[IPython-dev] API to Modify Notebook Metadata

[Matthias Bussonnier]

I suppose the answer will be that the kernel does not know it is runned from a notebook, so no, no python API to manipulate the document. Storing provenance of data files and library is out of scope for IPython. 

Have a look at Konrad hinsen active paper that is made to do that and work with notebook.

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> Le 14 sept. 2014 à 05:51, Jason Grout <jason-sage at creativetrax.com> a écrit :
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>> On 9/13/14, 17:55, MinRK wrote:
>> It’s relatively straightforward to do this from Javascript:
>> 
>> |IPython.notebook.metadata.key ="value";
>> |
>> 
>> There isn’t an API to use from Python, other than raw execution of the
>> above javascript:
>> 
>> |from  IPython.displayimport  display_javascript
>> display_javascript('IPython.notebook.metadata.key = "value";', raw=True)
>> |
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> 
> That display_javascript won't work once the iframe security mechanisms 
> are introduced, will it?  I think it would be really useful to have a 
> natural way to access/modify the notebook metadata dict from python.  Or 
> more generally, a way to store some metadata information about the 
> current session that should be available the next time this code is run 
> or be available as part of the metadata for the current "document" of 
> code (whatever that means in the current context).
> 
> Perhaps we could have something like having 
> get_ipython().notebook.metadata be an eventful dict that synchronizes 
> with the javascript.
> 
> I know this discussion of whether the kernel should be aware of the 
> frontend has come up before in various contexts, and I think it will 
> keep coming up.
> 
> Jason
> 
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