Reusing code from different IPython notebooks

Question

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

Answer 1

There is also a "write and execute" extension, which will let you write the content of a cell to a file (and replace old content -> update code), which can then be imported in another notebook.

https://github.com/minrk/ipython_extensions#write-and-execute

In one notebook (two cells)

%reload_ext writeandexecute
--
%%writeandexecute -i some_unique_string functions.py
def do_something(txt):
    print(txt)

And then in the other notebook:

from functions import do_something
do_something("hello world")