Jupyter notebook Export as Python Script FAILED

Bug: VS code, Jupyter Notebooks, Export as Python

Steps to cause the bug to occur

Actual behavior

The export as Python file doesn’t work from the Export as button (error: Jupyter command jupyter-nbconvert not found). However, if I run the nbconvert from command line (Python: Create Terminal) it does work.

Expected behavior

Jupyter Notebook exported as a py file. How to configure such that it works from the export as button?

Your Jupyter and/or Python environment

Please provide as much info as you readily know

• Jupyter server running: Local
• Extension version: 2020.9.114305
• VS Code version: 1.50.1
• Python and/or Anaconda version: 3.8.5
• OS: Windows
• Virtual environment: Dev Container: Python3

Python Output

/usr/local/bin/python ~/.vscode-server/extensions/ms-python.python-2020.9.114305/pythonFiles/pyvsc-run-isolated.py jupyter nbconvert --version Error 2020-10-29 10:43:38: Export failed [r [Error]: Traceback (most recent call last): […] File “/root/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/jupyter_core/command.py”, line 133, in _jupyter_abspath raise Exception( Exception: Jupyter command jupyter-nbconvert not found.

Microsoft Data Science for VS Code Engineering Team: @rchiodo, @IanMatthewHuff, @DavidKutu, @DonJayamanne, @greazer, @joyceerhl

[DonJayamanne]

Looks like a bug in nbconvert, now i recall we had a number of issues with nbconvert in the past. Please update to the latest version of nbconvert (6.0.7) & it will work. I just ran pip install nbconvert -U and that worked. YOu might want to remove teh version number from the requirements.txt file for nbconvert (interestingly that’s the only package that’s pinned to a specific version).

Thanks again for providing the information. Closing as updating the package fixes it.

[DonJayamanne]

Thanks for reporting this issue. Please could you try the following:

• Install the latest update of the Python extension
• Take a screenshot of the bottom left VS Code statusbar (I’d like to see the python interpreter selected)
• Open a terminal using Python: Create Terminal, & wait for the environment to be
• Next print sys.executable in the terminal in the python prompt.

>> python
>> import sys
>> sys.executable