Make IPython Magics work about ipynb HOT 5 OPEN

A simpler solution that I would be 100% happy with would be just to ignore magics. Currently I get:

File "<unknown>", line 15
    %matplotlib inline
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

from ipynb.

I would also like to just ignore magic commands. Usually I only use %matplotlib inline and %timeit.

from ipynb.

In my use case I only want to import function definitions. I would prefer that all other code cells be skipped

I am happy to define my functions in separated cells to make it easier for the parser

I use %matplotlib and %timeit a lot.

from ipynb.

I also get the same error when using "!"
for example: "!pip"

from ipynb.

So this isn't a direct solution but maybe a step forward. Since magics are usually applied at the "cell" level it might be worth considering importing "cells" instead of just functions. If that's the case then you can use something like this

from IPython.lib.kernel import get_connection_file
from jupyter_client import BlockingKernelClient

def import_cell(notebook_path, cell_number):

    ## Read notebook
    notebook_file = open(notebook_path)
    nb = nbformat.read(notebook_file,as_version=4)

    ## Creat kernel client on current
    ## running kernal
    client = BlockingKernelClient()
    client.load_connection_file(get_connection_file())
    client.start_channels()

    ## Execute code cell
    nb_code_cells = [c for c in nb.cells if c["cell_type"] == "code"]
    client.execute(code_cells[cell_number].source)

import_cell("path/to/notebook.ipynb", 0)

To "import" (really it just executes the cell in your current ipython kernel). But if users want to import cells by cell tag they could do something like

from ipynb.fs.cells.my_notebook import my_cell_tag

Where the cell tag could be searched for in the metadata across the notebook

from ipynb.