Pair Jupyter Notebooks With Plain Text Files So Review And Agent Edits Stay Readable With Jupytext

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name: "Pair Jupyter notebooks with plain-text files so review and agent edits stay readable with Jupytext"
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description: "Keep notebooks synchronized with `.py` or `.md` representations so version control, review, and refactoring can happen outside bulky notebook JSON."
github_stars: 7156
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source: "https://github.com/mwouts/jupytext"
author: "mwouts"
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category: "Templates & Workflows"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
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  github_repo: "mwouts/jupytext"
  github_stars: 7156
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# Pair Jupyter notebooks with plain-text files so review and agent edits stay readable with Jupytext

Keep notebooks synchronized with `.py` or `.md` representations so version control, review, and refactoring can happen outside bulky notebook JSON.

## Prerequisites

Python, JupyterLab or Jupyter Notebook

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- pip install jupytext
- conda install jupytext -c conda-forge

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- [![Pypi](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/jupytext.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/jupytext)
- [![pyversions](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/jupytext.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/jupytext)
- A Python notebook encoded in the py:percent [format](docs/formats-scripts.md#the-percent-format) has a .py extension and looks like this:

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- or
- Then, restart your JupyterLab server, and make sure Jupytext is activated in Jupyter: .py and .md files have a Notebook icon, and you can open them as Notebooks with a right click in JupyterLab.
- ![Notebook icon on text notebooks](https://github.com/mwouts/jupytext/blob/64b4be818508760116f91bf156342cb4cf724d93/docs/images/jupyterlab_right_click.png?raw=true)

- Source: https://github.com/mwouts/jupytext
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mwouts/jupytext/HEAD/README.md

## Documentation

- https://jupytext.readthedocs.io/

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/pair-jupyter-notebooks-with-plain-text-files-so-review-and-agent-edits-stay-readable-with-jupytext/)