PR #584 PR #567
- better CI PR #571 PR #540
- better traceback behaviour when execution errs PR #521
- deprecated nose test features removed PR #519
- bug fixed: we now respect width and height metadata on jpeg and png mimetype outputs PR #588
- bug fixed: now we respect the resolve_references filter in report.tplx PR #577
- bug fixed: output metadata now is removed by ClearOutputPreprocessor PR #569
- bug fixed: display id respected in execute preproessor PR #563
- bug fixed: dynamic defaults for optional jupyter_client import PR #559
- bug fixed: don’t self-close non-void HTML tags PR #548
- buf fixed: upgrade jupyter_client dependency to 4.2 PR #539
- bug fixed: LaTeX output through md→LaTeX conversion shouldn’t be touched PR #535
- bug fixed: now we escape < inside math formulas when converting to html PR #514
Credits¶
This release has been larger than previous releases. In it 33 authors contributed a total of 546 commits.
Many thanks to the following individuals who contributed to this release (in alphabetical order):
- Adam Chainz
- Andreas Mueller
- Bartosz T
- Benjamin Ragan-Kelley
- Carol Willing
- Damián Avila
- Elliot Marsden
- Gao, Xiang
- Jaeho Shin
- Jan Schulz
- Jeremy Kun
- Jessica B. Hamrick
- John B Nelson
- juhasch
- Livia Barazzetti
- M Pacer
- Matej Urbas
- Matthias Bussonnier
- Matthias Geier
- Maximilian Albert
- Michael Scott Cuthbert
- Nicholas Bollweg
- Paul Gowder
- Paulo Villegas
- Peter Parente
- Philipp A
- Scott Sanderson
- Srinivas Reddy Thatiparthy
- Sylvain Corlay
- Thomas Kluyver
- Till Hoffmann
- Xiang Gao
- YuviPanda
5.1¶
- improved CSS (specifically tables, in line with notebook) PR #498
- improve in-memory templates handling PR #491
- test improvements PR #516 PR #509 PR #505
- new configuration option: IOPub timeout PR #513
- doc improvements PR #489 PR #500 PR #493 PR #506
- newly customizable: output prompt PR #500
- more python2/3 compatibile unicode handling PR #502
5.0¶
- Use xelatex by default for latex export, improving unicode and font support.
- Use entrypoints internally to access Exporters, allowing for packages to declare custom exporters more easily.
- New ASCIIDoc Exporter.
- New preprocessor for sanitised html output.
- New general
convert_pandoc
filter to reduce the need to hard-code lists of filters in templates. - Use pytest, nose dependency to be removed.
- Refactored Exporter code to avoid ambiguity and cyclic dependencies.
- Update to traitlets 4.2 API.
- Fixes for Unicode errors when showing execution errors on Python 2.
- Default math font matches default Palatino body text font.
- General documentation improvements. For example, testing, installation, custom exporters.
- Improved link handling for LaTeX output
- Refactored the automatic id generation.
- New kernel_manager_class configuration option for allowing systems to be set up to resolve kernels in different ways.
- Kernel errors now will be logged for debugging purposes when executing notebooks.
4.2¶
- Custom Exporters can be provided by external packages, and registered with nbconvert via setuptools entrypoints.
- allow nbconvert reading from stdin with
--stdin
option (write intonotebook
basename) - Various ANSI-escape fixes and improvements
- Various LaTeX/PDF export fixes
- Various fixes and improvements for executing notebooks with
--execute
.
4.1¶
- setuptools fixes for entrypoints on Windows
- various fixes for exporters, including slides, latex, and PDF
- fixes for exceptions met during execution
- include markdown outputs in markdown/html exports