An Plantuml extension for generating UML figures from within ipython notebook.

plantuml_magics.py

"""
An Plantuml extension for generating UML figures from within ipython notebook.

Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20303335/ipython-notebook-plantuml-extension

See example notebook at: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/sberke/bb90ff09193a8888d7f7
"""
import os
from IPython.core.magic import magics_class, cell_magic, Magics
from IPython.display import Image, SVG

@magics_class
class Plantuml(Magics):

  @cell_magic
  def plantuml(self, line, cell):
      """Generate and display a figure using Plantuml.
      Usage:
          %plantuml -tsvg filname
      """
      self.filename = line
      self.code = cell

      with open(self.filename + ".plt", "w") as file:
          file.write(self.code)

      os.system("plantuml -tsvg %s.plt" % self.filename)
      return SVG(filename=self.filename+".svg")

def load_ipython_extension(ipython):
    ipython.register_magics(Plantuml)

after the extension is installed:

%load_ext plantuml_extension

see http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/sberke/bb90ff09193a8888d7f7 for rough example