Excluding notebooks and/or cells in notebooks from execution

[spors]

Single notebooks or single cells in notebooks might not be able to run on a virtual machine, e.g. due to missing hardware or data. This could be addressed for instance by adding an exclude_notebook action input to the API. Excluding cells from execution could be realized by checking for some specific key in the cell metadata.

[alex-treebeard]

Hey @spors, thanks for taking the time to report this.

RE ignoring whole notebooks: Treebeard can do this with

  uses: treebeardtech/treebeard@master
  with:
    ignore: |
      a.ipynb
      c/*.ipynb

See all action inputs here: https://github.com/treebeardtech/treebeard/blob/master/action.yml and an example

RE ignoring expected exceptions in cells, I am working on a lower level library which will permit this and a lot more. So let me know if you have any interesting use cases or requirements.

[spors]

Sorry I have missed this option. Works perfect for entire notebooks!

[alex-treebeard]

hey @spors I'm not sure where you got to with this but if using the treebeard action I'd recommend looking at migrate to nbmake which is faster and more portable.