Nsryjdtyk

i would like to be able to run a jupyter notebook as a regular python file (using a standard python interpreter) as
well. the problem i'm facing is that in python i can not render markdown objects in a usable from:

running the code below renders as it should in the notebook but prints <IPython.core.display.Markdown object> in the
when run using just python.

from IPython.display import Markdown, display

display(Markdown('# Hello World!'))

i was trying to come up with a way to make that work and found this ugly work-around:

from IPython.display import Markdown, display

from IPython import get_ipython

from IPython.core.displaypub import DisplayPublisher

from ipykernel.zmqshell import ZMQDisplayPublisher



display_pub_class = get_ipython().display_pub_class()



def displaymd(strg):

    if isinstance(display_pub_class, ZMQDisplayPublisher):

        display(Markdown(strg))

    elif isinstance(display_pub_class, DisplayPublisher):

        print(strg)

    else:

        # ??

        display(strg)



displaymd('# Hello World!')

that seems very hacky! is there a simpler way to get a reasonable display of markdown objects? or at least a simpler way to know whether display is capable of rendering markdown?

the same question goes for latex, html and similar objects.

just found out a silghtly simpler way to check if i am on ipython:

def on_ipython():

    if 'get_ipython' in globals():

        return True

    else:

        return False



def displaymd(strg):

    if on_ipython():

        display(Markdown(strg))

    else:

        print(strg)

still this is not very nice...