ignore markdown cells in `jupyter nbconvert` with `--to script`

Question

Is it possible to have jupyter nbconvert ... --to script ignore markdown cells rather than convert them to comments?

I\'m asking because I want to use

Answer 1

There is the command line argument PythonExporter.exclude_markdown that does what you want. To get a list of pep8 errors that just look at the code cells, I run

jupyter nbconvert my_notebook.ipynb --stdout --to python --PythonExporter.exclude_markdown=True | flake8 - --ignore=W391