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

Nathan Goldbaum nathan12343 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 20 14:14:53 PDT 2015


On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Cameron Hummels <chummels at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>

You can if you want, but you'll need IPython 4.0 or newer to edit the
notebooks in the notebook browser interface.


>
> 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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> California Institute of Technology
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