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Basically I want to copy (Ctrl+C) only the code portions from multiple cells without also copying the output or the In[1]: and Out[1]:

What is the easiest way to do so?

Vic
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    Have you tried clicking one of the cells, and then shift + clicking another cell to get the cell range? I was able to successfully copy and paste those lines of code using this method – BenWS Sep 28 '17 at 00:58

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When you are on a cell in Command mode(blue color mode), simply press Shift + DownArrow or Shift + UpArrow to select multiple cells. Press ctrl + C. And that's it. You have copied your entire selected code at once. It doesn't affect whether you have cell outputs.

Command mode: The Jupyter Notebook has two different keyboard input modes. Edit mode allows you to type code or text into a cell and is indicated by a green cell border. Command mode binds the keyboard to notebook level commands and is indicated by a grey cell border with a blue left margin.

Lahiru Karunaratne
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    Much easier to understand and follow - thanks for providing this alternative answer after two years! – Johannes Ranke May 05 '20 at 07:14
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    I tried this. Unfortunately when you do this, and paste them, they all get merged into one cell – KansaiRobot Sep 12 '20 at 02:21
  • Thank goodness for this answer -- I have wasted so much time copying/pasting individual cells. This should really be part of the standard documentation for notebooks. @KansaiRobot this does not merge cells for me (as of jupyter-notebook version 6.3). – eric May 01 '21 at 18:08
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In jupyter you can copy several cells or the content of one cell. If you follow @BenWS comment you can copy several cells, and if you do kernel > restart & clear outputs beforehand you woult not get the [out]. Shortcut is C for copy cell and V shift + V to paste below / above.

However if you intend to copy several cells content, you should merge then before by select them and shift + M and then you can copy paste with ctrl + C.

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    it is difficult to understand what did you mean. Command mode? Or Edit mode? – doubts Jul 15 '18 at 20:09
  • All the shortcuts are in command mode, you can enter command mode with ESC. Except for the last one ctrl + c you have to be inside the cell – MCMZL Jul 16 '18 at 12:00
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What worked for me is the following:

  1. update jupyter notebook within a cell using:

    pip install -U jupyter notebook

  2. go in command mode by clicking to the left of a cell. If you click inside of a cell, it will be green.

  3. Use shift+down/up to select the cells you want to copy and use ctrl+c

  4. Now the most important one: make sure the jupyter file you want to copy the cells into is ALSO in blue/command mode. If this is not the case, you will copy all the cells into a single cell.

Vega
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deheerbeer
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Just do: File > Export Notebook As > Export Notebook to Asciidoc and it will be easy to copy paste. This is what an Asciidoc file looks like:

+*In[ ]:*+
[source, ipython3]
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import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_csv("data/survey_results_public.csv")

df.tail(10)

df.shape

pd.set_option("display.max_columns", 85)
pd.set_option("display.max_rows", 85)

schema_df = pd.read_csv("data/survey_results_schema.csv")

schema_df.head(10)


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Patrick Brunswyck
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Open notebook dir as project in PyCharm, and then open the wanted ipynb file, select and copy all the source code, past into notepad++, replace "\r\n#%%\r\n\r\n" by null with extended search mode.

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For jupyterlab after Shift + UpArrow or Shift + select with mouse on multiple cells. Right click on cells for copy(C) and paste(P).

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In the latest version of JupyterLabs:

File > Export Notebook As > Executable Script

Gives you the code as a text file.

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