[yt-dev] Updating documentation notebook and notebook dependency to IPython 4

Michael Zingale michael.zingale at stonybrook.edu
Tue Oct 20 14:39:33 PDT 2015


it might be good to look at what version of ipython some popular linux
distros ship with.  I don't think that many are on 4 yet, but seem to be
shipping with 3.2.


On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Cameron Hummels <chummels at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> With this new format, what is the way to edit notebooks (e.g. in the
>>> docs)?  We won't be able to edit the .ipynb file directly with a text
>>> editor?  How now?
>>>
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>> You can if you want, but you'll need IPython 4.0 or newer to edit the
>> notebooks in the notebook browser interface.
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>
> Right you have to edit it with a text editor or install IPython 2.x. This
> is annoying because 2.x is getting pretty long in the tooth and many people
> (well, me) don't have it installed anymore.
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>>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Would anyone object to me updating the install script dependency and
>>>> notebook dependency to IPython 4.x?
>>>>
>>>> Right now it's quite annoying to edit the notebooks in the
>>>> documentation, since you basically need to either edit them "by hand" (e.g.
>>>> by directly editing the .ipynb file in a text editor) or update to IPython
>>>> 2.x. It also causes a possibly scary to a new user pop-up box when opening
>>>> the notebooks warning that notebook has been automatically converted to the
>>>> new format.
>>>>
>>>> The down side of doing this update is that people on older versions of
>>>> IPython will no longer be able to read the notebooks. In addition, we will
>>>> need to update our build automation and sphinx setup to use the newer
>>>> version of IPython.
>>>>
>>>> My ultimate goal is to make sure our docs are fully compatible with
>>>> both python2 and python3, but I figure if I'm going over the full docs
>>>> build I might as well update the IPython dependency as well.
>>>>
>>>> -Nathan
>>>>
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>>> Department of Astronomy
>>> California Institute of Technology
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