rst2ipynb

This project provides a way to convert standalone reStructuredText files to Jupyter notebook files.

This is currently achieved by converting to markdown using pandoc and then to a Jupyter notebook using notedown, plus some configuration and tweaks. A better approach would be to implement a proper Jupyter-export extension for Sphinx.

NEWS (2017-10): you may want to explore the recent https://github.com/QuantEcon/sphinxcontrib-jupyter/ that does just this.

Requirements

Python 3 (for proper UTF-8 support in notedown), pandoc, notedown

Installation

Install pandoc and then this module as usual:

git clone https://github.com/nthiery/rst-to-ipynb.git
cd rst-to-ipynb
pip3 install .

pip3 will install the other dependencies as needed.

For [SageMath](http://sagemath.org) users: rst2ipynb is an optional package that you may install with:

sage -i rst2ipynb

then you can run it with:

sage -rst2ipynb ...

For [Cocalc](http://cocalc.org) users: rst2ipynb is already installed.

Usage

To convert a reST file xxx.rst to a Jupyter notebook xxx.ipynb, run:

rst2ipynb xxx.rst -o xxx.ipynb

Example

• reST document: all.rst
• Produced Jupyter notebook: all.ipynb

TODO

• [X] Handle Sage's doctests

• [X] Fenced code blocks: fix incompatibility between pandoc output and notedown input.

  Fixed in notedown; see: aaren/notedown#29.

• [ ] Configurability of the default ReST role, in particular to handle maths in Sage's ReST dialect.

  Current status: hardcoded for Sage.

• [ ] Configurability of custom ReST roles, in particular to handle Sage's custom roles

• [ ] Proper argument parsing; escape characters, spaces, ... are not

  yet supported

• [ ] Handle input/output blocks within itemize and other indented constructions

  See aaren/notedown#33

Acknowledgements

rst2ipynb was partially funded by [OpenDreamKit](http://opendreamkit.org)