I am using IPython and want to run functions from one notebook from another (without cutting and pasting them between different notebooks). Is this possible and reasonably e
You can connect with a qtconsole to the same kernel. Just supply this at startup:
ipython qtconsole --existing kernel-0300435c-3d07-4bb6-abda-8952e663ddb7.json
Look at the output after starting the notebook for the long string.