PresentPy

Create slides from Jupyter Notebooks

PresentPy allows you to take your Jupyter Notebooks and turn them into PowerPoint slides that then can be integrated into your presentation decks.

Installation

I strongly recommend using pipx to install PresentPy:

pipx install presentpy

Otherwise, you can install it using pip or your favorite package manager – the package is called presentpy.

Usage

To turn a notebook into slides, simply run:

presentpy [OPTIONS] nb NOTEBOOK_PATH

It also works with Python scripts:

presentpy [OPTIONS] py SCRIPT_PATH

Code configuration

You can configure the code cells to be displayed in the slides by adding a comment on the last line of the cell. The comment should start with #% and then you can add the following options:

• title: The title of the slide
• highlights: A comma separated list of lines to highlight, each highlight could be a number or a range of lines separated by a dash, e.g. 1,3-6,6-7

For example, take the following code:

def compute_hcf(x, y):
    if x > y:
        smaller = y
    else:
        smaller = x
    for i in range(1, smaller+1):
        if((x % i == 0) and (y % i == 0)):
            hcf = i 
    return hcf
#% title="Find the H.C.F of two numbers" highlights=1,2-3,4-5,9

The code above will generate 5 slides showing the same code but highlighting different lines in each slide – see how it looks below:

<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSOMEZNqOr9F3sNAxuqGvZAPMWlaRDqmc94NIOPDEzHTM8jzZ7vEAmeMZoR-o5-ZA/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000" frameborder="0" width="1280" height="449" allowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true"></iframe>

You can then use these slides in your presentation deck.