Add custom suffix to files?

[jonahpearl]

Hi there, I'm wondering if there's a way to append a custom suffix to files. It would be great to be able to do, eg, jupytext --to py ./**/*.ipynb --suffix my_converted_script. I wrote a bash script to do this file by file but seems like a quick add in Python that would save others having to write a script. Am I missing an obvious way to do this with the current options? Thanks.

[mwouts]

Hi @jonahpearl , indeed it is possible to pair files with a suffix. This appears briefly in the documentation at https://jupytext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/config.html, but I do agree that we could improve that part of the documentation.

An example is this one:

jupytext --to .nb.py:percent notebook.ipynb

to convert notebook.ipynb to notebook.nb.py in the py:percent format.

You can also use this syntax in the formats option, see for instance this test.

[jonahpearl]

Ah great, thank you. I was thinking that the [suffix]:percent had to be a specific string to invoke the percent format. But you’re saying I could do, for instance, jupytext --to my_new_file.py:percent ./*/**/*.ipynb and it will know that there’s an implied wildcard in front of “my_new_file”?

On Jul 13, 2022, at 3:58 PM, Marc Wouts @.***> wrote:

Hi @jonahpearl https://github.com/jonahpearl , indeed it is possible to pair files with a suffix. This appears briefly in the documentation at https://jupytext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/config.html https://jupytext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/config.html, but I do agree that we could improve that part of the documentation.

An example is this one:

jupytext --to .nb.py:percent notebook.ipynb to convert notebook.ipynb to notebook.nb.py in the py:percent format.

You can also use this syntax in the formats option, see for instance this test https://github.com/mwouts/jupytext/blob/8a4ea5f18993c73e5d33c665be3637e85d639df7/tests/test_cli.py#L783-L807.

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[mwouts]

I think so! Maybe I'll let you try and confirm?

[jonahpearl]

Yup, appears to work. Thanks!

[jonahpearl]

(Also ps: I used this to write a small script to convert ipynb's from 2-space tabs to 4-space tabs. Not the intended use-case but very handy! If I get a chance I will update the gist with this streamlined verison! https://gist.github.com/jonahpearl/5bd84ee032911ee0b0c32f773a9b511e)

[mwouts]

Awesome, thank you @jonahpearl