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2014-11-16 Form in notebooks (IPython)

Sometimes I need to type some credentials to access a remote machine from my notebook. I could write them in a cell but then I would need to remove them from the notebook to avoid sharing them by negligence. I was using a simple fonction showing a window tkinter, a pop up. But this solution only works if the notebook server is local. When it is remote, the pop up windows appears on the remote machine and I cannot see it.

IPython allows javascript functions to execute some Python instructions which impact the workspace. All I had to do was to print a form in the page with some javascript. The result can be found here : Having a form in a notebook.


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Xavier Dupré