I decided to try out Quarto, the new notebook/markdown/publishing system built on Pandoc.
I followed their Get started guide and downloaded and installed the macOS installer.
Having run the installer, quarto --help showed that I had the CLI command installed.
Next I installed the Quarto extension for VS Code by clicking the "Install" button on this page: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=quarto.quarto
I started following the tutorial there, which worked... up until the point where I clicked "Render", when I got this error in the VS Code terminal:
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'nbformat'
This looked suspiciously to me like an xkcd 1987 problem: which of the many versions of Python on my computer was Quarto using? And why didn't that version have the right packages installed?
I figured out which Python was being used by adding this block to the tutorial Markdown file and executing it in VS Code:
```{python}
import sys
print(sys.executable)
```
This output:
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/python3
Now that I knew which Python was being used, I could install the nbformat and later the nbclient packages that the error messages were complaining about:
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/python3 -m pip install nbformat nbclient
Having installed those two packages into that particular Python instance, the "Render" button in VS Code worked and gave me a rendered PDF preview.
I filed a bug report about this here: https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/1972
Created 2022-08-18T13:03:58-07:00, updated 2022-08-18T13:10:56-07:00 · History · Edit