[IPython-dev] storing variables *in* the notebook

[Zoltán Vörös]

William,


Thanks for the comment, I will keep a tab on this issue.


Cheers,

Zoltán


On 01/26/2017 09:26 PM, William Stein wrote:
> Hi Zoltán,
>
> This is an interesting problem and idea.  Not that it would matter to
> you, but we'll very likely implement this for SageMathCloud [1] using
> our global blob store, which is also how we deal with graphics in a
> way that keeps files small and makes copy paste between worksheets
> possible.  I've made this issue:
>
>     https://github.com/sagemathinc/smc/issues/1594
>
> William
>
> [1] https://cloud.sagemath.com
>
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 11:57 AM, Loper, Jackson
> <jackson_loper at brown.edu> wrote:
>> Zoltán --
>>
>> I am very curious to know why you want the data embedded in the ipynb file,
>> instead of storing a file in the same directory.  Is it so you can share
>> files with colleagues?  If so, why not just share the whole directory?  Is
>> it just too bulky?  Just curious as to what your motivation is.
>>
>> Anywho, if you really want to do it, and you're in the mood, I think it
>> would be fairly straightforward to make a combined python/javascript plugin
>> that allowed one to conveniently store code cells of the form
>>
>>    # This is a datacell.  If you do not have the datacell javascript
>> extension,
>>    # this code cell may look really really long.  Sorry about that.
>>    x =
>> pickle.loads(b"\x80\x03}q\x00(X\x07\x00\x00\x00Purposeq\x01X$\x00\x00\x00Very
>> important data just for
>> Kluyverq\x02X\x07\x00\x00\x00Contentq\x03X\r\x00\x00\x00You're
>> great!q\x04u.")
>>
>> and make them appear in the notebook as a "data cell" that looks like
>>
>>    x = pickle.loads(<<<content abridged>>>)
>>
>> Such a data cell would be uneditable, but could be executed.
>>
>> I think the simplest way to do this would be to design an ipython widget
>> that, when it comes online, adds such a "data cell" directly after the
>> current one.  Creating a cell should then be as simple as
>>
>>    datacells.make_data_cell(varname='x',data="Hello world.")
>>
>> I could be missing something that makes this utterly impossible though.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Jackson Loper
>> Division of Applied Math
>> Brown University
>>
>>
>>
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