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A replacement could be jupyter-book.

knitpy: Elegant, flexible and fast dynamic report generation with python

This is a port of knitr (http://yihui.name/knitr/) and rmarkdown (http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/) to python.

To start with, you can run the example overview document. To convert to all defined output formats, run knitpy --to="all" -- examples\knitpy_overview.pymd. This will produce a html, docx and pdf output (if you have pdflatex in path). You can view a markdown rendered and a html rendered version of this file. It's not yet as pretty as the knitr version...

For a description of the code format see http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/ and replace {r <r style options>} by {python <python style options>} and of course use python code blocks...

It uses the IPython kernel infrastructure to execute code, so all kernels for IPython are (aem... can potentially be) supported.

What works:

  • code blocks and inline code
  • plots are shown inline
  • knitpy filename.pymd will convert filename filename.pymd to the default output format html.
  • output formats html, pdf and docx. Change with --to=<format>
  • --to=all will convert to all export formats specified in the yaml header
  • code chunk arguments eval, results (apart form "hold"), include and echo
  • errors in code chunks are shown in the document
  • uses the IPython display framework, so rich output for objects implementing _repr_html_() or _repr_markdown_(). Mimetypes not understood by the final output format are automatically converted via pandoc.
  • config files: generate an empty one with knitpy --init --profile-dir=.
  • using it from python (-> your app/ ipython notebook): import knitpy; knitpy.render(filename.pymd, output="html") will convert filename.pymd to filename.html. output=all will convert to all document types (as specified in the YAML header of the document). The call will return a list of converted documents.
  • debugging with ``--debug, --kernel-debug=True`, `--output-debug=True`

What does not work (=everything else :-) ):

  • most YAML headers are currently ignored
  • some advertised command-line options are ignored
  • most code chunk arguments (apart from the ones above) are ignored
  • probably lots of other stuff...

Todo

  • fix the above...
  • refactor the parsing, so that it is line based
    • errors make more sense, because it knows the line ("block starting at line....")
  • add some traits for the default pdflatex/pandoc executeable, so they don't have to be in path
  • the final output has to configure the "includeable" markup docs
    • html in html
    • latex in html?
    • ...
  • more arguments for code blocks
  • more output formats? -> make output format configurable
  • more unit-/outputtests...
    • codeblocks + inline
    • yaml
    • errors
    • pandoc caller (via mocks?)
  • Documentation
    • what works? what is not supported?
    • differences to rmarkdown / knitr?
  • implement more kernel engines (R...) and make it possible to supply/change ones (for installed kernels for python2/3 or coda environments)
  • implement a nice default html template
  • implement "code tidying"
  • use metadata in keep_md output (like rmarkdown does...
    • should output #<title>\n<author>\n<date> before the rest
    • remove the first yaml block, but keep everything else...
  • chunk caching

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