Many OPIGlets extensively use Jupyter (in either Notebook or Lab flavour) to prototype and present their work. However, as project progress frequently notebooks are converted into regular python files for a number of reasons, losing the notebook functionality.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could combine some of the benefits of Jupyter notebooks (not least the ability to present both code & results naturally) with regular python files?

Enter Python Handout.

Python Handout was recently (5th August 2019) released by Danijar Hafner and allows Python scripts to be converted into handouts with Markdown comments and inline figures (see above picture).

Installation is via pip (pip3 install -U handout) and Python Handout supports python 3 scripts.

While I’ve not used Handout much (yet), I will definitely be experimenting more in the coming weeks.