It can be handy to create script files from notebooks, using nbdev's notebook2script. But since Kaggle doesn't actually save the notebook to the file-system, we have to do some workarounds to make this happen. Here's all the steps needed to export a notebook to a script:
!pip install -U nbdev
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ERROR: pip's dependency resolver does not currently take into account all the packages that are installed. This behaviour is the source of the following dependency conflicts.
fastai 2.6.0 requires fastcore<1.5,>=1.3.27, but you have fastcore 1.5.11 which is incompatible.
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WARNING: Running pip as the 'root' user can result in broken permissions and conflicting behaviour with the system package manager. It is recommended to use a virtual environment instead: https://pip.pypa.io/warnings/venv
a=1
%notebook -e testnbdev.ipynb
from nbdev.export import nb_export
nb_export('testnbdev.ipynb', '.')
!cat app.py
# AUTOGENERATED! DO NOT EDIT! File to edit: testnbdev.ipynb. # %% auto 0 __all__ = ['a'] # %% testnbdev.ipynb 2 a=1