> It does, nbconvert Yes, my script simply calls the nbconvert library, with some trickery to ensure that the result is idempotent. But I would like not to ne

> It does, nbconvert Yes, my script simply calls the nbconvert library, with some trickery to ensure that the result is idempotent. But I would like not to need this script, that instead the jupyter interface worked with valid python files directly (maybe after enabling some option). > poses a brutal obstruction to Unix workflows. It's not as much the notebook itself, but the file format chosen by default by the notebook. If it was a human-editable textfile there would be no problem, and there is no practical obstruction for that (other that young programmers today cannot conceive a different "serialization" format than json).