spyder-ide/spyder-notebook

Jupyter notebook integration with Spyder

spyder-notebook's Issues

Hide server cmd.exe windows on Windows

The idea is to pass the right arguments to subprocess.Popen here

https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-notebook/blob/master/spyder_notebook/utils/nbopen.py#L57

to avoid showing cmd.exe windows when starting new servers.

@dalthviz, please take a look at sympy/sympy#12391 to see how to fix it.

Rename "Open a new notebook" action to "New notebook"

This is a very simple change but it's meant to better follow what we have in Spyder's File menu.

Besides, now that we're going to have an Open action (thanks to PR #35), having two entries that start with Open is confusing.

Add test that verifies that plugin starts and creates new notebooks

Rename the plugin to Notebook

Following the talk in this PR to rename the plugin from Jupyter Notebook to just Notebook

Use versioneer instead of manual version string

Check compatibility for PyQt4 and WebEngine

This plugin doesn't work when Spyder is using PyQt4, so we need to disable it in that case.

That's because the websockets implementation of QtWebKit in Qt4 is too old to run the notebook.

Add a menu entry to open an IPython console

We should add a menu entry to our Options menu, and also a button to the notebook tabbar, to open an IPython console in Spyder connected to the kernel of the current notebook.

Hide header

We don't need to display the header in our notebooks. This can be done once we have the extension to use our own fonts.

Add nbextension to set notebook fonts using Spyder ones

This requires enabling and disabling the extension for every server we start

Feature request: Open notebooks from a server

I just watched the spyder talk at SciPy and really liked this plugin. I think my students would prefer this over the JupyterHub interface and it would be nice if a user could open Spyder locally and then open notebooks from a server (like jupyterhub). This would allow me to manage the software installed on the server, accept their assigments, etc, and then they can use spyder.

Create conda package

Create an Options menu with a way to move notebooks

So people could use an untitled notebook to do some exploratory work and then they'd like to rename and move that notebook to another place.

We need to add an option in the Options menu of the notebook to do exactly that :-)

@dalthviz, please work on this one too.

Pandas Dataframes are not rendered as html tables but as plain text

I noticed this during my Scipy talk

Add an "Open recent" menu

This menu should go below Open and contain the last 20 notebooks opened by the user.

So the structure of this plugin's menu should be

New notebook
Open
Open recent > (submenu with the list of notebooks)
--------
Save as...

Modify %qtconsole magic to open a console in Spyder

We need to do this at the Spyder kernel level.

[Errno 2] No such file or directory message

From the review in PR #16: a message appears in the notebook pointing an error:

This happen to me in Windows 8.1 with Spyder 3.0.2 and Python 3.

Update Readme

Now that we are very close to release 0.1, I think it's time to update our Readme with a simple description and a couple of screenshots.

@dalthviz, please take care of this one. You can take as inspiration:

https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-terminal/blob/master/README.md

but please leave the warning about this not being ready until we release 0.1. I'll remove that warning when we actually do the release.

Header not hiding when using the "Save as..." function

Add code autoformatting, autolinting, test etc... ciocheck

Since this is a starting project (and probably all other plugins are good examples), I advice we use yapf for autoformatting code. The code is in ciocheck already so it is just adding it.

Thoughts?

Add an "Open..." action

@dalthviz, this is very similar to the Save as action you already implemented :-)

With this the user will be able to select an ipynb file from the operating system and that file will be opened in the Notebook plugin

Add Jupyter Trove classifier

A new trove classifier has been added for ipython related packages, I'm not sure but maybe It could be added to the classifiers of this package

Framework :: Jupyter

pypi/legacy#210 (comment)

Disable actions that open an external browser

There are lots of actions in the toolbar that want to open an external browser. We need to disable them for 0.1.

Add RELEASE.md file

Release 0.1

Ask users if they want to save untitled notebooks before closing them

This is an important issue I didn't realize before. Just like for the Editor, we need to ask users if they want to save untitled notebooks before closing them, unless (obviously) they are empty.

@dalthviz, please take care of this one.

Feature request: outline

How difficult would it be to have the selected notebook’s outline appear in the outline pane?

This would be like the table of contents, just the markdown headings within the notebook (which can be found by JS query, I suppose), which also have html tag-links.

There are versions of this functionality around (http://jupyter-contrib-nbextensions.readthedocs.io/en/latest/nbextensions/toc2/README.html ; calico-document-tools ) that might make this easier to do.

How to open notebooks after a failed (because slow) server start?

@stonebig commented on Sat Jul 29 2017

at first slow start, I get a syder-notebook time-out.

Then, even if i ask Display->Notebook, I get a grey window and don't know how to relaunch the spyder-notebook process . Is there a way ? if not, could there be ?

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@ccordoba12 commented on Sat Jul 29 2017

@stonebig, please open issues about each plugin in its corresponding repo instead of here.

Make Ctrl+P to show the file switcher here

I still have to think if/how we could do this. The problem is Ctrl+P is a global shortcut, not a plugin one.

Create a pypi package

Add a file switcher instance to this plugin

It'd be really nice to have it to switch among notebooks.

@goanpeca, question: Ctrl+P (the shortcut to call the switcher) is a global one right now, but I think we should use the same one here. So what do you think we should do to make that work?

Possibilities:

1. Make Ctrl+P a plugin shortcut. Cons: Not nice because you'd have to give focus to the Editor or the notebook to make it work.
2. Make Ctrl+P to detect the current plugin and change its behavior accordingly.
3. Add an API for the file switcher so external plugins can register with it.

Spelling Error in readme.md

There is a spelling error the the readme.md file.

I think it's line #2.

Installation is failing if jupyter notebook isn't already installed

I experimented this error when runing pip install .

This is caused because __init__ file is executed when importing __version__ in setup.py

Processing /home/rlaverde/code/spyder-notebook
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-_jv2fvz2-build/setup.py", line 17, in <module>
        from spyder_notebook import __version__
      File "/tmp/pip-_jv2fvz2-build/spyder_notebook/__init__.py", line 11, in <module>
        from spyder_notebook.notebookplugin import NotebookPlugin as PLUGIN_CLASS
      File "/tmp/pip-_jv2fvz2-build/spyder_notebook/notebookplugin.py", line 31, in <module>
        from .utils.nbopen import nbopen, NBServerError
      File "/tmp/pip-_jv2fvz2-build/spyder_notebook/utils/nbopen.py", line 16, in <module>
        from notebook import notebookapp
    ImportError: No module named 'notebook'

Conda nor pip has spyder-notebook in their directory

$ conda install spyder-notebook -c spyder-ide
Fetching package metadata ...........

PackageNotFoundError: Package missing in current osx-64 channels:
  - spyder-notebook

Close matches found; did you mean one of these?

    spyder-notebook: ipython-notebook

$ pip install spyder-notebook
Collecting spyder-notebook
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement spyder-notebook (from versions: )

When I search the pip directory using spyder as the search term spyder-notebook does not appear.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=spyder&submit=search

how-to installation / testing

Hi, is there any doc/readme I can have a look at, to learn how to install and use this plugin? thanks!

Restore the previous list of opened notebooks (per session)

This is for 0.2, so there's no rush.

Create untitled notebooks under Spyder's TEMPDIR/notebooks

This is meant to:

1. Not pollute the temp dir of users.
2. To remove untitled notebooks once Spyder is closed.

TEMPDIR is defined in spyder/utils/programs.py

@dalthviz, we need this for 0.1, sorry I forgot about it.

Show icons of Options menu actions above tabs

@dalthviz, I'd like to see if we can have something like JupyterLab

At least our actions New, Open, Save as, and Open console should be above every tab.

I think it would be more intuitive for our users to see those actions easily accessible to not try to use the main ones. Also, I don't think people would be inclined to look for them in our Options menu.

Restarting kernel changes working directory to notebook directory, opening notebooks does not

I think it would be more consistent to change the working directory upon opening, because that's what jupyter users expect: when opening a notebook, the kernel's cwd is always the notebook's directory.

Add plugin actions (Open, Save, etc) to the `NotebookWidget` context menu

The idea is that by doing a right-click on any notebook, users can get access to those actions instead of going to the Options plugin menu.

Shutdown kernel when closing a notebook

This requires:

1. Sending a request to the server to get api/sessions.
2. Identify the kernel associated with a given notebook.
3. Send a request to api/kernels to shutdown the kernel.

Add caching to circle ci builds

Cache miniconda and the package cache to reduce build time.

Use this repo as a POC

Add ellipsis to shortened notebook names

I called this notebook "Hola mundo como vas el dia de hoy.ipynb" and this is how it's shown right now

I propose

1. it should be shown as

    Hola mundo como ...
   

2. We should remove .ipynb from the notebook name. So instead of foo.ipynb we should show only foo. All notebooks have the ipynb extension, so there's no need to show it.

3. We should increase the max number of characters to show to 20 (instead of 15, the current limit).

Make the notebook server to start Spyder kernels

This is the only way to connect a notebook to the Variable Explorer.

Notebook servers are not terminated after closing Spyder

When we added creationflags to the subprocess call that creates servers in PR #63, we didn't notice that servers after that change are not closed when Spyder is closed.

We need to use psutil to fix this, which I will do in a next PR.

Add a workaround for notebook 4.3+

The notebook package 4.3+ comes with a password by default (even in local installations). We need to add a workaround for that.

Add a "+" button to the tab bar to let people know how to open new notebooks

This button is similar to the one found in Firefox, e.g.

Shorten file names to not pass 15 characters

Notebook file titles can be really long. We have to prevent showing the full file name and shorten it somehow.

[QUESTION] - How to contribute to this project?

Hi,

I am also planning to make this plugin for a long time. It is nice if there are some persons with the same needs. I want to contribute to this repo, what should I do?

Thanks

Add more tests

I want these tests:

1. Open a notebook:
   • Add a notebook with some content to tests.
   • Move it to a non-ascii directory.
   • Open it
   • Verify that it was open correctly.
2. Save as
   • Add some content to an untitled notebook programatically.
   • Save the notebook with a new name
   • Verify that the content was not lost in the process
3. Kill kernel
   • Create an empty notebook
   • Get its kernel id
   • Close that notebook
   • Request the server its list of kernels.
   • Verify that the kernel was killed by the server.

Connect the Notebook to the Variable Explorer

The idea is to add to NotebookClient a hidden IPython ShellWidget and connect that shell to the VariableExplorer.

For this we need to detect:

1. When a kernel is ready to receive commands.
2. When a cell has finished execution.

@goanpeca, we need your help for this one :-)