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diff --git a/notebooks/run_all_notebooks.py b/notebooks/run_all_notebooks.py
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+import shlex
+import sys
+from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
+
+import importlib_resources
+import pkg_resources
+from importlib_resources import path
+from ipython_genutils.py3compat import string_types, bytes_to_str
+
+
+# taken from https://github.com/jupyter/nbconvert/blob/master/nbconvert/tests/base.py
+def run_python(parameters, ignore_return_code=False, stdin=None):
+    """
+    Run python as a shell command, listening for both Errors and
+    non-zero return codes. Returns the tuple (stdout, stderr) of
+    output produced during the nbconvert run.
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    parameters : str, list(str)
+        List of parameters to pass to IPython.
+    ignore_return_code : optional bool (default False)
+        Throw an OSError if the return code
+    """
+    cmd = [sys.executable]
+    if sys.platform == 'win32':
+        if isinstance(parameters, string_types):
+            cmd = ' '.join(cmd) + ' ' + parameters
+        else:
+            cmd = ' '.join(cmd + parameters)
+    else:
+        if isinstance(parameters, string_types):
+            parameters = shlex.split(parameters)
+        cmd += parameters
+    p = Popen(cmd, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE, stdin=PIPE)
+    stdout, stderr = p.communicate(input=stdin)
+    if not (p.returncode == 0 or ignore_return_code):
+        raise OSError(bytes_to_str(stderr))
+    return stdout.decode('utf8', 'replace'), stderr.decode('utf8', 'replace')
+
+
+for entry in [entry for entry in importlib_resources.contents('notebooks') if
+              not pkg_resources.resource_isdir('notebooks', entry)
+              and entry.endswith(".ipynb")
+              ]:
+    print("*****************************************************************")
+    print("Converting and running {}".format(entry))
+    print("*****************************************************************")
+
+    with path('notebooks', entry) as file_in:
+        out, err = run_python(" -m jupyter nbconvert --execute --to notebook --inplace " + str(file_in))
+        sys.stderr.write(err)
+        sys.stderr.flush()
+        sys.stdout.write(out)
+        sys.stdout.flush()