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name: "Pair Jupyter notebooks with plain-text files so review and agent edits stay readable with Jupytext"
slug: "pair-jupyter-notebooks-with-plain-text-files-so-review-and-agent-edits-stay-readable-with-jupytext"
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:
- [](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/jupytext)
- [](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.
- 
- 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/)