A simple function that fetches a remote (or local) python file and runs it inside an IPython Notebook

run_remote_code.py

def run_remote_code(url):
    """Fetch and run remote Python code.
    
    This is a custom function that fetches
    and runs remote Python code inside of an
    IPython Notebook.
    
    Careful, this could be super bad stuff!
    """
    from IPython.core.magics.code import CodeMagics
    cm = CodeMagics(get_ipython())
    code = cm.shell.find_user_code(url)
    return cm.shell.run_code(code)

get_remote_code("http://example.com/python_code.py")