PyNote (🐍🧾)

Turn Python file with Markdown formating in Docstrings into Markdown file.

This script will change one-to-one your python file into markdown file. Your module level single and multi lines docstrings(""") would be treat as markdown code, the rest would be treat as python code.

Background

I'm not a fan of Jupyter Notebooks. In training courses, I wanted to teach students by showing them examples in the IDE instead of presentations. Therefore, as part of the materials, I always showed python code with comments written in docstrings.

Such materials have their great advantage, which is the ease of running them on the student's environment and editing them without additional tools.

The downside is the limitation of the form. Jupyter Notebook allows you to generate pdf/html files and in this case we are limited to python files.

The script was created to get rid of this limitation, supporting the creation of markdown and html files based on the python file. It will also help me create blog posts using executable python files.

Getting Started

• Run script via python pynote.py (you can use example/flask.py for test)
• Open output directory to view the result.

Example

So let's say that our python file looks likes this:

"""
### Matching sequences

Your main loop will need to get input from the user and split it into words,
let’s say a list of strings like this:
"""
command = input("What are you doing next? ")
# analyze the result of command.split()

It will be converted to markdown code visible below:

---

Matching sequences

Your main loop will need to get input from the user and split it into words, let’s say a list of strings like this:

command = input("What are you doing next? ")
# analyze the result of command.split()

---

More examples can be found in example/ directory.

Features

HTML

You can also create HTML file with --html flag.

PyNote is using Marked.js as markdown code to html converter, and Highlight.js for syntax highlighting.

Questions

Feel free to create an issue on Github.