Filters#

Filters are for use with the nbconvert.exporters.templateexporter.TemplateExporter exporter. They provide a way for you transform notebook contents to a particular format depending on the template you are using. For example, when converting to HTML, you would want to use the ansi2html() function to convert ANSI colors (from e.g. a terminal traceback) to HTML colors.

See also

Exporters

API documentation for the various exporter classes

nbconvert.filters.add_anchor(html, anchor_link_text='¶')#

Add an id and an anchor-link to an html header

For use on markdown headings

nbconvert.filters.add_prompts(code, first='>>> ', cont='... ')#

Add prompts to code snippets

nbconvert.filters.ansi2html(text)#

Convert ANSI colors to HTML colors.

Parameters:

text (unicode) – Text containing ANSI colors to convert to HTML

nbconvert.filters.ansi2latex(text)#

Convert ANSI colors to LaTeX colors.

Parameters:

text (unicode) – Text containing ANSI colors to convert to LaTeX

nbconvert.filters.ascii_only(s)#

ensure a string is ascii

nbconvert.filters.citation2latex(s)#

Parse citations in Markdown cells.

This looks for HTML tags having a data attribute names data-cite and replaces it by the call to LaTeX cite command. The transformation looks like this:

<cite data-cite="granger">(Granger, 2013)</cite>

Becomes

\cite{granger}

Any HTML tag can be used, which allows the citations to be formatted in HTML in any manner.

nbconvert.filters.comment_lines(text, prefix='# ')#

Build a Python comment line from input text.

Parameters:

  • text (str) – Text to comment out.

  • prefix (str) – Character to append to the start of each line.

nbconvert.filters.escape_latex(text)#

Escape characters that may conflict with latex.

Parameters:

text (str) – Text containing characters that may conflict with Latex

class nbconvert.filters.DataTypeFilter(**kwargs: Any)#

Returns the preferred display format

nbconvert.filters.get_lines(text, start=None, end=None)#

Split the input text into separate lines and then return the lines that the caller is interested in.

Parameters:

  • text (str) – Text to parse lines from.

  • start (int, optional) – First line to grab from.

  • end (int, optional) – Last line to grab from.

nbconvert.filters.convert_pandoc(source, from_format, to_format, extra_args=None)#

Convert between any two formats using pandoc.

This function will raise an error if pandoc is not installed. Any error messages generated by pandoc are printed to stderr.

Parameters:

  • source (string) – Input string, assumed to be valid in from_format.

  • from_format (string) – Pandoc format of source.

  • to_format (string) – Pandoc format for output.

Returns:

out – Output as returned by pandoc.

Return type:

string

class nbconvert.filters.Highlight2HTML(**kwargs: Any)#

Convert highlighted code to html.

class nbconvert.filters.Highlight2Latex(**kwargs: Any)#

Convert highlighted code to latex.

nbconvert.filters.html2text(element)#

extract inner text from html

Analog of jQuery’s $(element).text()

nbconvert.filters.indent(instr, nspaces=4, ntabs=0, flatten=False)#

Indent a string a given number of spaces or tabstops.

indent(str,nspaces=4,ntabs=0) -> indent str by ntabs+nspaces.

Parameters:

  • instr (basestring) – The string to be indented.

  • nspaces (int (default: 4)) – The number of spaces to be indented.

  • ntabs (int (default: 0)) – The number of tabs to be indented.

  • flatten (bool (default: False)) – Whether to scrub existing indentation. If True, all lines will be aligned to the same indentation. If False, existing indentation will be strictly increased.

Returns:

str|unicode

Return type:

string indented by ntabs and nspaces.

nbconvert.filters.ipython2python(code)#

Transform IPython syntax to pure Python syntax

Parameters:

code (str) – IPython code, to be transformed to pure Python

nbconvert.filters.markdown2html(source: str) → str#

Convert a markdown string to HTML using mistune

nbconvert.filters.markdown2latex(source, markup='markdown', extra_args=None)#

Convert a markdown string to LaTeX via pandoc.

This function will raise an error if pandoc is not installed. Any error messages generated by pandoc are printed to stderr.

Parameters:
Returns:

out – Output as returned by pandoc.

Return type:

string

nbconvert.filters.markdown2rst(source, extra_args=None)#

Convert a markdown string to ReST via pandoc.

This function will raise an error if pandoc is not installed. Any error messages generated by pandoc are printed to stderr.

Parameters:

source (string) – Input string, assumed to be valid markdown.

Returns:

out – Output as returned by pandoc.

Return type:

string

nbconvert.filters.path2url(path)#

Turn a file path into a URL

nbconvert.filters.posix_path(path)#

Turn a path into posix-style path/to/etc

Mainly for use in latex on Windows, where native Windows paths are not allowed.

nbconvert.filters.prevent_list_blocks(s)#

Prevent presence of enumerate or itemize blocks in latex headings cells

nbconvert.filters.strip_ansi(source)#

Remove ANSI escape codes from text.

Parameters:

source (str) – Source to remove the ANSI from

nbconvert.filters.strip_dollars(text)#

Remove all dollar symbols from text

Parameters:

text (str) – Text to remove dollars from

nbconvert.filters.strip_files_prefix(text)#

Fix all fake URLs that start with files/, stripping out the files/ prefix. Applies to both urls (for html) and relative paths (for markdown paths).

Parameters:

text (str) – Text in which to replace ‘src=”files/real…’ with ‘src=”real…’

nbconvert.filters.wrap_text(text, width=100)#

Intelligently wrap text. Wrap text without breaking words if possible.

Parameters:

  • text (str) – Text to wrap.

  • width (int, optional) – Number of characters to wrap to, default 100.

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