In windows bit64 Could not find \expanded.

[markomanninen]

Is there something I could do to overcome this error when trying to execute some tikz latex code in Jupyter notebook cell magic %%tikz?

("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\oberdiek\etexcmds.sty"
Package: etexcmds 2016/05/16 v1.6 Avoid name clashes with e-TeX commands (HO)
Package etexcmds Info: Could not find \expanded.
(etexcmds)             That can mean that you are not using pdfTeX 1.50 or
(etexcmds)             that some package has redefined \expanded.
(etexcmds)             In the latter case, load this package earlier.
)))

Script I'm executing is:

%%tikz
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes,backgrounds}
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{empty}
\def\firstcircle{(0,0) circle (1.5cm)}
\def\secondcircle{(60:2cm) circle (1.5cm)}
\def\thirdcircle{(0:2cm) circle (1.5cm)}
\begin{tikzpicture}
    \begin{scope}[shift={(3cm,-5cm)}, fill opacity=0.5]
        \fill[red] \firstcircle;
        \fill[green] \secondcircle;
        \fill[blue] \thirdcircle;
        \draw \firstcircle node[below] {$A$};
        \draw \secondcircle node [above] {$B$};
        \draw \thirdcircle node [below] {$C$};
    \end{scope}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

Also other examples say "No image generated.". I have installed basic-miktex-2.9.6219-x64 and it didn't show any special errors on installation process.

[mkrphys]

Sorry for the somewhat late reply. Your example is faulty. The TikZ magic doesn't work like that. What you want is rather something like

%%tikz -l shapes,backgrounds
    \begin{scope}[shift={(3cm,-5cm)}, fill opacity=0.5]
        \fill[red] \firstcircle;
        \fill[green] \secondcircle;
        \fill[blue] \thirdcircle;
        \draw \firstcircle node[below] {$A$};
        \draw \secondcircle node [above] {$B$};
        \draw \thirdcircle node [below] {$C$};
    \end{scope}

In addition you would like to have a LaTeX preamble containing

\def\firstcircle{(0,0) circle (1.5cm)}
\def\secondcircle{(60:2cm) circle (1.5cm)}
\def\thirdcircle{(0:2cm) circle (1.5cm)}

This is currently not supported, but not hard to add to the magic.

[mkrphys]

I added an option for specifying a preamble. The correct example should look something like the following. First, in an Python code cell, define

preamble = """
\def\firstcircle{(0,0) circle (1.5cm)}
\def\secondcircle{(60:2cm) circle (1.5cm)}
\def\thirdcircle{(0:2cm) circle (1.5cm)}
"""

This should be followed by a TikZ cell,

%%tikz -l shapes,backgrounds -x $preamble
    \begin{scope}[shift={(3cm,-5cm)}, fill opacity=0.5]
        \fill[red] \firstcircle;
        \fill[green] \secondcircle;
        \fill[blue] \thirdcircle;
        \draw \firstcircle node[below] {$A$};
        \draw \secondcircle node [above] {$B$};
        \draw \thirdcircle node [below] {$C$};
    \end{scope}