For some reason a jupyter notebook I created in python with code and markdown opened as a text file. I have created dozens of notebooks with code and markdown and this hasn’t happened. Is it possible to open it as I created it or did I do something that won’t allow that? If so, how do I do this? …

I can open it on my surface. Should I open it in Anaconda/Jupyter lab or elsewhere? Bizarre this has happened only to one of my notebooks, right? All of my notebooks have been opened started and saved as notebookX.ipynb. This one had previously opened properly. Whoa - i just right clicked it fr…

If it saved completely without an issue, you should be able to open it still, eventually. Open Jupyter up like you would make a new file and then select to open that one from inside Jupyter. Does that work? If not, check the extension is .ipynb. Is it just this notebook? Do others that you have op…

I closed jupyter and reopened Jupyter notebook from Anaconda. Still did the same but, It says its a pynb not ipynb file. All of my other files save and open properly. This file was opened and looked and appeared to be proper earlier today, then I reopened it and it was coded. How would a file ch…

THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE [image]

[image] CastIronDaddy: It says its a pynb not ipynb file. If you mean that it is for example Notebook.pynb rather than Notebook.ipynb you need to rename it. You can rename files using right click menu from the tree view or by clicking on the name.

[image] CastIronDaddy: says its a pynb not ipynb file Your system doesn’t have anything set up for opening .pynb file types, and so it opens it with a text editor. The small part of the screenshot you shared looks like a normal part of a normal .ipynb file. That’s the good news. It revertin…

Why did my notebook switch from Python to a text file?

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CastIronDaddy June 26, 2024, 7:46pm 5

WHEREAS, this is what all my other notebooks look like. I have no clue howit would have changed file types. I tried to save as ipnyb but it reverts back to pynb

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Why did my notebook switch from Python to a text file?

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