blab Tools for Jupyter

Some Jupyter Tools, see jupyter directory

Install

pip install blab

Usage

Put this code in the first cell of your notebook:

# blab init
try:
    import blab
except ImportError as e:
    !pip install blab
    import blab    
startup_notebook = blab.blab_startup()
%run $startup_notebook  

Features

• Finds a local folder named libs and integrates it into the Python path. Useful for your own private libraries.
• loads autoreload
• loads ipytest
• configures %matplotlib inline
• Tool: run_notebooks: Starts all notebooks in the directory in alphabetical order
• Tool: search_notebooks: Searches notebooks for occurrences of a string (wrapper for nbconvert)
• Tool: raise Stop: Ends the execution of a notebook and displays the elapsed time
• Tool: bgc('orange'): Sets the backbround color of a notebook cell (does not work in colab)