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Examples like this one do not currently work on mybinder because they expect to import a module from a file in their current directory. Given that this module (e.g. params.py ) has been translated to an .ipynb file as well, it cannot be imported.

I guess the easiest fix would be to add a special comment like # NO_NOTEBOOK to the top of such files and copy them over verbatim as .py files?

I get this when I click on the binder link:

The updated mybinder.org service seems to be much more stable/available than the first version but it seems that none of our notebooks work anymore. When mybinder executes python generate_notebooks.py it fails with:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "generate_notebooks.py", line 52, in <module>
    nbf.write(content, f)
  File "/home/main/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nbformat/__init__.py",
line 169, in write
    fp.write(s)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2019' in position 1
60: ordinal not in range(128)

The character it complains about is the "right single quotation mark", i.e. ’, but I did not immediately see where this character might appear. @bdevans / @thesamovar : any ideas?