vscode-jupyter: Jupyter notebook Export as Python Script FAILED

Bug: VS code, Jupyter Notebooks, Export as Python

Steps to cause the bug to occur

Actual behavior

The export as Python file doesn’t work from the Export as button (error: Jupyter command jupyter-nbconvert not found). However, if I run the nbconvert from command line (Python: Create Terminal) it does work.

Expected behavior

Jupyter Notebook exported as a py file. How to configure such that it works from the export as button?

Your Jupyter and/or Python environment

Please provide as much info as you readily know

Jupyter server running: Local
Extension version: 2020.9.114305
VS Code version: 1.50.1
Python and/or Anaconda version: 3.8.5
OS: Windows
Virtual environment: Dev Container: Python3

Python Output

/usr/local/bin/python ~/.vscode-server/extensions/ms-python.python-2020.9.114305/pythonFiles/pyvsc-run-isolated.py jupyter nbconvert --version Error 2020-10-29 10:43:38: Export failed [r [Error]: Traceback (most recent call last): […] File “/root/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/jupyter_core/command.py”, line 133, in _jupyter_abspath raise Exception( Exception: Jupyter command jupyter-nbconvert not found.

Microsoft Data Science for VS Code Engineering Team: @rchiodo, @IanMatthewHuff, @DavidKutu, @DonJayamanne, @greazer, @joyceerhl

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 4 years ago
Comments: 19 (9 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Looks like a bug in nbconvert, now i recall we had a number of issues with nbconvert in the past. Please update to the latest version of nbconvert (6.0.7) & it will work. I just ran pip install nbconvert -U and that worked. YOu might want to remove teh version number from the requirements.txt file for nbconvert (interestingly that’s the only package that’s pinned to a specific version).

Thanks again for providing the information. Closing as updating the package fixes it.

DonJayamanne on Jan 6, 2021

Thanks for reporting this issue. Please could you try the following:

Install the latest update of the Python extension
Take a screenshot of the bottom left VS Code statusbar (I’d like to see the python interpreter selected)
Open a terminal using Python: Create Terminal, & wait for the environment to be
Next print sys.executable in the terminal in the python prompt.

>> python
>> import sys
>> sys.executable

DonJayamanne on Oct 29, 2020