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12th December 2018 - Link Blog

The _repr_html_ method in Jupyter notebooks (via) Today I learned that if you add a _repr_html_ method returning a string of HTML to any Python class Jupyter notebooks will render that HTML inline to represent that object.

Posted 12th December 2018 at 6:09 pm

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