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# Module: `nbformat.reader`

API for reading notebooks.

Authors:

- Jonathan Frederic

## 1 Class

class `IPython.nbformat.reader.` `NotJSONError`

  Bases: `exceptions.ValueError`

## 4 Functions

`IPython.nbformat.reader.` `parse_json`(s, **kwargs)

  Parse a JSON string into a dict.

`IPython.nbformat.reader.` `get_version`(nb)

  Get the version of a notebook.

  Parameters: | nb : dict NotebookNode or dict containing notebook data.
  Returns: | Tuple containing major (int) and minor (int) version numbers :

`IPython.nbformat.reader.` `reads`(s, **kwargs)

  Read a notebook from a json string and return the NotebookNode object.

  This function properly reads notebooks of any version. No version conversion is performed.

  Parameters: | s : unicode The raw unicode string to read the notebook from.
  Returns: | nb : NotebookNode The notebook that was read.

`IPython.nbformat.reader.` `read`(fp, **kwargs)

  Read a notebook from a file and return the NotebookNode object.

  This function properly reads notebooks of any version. No version conversion is performed.

  Parameters: | fp : file Any file-like object with a read method.
  Returns: | nb : NotebookNode The notebook that was read.

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