René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"[Doc]: Support of notebook format for docs creation","articleBody":"### Problem\r\n\r\nAs soon as one example has more than one sub-example, e.g. here\r\nhttps://matplotlib.org/stable/gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/font_family_rc.html#sphx-glr-gallery-text-labels-and-annotations-font-family-rc-py\r\n\r\nit is inconvenient to iterate on that example with python files  (`*.py`), because it's not straight forward to run a python file cell in sections.\r\n\r\n### Suggested improvement\r\n\r\nA good format to support section wise code execution would be `.ipynb`. \r\nWhat do you think about supporting `.ipynb` for creating docs examples? \r\nI think that would make iterating over examples easier, and it would encourage contributors to create examples of shorter code blocks with multiple sub-examples. This could also be very useful in the tutorial section.\r\n\r\nIn my opinion, a bunch of small examples each showing only one feature is much better than one big example.\r\nMatplotlib has currently many examples that have long and convoluted code (e.g. [1](https://matplotlib.org/stable/gallery/axes_grid1/demo_axes_grid.html),[2](https://matplotlib.org/stable/gallery/shapes_and_collections/artist_reference.html#sphx-glr-gallery-shapes-and-collections-artist-reference-py),[3](https://matplotlib.org/stable/gallery/images_contours_and_fields/contour_image.html#sphx-glr-gallery-images-contours-and-fields-contour-image-py),[4](https://matplotlib.org/stable/gallery/statistics/violinplot.html#sphx-glr-gallery-statistics-violinplot-py)), and I think that might be the case because it's difficult to split examples into smaller chunks with the current infrastructure. \r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/kolibril13","@type":"Person","name":"kolibril13"},"datePublished":"2023-01-18T08:34:27.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":22},"url":"https://github.com/25016/matplotlib/issues/25016"}