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

Here's a method that allows you to hide cells from the HTML/PDF output by editing the cell metadata only.

Versions I'm using:

$ jupyter notebook --version

4.1.0

$ jupyter nbconvert --version

4.2.0

1. Download the ipython notebook extension templates by following install instructions on Github: pip install https://github.com/ipython-contrib/IPython-notebook-extensions/tarball/master
   • This just install files into your local jupyter data directory. Full details in the readme
2. run jupyter notebook
3. go to localhost:8888/nbextensions (or whatever port you started on) and activate Printview
4. go back to localhost:8888/tree, create a new notebook and go into it
5. create a code cell with some code in it that produces output e.g. print("You can see me") #but not me
6. go to View > Cell Toolbar > Edit Metadata
7. click the Edit Metadata button now showing to the top right of the cell
8. add 'hide_input':True to the json e.g. mine looked like { "collapsed": false, "hide_input": true, "trusted": true } after
9. save notebook
10. go back to the terminal and execute jupyter nbconvert --to pdf --template printviewlatex.tplx notebookname.ipynb (if your notebook is called notebookname.ipynb.ipynb)

You should now have a document called notebookname.pdf in the directory. Hopefully it should have just the text You can see me in it...fingers crossed.