How to hide one specific cell (input or output) in IPython Notebook?

Question

Is there a way to selectively hide one specific input or output cell in IPython notebook?

I could only find the below code to show / hide all input cells.

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Answer 1

This is now built into nbconvert (as of 5.3.0) using tags.

Here's an example removing a specific cell from the output. Using this notebook. The example has three cells: a markdown cell, a code cell that will be hidden, and a code cell that will not be hidden.

1. Add the remove_cell tag to any cells you want to hide using the tag editor built into the notebook or JupyterLab (the specific name "remove_cell" doesn't matter)

2. Convert with nbconvert

   jupyter nbconvert nbconvert-example.ipynb --TagRemovePreprocessor.remove_cell_tags='{"remove_cell"}'

Any cells with the tag remove_cell will be removed from the output.

In addition to entire cells, you can filter just inputs or just outputs:

• TagRemovePreprocessor.remove_input_tags
• TagRemovePreprocessor.remove_single_output_tags
• TagRemovePreprocessor.remove_all_outputs_tags