Import from .ipynb file

[pykong]

Conversion functionality to allow importing/exporting with .ipynb files may be considered. Some libraries to consider:

• https://github.com/elehcimd/pynb
• https://github.com/jupyter/nbconvert

[cgahr]

I could use a similar functionality as well. If there aren't plans on solving this, I could look into it. I have some ideas on how to solve this.

I would do it like this:

• add unique keys to the metadata of the notebook, i.e. "cell_id": cell_id. This allows us the pair each cell in the notebook with a cell in the helium script.
• Create a file with cells, where each cell is identified by the cell_id, i.e.

# <cell_id>
def do_something():
    pass

• Upon saving write the code in each (Helium) cell to the respective cell in the original notebook.

What do you think?

[cgahr]

We could use JupyText. I'm already using it to convert .ipynb to .py and it works quite well.