Mix of¶

Markdown cells
code cells

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conf = 'PGOpen 2014'

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conf

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'PGOpen 2014'

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series_name, year = conf.split()
next_year = int(year) + 1

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print('See you again at %s %d!' % (series_name, next_year))

See you again at PGOpen 2015!

Enhancements¶

Tab-completion, help¶

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con

Operating-system integration¶

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ls

book.ipynb           notebook_demo.ipynb                 run_htsql.sh*
clean_db.sh*         pgopen2014_datascience.clean.ipynb  run_nb.sh*
got-one-already.gif  pgopen2014_datascience.ipynb        run_sandman.sh*
knights.pgdump.sql   pgo.pgdump.sql                      sample_data/
LICENSE              README.md                           test_slides.ipynb

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!head not

head: cannot open ‘not’ for reading: No such file or directory

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files = !ls

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files

Out[8]:

['book.ipynb',
 'clean_db.sh',
 'got-one-already.gif',
 'knights.pgdump.sql',
 'LICENSE',
 'notebook_demo.ipynb',
 'pgopen2014_datascience.clean.ipynb',
 'pgopen2014_datascience.ipynb',
 'pgo.pgdump.sql',
 'README.md',
 'run_htsql.sh',
 'run_nb.sh',
 'run_sandman.sh',
 'sample_data',
 'test_slides.ipynb']

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%%perl
@languages = ( "bash", "perl", "ruby" );

for $lang ( @languages )  {
	print "You could write cells in $lang\n";
}

You could write cells in bash
You could write cells in perl
You could write cells in ruby

Uses¶

Persistent experiments
Self-documenting processes
Rich status reports
Web-publish with nbviewer
Presentations with live_reveal

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