Tag to skip cell execution

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

There are some cells I’d like run during development, but not during the book build step. The example I’m working with now are magic calls.

Describe the solution you’d like I would like a tag that I can add to a cell, not to only hide the cell input/output (as here–it appears that even remove-cell still executes the contents), but a tag that ensure the entire code cell isn’t run during build.

Describe alternatives you’ve considered I’ve tried commenting the cells out when I’m doing making interactive changes, and uncommenting them if I have to do some interactive work.

Additional context n/a

[chrisjsewell]

FYI on this, https://github.com/jupyter/nbclient/pull/151 is now merged, so once a new version of nblient is out, you will be able to use the skip-execution tag 😄

[chrisjsewell]

This is now available from nbcient>=0.5.5 (https://github.com/jupyter/nbclient/compare/0.5.4...0.5.5) I believe this is installable with latest jupyter-book (it should be only jupyter-cache pinning nbclient: https://github.com/executablebooks/jupyter-cache/blob/7917c680f97af055ac60fca345822d092f1d3d6e/setup.cfg#L32) So closing this issue then should just be a matter of adding some documentation on it (around here: https://jupyterbook.org/content/execute.html#dealing-with-code-that-raises-errors, and also mirrored here: https://myst-nb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/use/execute.html#raise-errors-in-code-cells)