a python script that watches the current directory for changes to ipython notebooks, compiles them to html, and uploads them via scp to a server. an experiment in real-time coding for teaching python to new programmers

watch_notebooks.py

import time
from watchdog.observers import Observer
from watchdog.events import FileSystemEventHandler
import envoy
import os
import datetime

class NotebookConverterHandler(FileSystemEventHandler):
    def on_modified(self, event):
        if event.src_path.endswith('.ipynb'):
            # convert to html file
            envoy.run('python nbconvert/nbconvert.py --format=html {}'.format(event.src_path))
            # convert old file name with ipynb extension to html extension
            new_file_name = os.path.splitext(os.path.split(event.src_path)[1])[0] + '.html'
            # upload to my site
            envoy.run('scp {} name@myawesomeserver'.format(new_file_name))
            print 'uploaded {}'.format(datetime.datetime.now())

if __name__ == "__main__":
    observer = Observer()
    observer.schedule(NotebookConverterHandler(), path='.')
    observer.start()
    try:
        while True:
            time.sleep(1)
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        observer.stop()
    observer.join()

This is so cool! 🤩

And so ahead of its time!!!