Passing command line arguments to argv in jupyter/ipython notebook

Question

I\'m wondering if it\'s possible to populate sys.argv (or some other structure) with command line arguments in a jupyter/ipython notebook, similar to how it\'s

Answer 1

If the goal is to run a notebook with configurable arguments passed from commandline, I think the easiest way is to use environment variables, like this:

NB_ARGS=some_args jupyter nbconvert --execute --to html --template full some_notebook.ipynb

Then in the notebook, you can import os and use os.environ['NB_ARGS']. The variable value can be some text that contains key-value pairs or json for example.