Default template for iPython notebook (using Jupyter)

Question

In the first cell of every iPython (Jupyter) notebook, I almost always type:

%matplotlib inline import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np 

Is there a way to make it so that this cell appears at the top of each new notebook I create by default?

For example, could I save a template .ipynb file somewhere, which is copied by iPython when creating a new notebook?

(I found this question, but it seems to be more about css than default content in cells.)

Answer 1

I know it may not be what you're looking for (this example is not good for working on notebooks that need to be run in multiple environments, e.g. shared), but I put the following in a file called ipython_config.py in my .ipython folder.

c.InteractiveShellApp.exec_lines = ['%matplotlib inline',     'import numpy as np',     'import scipy.constants as scc',     'import scipy.integrate as sci',     'from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D',     'import scipy.optimize as sco' ] 

This runs before anything runs in any interactive console, including the jupyter notebook. If you want explicit boilerplating, I think that you will be disappointed (unless you want to build in the functionality for us ☺)

Answer 2

There is a pretty cool solution using jupyterlab: jupyterlab_templates

Installation took about 5 minutes and you can have as many

templates as you'd like.

Mac Users

Assuming you have conda installed than during the installation, you'll need to install node js engine:

• conda install -c conda-forge nodejs

And create a jupter_noteook_config.py if you don't have one :

• jupyter notebook --generate-config