Automate standard jupyter/ipython notebook imports

Question

For at least 99% of my jupyter/ipython notebooks i use the following imports:

import pandas as pd
from pandas.io.json import json_normalize
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib as mpl
import numpy as np

from bson import json_util, ObjectId
import json

from datetime import datetime, timedelta
import pytz

pd.set_option('max_columns', 50)

mpl.style.use('ggplot')

%pylab inline

Has anyone discovered any sort of solution that would allow me to do this automatically or create some sort of macro?

Answer 1

I like to use the %load magic. Make a file with all the imports in, leave it in the home directory and start the notebook with

%load my_imports.py

This method lets you edit the imports before running them.