[yt-dev] Testing new feature: Uploading IPython notebooks to the Hub

[Matthew Turk]

Hi all,

(This is preliminary!  I would love to hear about problems or other
issues you end up having with it!)

Nathan, Sam and I were chatting today about IPython notebooks.
IPython has a really neat Notebook Viewer at nbviewer.ipython.org
which accepts a URL and then renders that in the browser.  After we
played a bit with the pastebin (unsuccessfully) I added a "notebook"
type to the Hub.  So if you have a Hub user and your API key is set
correctly, you can navigate in your filesystem to an .ipynb file and
do:

yt upload_notebook that_notebook.ipynb

This will not only toss it up on the Hub (where you can download it or
pass around the URL) but it also will set up a nice little URL
redirector to pass it to the nbviewer.  So earlier I uploaded one of
Sam's notebooks and yt spit this back out at me:

--
Upload successful!

To access your raw notebook go here:

  https://hub.yt-project.org/go/i7u32m

To view your notebook go here:

  https://hub.yt-project.org/nb/i7u32m
--

If you click on that second one you can see how it gets rendered.
Pretty cool!  Anyway, let me know if it works for you or if you run
into problems.

-Matt