Modularize Jupyter notebook preamble

Question

I have a set of Jupyter notebooks, all of which need the same lines of code to initialize. The initialization contains:

• IPython magic commands (such as %matplotlib inline and %load_ext autoreload)
• importing modules
• configuring some settings, such as plot style

I am looking for a good way to put this code into a module that can be imported and ideally called with something like:

import preamble
preamble.run()

For the initialization code it is easy to do, but what about the module imports and magic commands?

Answer 1

You may instead use a jupyter notebook for that.

Simply put all your code into preamble.ipynb and run it in your first cell with:

%run ./preamble.ipynb