Notebook Convert pre commit hook

pre-commit hook for converting jupyter notebooks to multiple formats.

Motivation

• ✅ Jupyter Notebooks are a great tool for doing data analysis

• ✅ You should treat them like code and keep them safe and available on a git repository

• ⚠️ Jupyter Notebooks format is not so great for doing code reviews or PRs

• ⚠️ Jupyter Notebook default format is not the best for communicating with less code-literate teams

How to solve this with a commit hook

This commit hook does a couple of things for you:

• Lets you choose from a set of available formats (currently Markdown, ReStructuredText and PDF)

• When committing your notebook, it checks that it has an up to date companion format file

• If theres none, it generates one for you

Requirements

• A running Docker installation (generating different representations requires a lot of dependencies that are best encapsulated in a container)

Installation

• Install pre-commit

• Include notebook convert as one of your hooks in your .pre-commit-config.yaml:

repos:
-   repo: https://github.com/fernandezpablo85/notebook_convert
    rev: <check latest release>
    hooks:
    -   id: notebook_convert

By default it will generate Markdown output, but you can also:

• Generate reStructuredText files setting the format flag to rst

• Generate PDF files without input cells setting the format flag to pdf

For example:

repos:
-   repo: https://github.com/fernandezpablo85/notebook_convert
    rev: <check latest release>
    hooks:
    -   id: notebook_convert
        args: [--format=pdf]

(If you want more than one representation just include the hook twice 🙃)

• Run pre-commit install

• Enjoy