A fully-functional terminal emulator in an IPython/Jupyter notebook. This is useful for notebook environments that don't provide shell access. Uses xterm.js for a VT100-compliant Javascript terminal front-end component. Instead of an actual WebSocket, notebook_xterm uses the Javascript Jupyter cell execute function Jupyter.notebook.kernel.execute() as a channel to communicate between the Python runtime on the server (TerminalServer) and JavaScript runtime in the browser (TerminalClient).
Link to an Example notebook.
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From within an IPython notebook, install the package using pip:
!pip install notebook_xterm
Load the IPython extension. You'll need to reload the extension each time the notebook kernel starts. Alternatively, you can add notebook_xterm to the configuration file to load it automatically.
%load_ext notebook_xterm
To display a terminal, type the magic function %xterm in a blank cell:
%xterm
- IBM Data Science Experience
- Jupyter 4.3.0
- Python 2 and 3
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details
Pull requests welcome!