Re: [Lmod-users] Lmod extension for Jupyter

[Félix-Antoine F. <fel...@ca...>]

Hi Kenneth,

We now tell our users to load modules before they start their Jupyter
> notebooks, this makes it significantly easier for them since they can load
> stuff on the fly (if I understand things correctly).
>

You're correct. With the lmod extension for Jupyter, the user can start the
jupyter notebook application without worrying about which modules he needs
beforehand. He still needs to load the modules before starting his kernel.


> The Python code that communicates looks pretty basic but decent. It
> doesn't seem to deal with errors a lot, but maybe that's overkill for this
> purpose.
>

Indeed, since all the inputs for the functions come from the web handler, I
have not put much effort into error handling for now.

Félix