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Module: nbconvert.filters.strings

String filters.

Contains a collection of useful string manipulation filters for use in Jinja templates.

10 Functions

IPython.nbconvert.filters.strings.wrap_text(text, width=100)

Intelligently wrap text. Wrap text without breaking words if possible.

Parameters:

text : str

Text to wrap.

width : int, optional

Number of characters to wrap to, default 100.

IPython.nbconvert.filters.strings.html2text(element)

extract inner text from html

Analog of jQuery’s $(element).text()

IPython.nbconvert.filters.strings.add_anchor(html)

Add an anchor-link to an html header tag

For use in heading cells

IPython.nbconvert.filters.strings.strip_dollars(text)

Remove all dollar symbols from text

Parameters:

text : str

Text to remove dollars from

IPython.nbconvert.filters.strings.strip_files_prefix(text)

Fix all fake URLs that start with files/, stripping out the files/ prefix.

Parameters:

text : str

Text in which to replace ‘src=”files/real...’ with ‘src=”real...’

IPython.nbconvert.filters.strings.comment_lines(text, prefix='# ')

Build a Python comment line from input text.

Parameters:

text : str

Text to comment out.

prefix : str

Character to append to the start of each line.

IPython.nbconvert.filters.strings.get_lines(text, start=None, end=None)

Split the input text into separate lines and then return the lines that the caller is interested in.

Parameters:

text : str

Text to parse lines from.

start : int, optional

First line to grab from.

end : int, optional

Last line to grab from.

IPython.nbconvert.filters.strings.ipython2python(code)

Transform IPython syntax to pure Python syntax

Parameters:

code : str

IPython code, to be transformed to pure Python

IPython.nbconvert.filters.strings.posix_path(path)

Turn a path into posix-style path/to/etc

Mainly for use in latex on Windows, where native Windows paths are not allowed.

IPython.nbconvert.filters.strings.path2url(path)

Turn a file path into a URL