IPython question mark does not display output

[moorepants]

I have lines like:

.. jupyter-execute::
   ?

.. jupyter-execute::
   function?

The output that displays in IPython or Jupyter notebook does not seem to display with jupyter-sphinx. For example:

Is there a way to have the output from the IPython ? and ?? display?

[akhmerov]

You are observing jupyter/nbclient#196. I don't think we can offer a workaround on the jupyter-sphinx side. Pinning nbclient or IPython versions would probably be unnecessarily disruptive (and I'm not even sure if this worked before), and therefore I propose to close this issue. Let me know if you disagree.

[moorepants]

Thanks. Yes, fine to close this in favor of the nbclient one. I believe that nbconvert does handle this correctly and puts the output of ? into an output cell (maybe not relevant though).

[akhmerov]

nbconvert directly uses nbclient for execution, and therefore has the exact same problem (I also checked that).

[moorepants]

Interesting. Here is an example of it working with nbviewer:

https://nbviewer.org/github/moorepants/mae223/blob/master/content/lecture-notebooks/mae223-l02.ipynb

But I'm not sure what the difference is.

[akhmerov]

Can't confirm using jupyter nbconvert --execute bug.ipynb --to notebook --stdout (bug.ipynb contains a single code cell with ?).

Your notebook already contains outputs; was it not executed manually, e.g. using run all cells or so?

[moorepants]

Yes, manually executed then uploaded to github and displayed via nbviewer. So I guess manual execution of the notebook catches the output properly. Thanks.