One reason I’ve been writing Lark, the static site generator that now powers this site, was to have the freedom to cook up unique ways of merging writing and data analysis.
Thankfully, I’m glad to say I hit the first milestone on that path today. It took a bit of hacking, but thanks to Matthew Rocklin’s great new pymarkdown module, Lark now executes Python code blocks in posts when it builds the site.
The end result? I can now stick this in a post …
```Python
>>> x = 3
>>> x + 1
[should be 4]
>>> 2 + 2*x
missing or wrong results will be overwritten
```
… and have it show up as this:
>>> x = 3
>>> x + 1
[should be 4]
>>> 2 + 2*x
missing or wrong results will be overwritten
Lark still needs a lot of work, but it’s fun to think about the possibilities this opens up.