Allow code to be executed in markdown blocks and insert result

[theideasmith]

I was thinking that for researchers who are doing analysis from within jupyter it would be really nice if the results from some computation could be automatically pasted into the textual discussion of the results. Assuming the delimiter & is used

Example
Consider the following function:

from math import sin, pi
def f(x): return sin(x)

Let us now compute &f(pi)& => 0

Here we've actually called a function from within a markdown block and inserted its result in place of the function call.

[takluyver]

We've discussed this multiple times, and there's an extension that tries to do it. We don't want to implement it in the notebook directly until CommonMark agrees on a decent extension syntax for Markdown, so we're not just introducing extra ad-hoc additions to the markdown syntax.

[theideasmith]

Ok thanks so much!

On Nov 22, 2016, at 11:53 AM, Thomas Kluyver notifications@github.com wrote:

We've discussed this multiple times, and there's an extension http://jupyter-contrib-nbextensions.readthedocs.io/en/latest/nbextensions/python-markdown/readme.html that tries to do it. We don't want to implement it in the notebook directly until CommonMark agrees on a decent extension syntax for Markdown, so we're not just introducing extra ad-hoc additions to the markdown syntax.

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[gnestor]

One other option is to use IPython.display.Markdown in a code cell:

from IPython.display import Markdown

one = 1
two = 2
three = one + two

Markdown("# Title")
Markdown("""
# Math
## Addition
Here is a simple addition example: {one} + {two} = {three}
""".format(one=one, two=two, three=three))

There is an active discussion happening on ipython (ipython/ipython#2958) so let's close this and move the discussion over there.

[drorata]

@takluyver Is there any update from the CommonMark front?

[kitaev-chen]

I think you need this:

neuron for Visual Studio Code
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=neuron.neuron-IPE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amuV0z9eVg4

it's powerful but still a little bit hard to use. hopefully, it can be better in the future so we can write jupyter notebook in vs code.