Coursera lab notebooks on local Jupyter - weird behaviour

[Jameelch]

I have a weird behaviour that I have seen with notebooks that I download from Coursera labs to run on my local PC (Conda Jupyter) environment.

Basically the notebook opens fine on my local machine. However, if I click in a cell to try and execute it, the cell just turns blank! There is nothing there. I can close and reopen the notebook - same behaviour. The weird thing is that it only happens with some notebooks, not all.

Any ideas?

[Jameelch]

Ok, I think I can answer my own question in case somebody runs into this issue.

Anaconda navigator v2.6.0 does not have a tile to install Jupyterlab (it used in older versions). Instead you can install Anaconda Toolbox which installs a version of Jupyterlab (v3.6.X). That version creates this weird behaviour.

I installed Jupyter v4.2.0 via Conda-forge and I can confirm that the notebooks now load and run fine.

[TMosh]

Thanks for your report.

[Saptarshi02]

How to use DeepLearning.ai Jupyter lab notebook locally with Anaconda

2025-04-17T18:30:00Z
There are many threads in this site related to same , and I found some pretty hard to install in my system , some works some don’t .
But with latest version of everything you can run the notebook easily so
You

1. need Anaconda LTS to be installed , you can find steps for installation it from anywhere in internet , easy task. It is about 5GB , so you should have enough space in C Drive…
2. Need to set up Conda-forge channel using anaconda-prompt
   A brief introduction | conda-forge | community-driven packaging for conda follow the steps from this site
3. create a conda virtual environment with latest python version

conda create --myenv   // as per you suitable name which is saved at registered dir 

if want to create in a specific dir

conda create --prefix ./envs

4. Activation command : conda activate myenv
   if it is in default registered dir or conda activate "full\path\to\env\dir"
   Use conda env list command to check if you correctly set up the env or not
   follow the site for more ``

Managing environments — conda 25.3.2.dev14 documentation

5. after activation install ipympl using conda install -c conda-forge ipympl
6. Also install jupyterlab and its corresponding (necessary step)

conda install --channel=conda-forge jupyterlab jupyterlab-favorites jupyterlab-system-monitor nb_conda_kernels``` step run  ```jupyter nbextension enable --py --sys-prefix ipympl

8. so in this all process numpy , matplotlib are installed
9. for precaution purpose runjupyter nbextension enable --py --sys-prefix ipympl
10. At the end run jupyter lab so it may open at localhost:8888 and you can run all Course 1 optional Lab ipynb files
11. Here is a list of packages solved some problems of interactive matplotlib and other

Conda Environment Packages

Name	Version	Build	Channel
_openmp_mutex	4.5	2_gnu	conda-forge
anyio	4.9.0	pyh29332c3_0	conda-forge
argon2-cffi	23.1.0	pyhd8ed1ab_1	conda-forge
argon2-cffi-bindings	21.2.0	py313ha7868ed_5	conda-forge
arrow	1.3.0	pyhd8ed1ab_1	conda-forge
asttokens	3.0.0	pyhd8ed1ab_1	conda-forge
attrs	25.3.0	pyh71513ae_0	conda-forge
babel	2.17.0	pyhd8ed1ab_0	conda-forge
beautifulsoup4	4.13.4	pyha770c72_0	conda-forge
bleach	6.2.0	pyh29332c3_4	conda-forge
bleach-with-css	6.2.0	h82add2a_4	conda-forge
brotli	1.1.0	h2466b09_2	conda-forge
brotli-bin	1.1.0	h2466b09_2	conda-forge
brotli-python	1.1.0	py313h5813708_2	conda-forge
bzip2	1.0.8	h2466b09_7	conda-forge
ca-certificates	2025.1.31	h56e8100_0	conda-forge
cached-property	1.5.2	hd8ed1ab_1	conda-forge
cached_property	1.5.2	pyha770c72_1	conda-forge
certifi	2025.1.31	pyhd8ed1ab_0	conda-forge
cffi	1.17.1	py313ha7868ed_0	conda-forge
charset-normalizer	3.4.1	pyhd8ed1ab_0	conda-forge
colorama	0.4.6	pyhd8ed1ab_1	conda-forge
comm	0.2.2	pyhd8ed1ab_1	conda-forge
contourpy	1.3.2	py313h1ec8472_0	conda-forge
cpython	3.13.3	py313hd8ed1ab_101	conda-forge
cycler	0.12.1	pyhd8ed1ab_1	conda-forge
debugpy	1.8.14	py313h5813708_0	conda-forge
decorator	5.2.1	pyhd8ed1ab_0	conda-forge
defusedxml	0.7.1	pyhd8ed1ab_0	conda-forge
entrypoints	0.4	pyhd8ed1ab_1	conda-forge
exceptiongroup	1.2.2	pyhd8ed1ab_1	conda-forge
executing	2.1.0	pyhd8ed1ab_1	conda-forge
fonttools	4.57.0	py313hb4c8b1a_0	conda-forge
fqdn	1.5.1	pyhd8ed1ab_1	conda-forge
freetype	2.13.3	h0b5ce68_0	conda-forge
h2	4.2.0	pyhd8ed1ab_0	conda-forge
hpack	4.1.0	pyhd8ed1ab_0	conda-forge
hyperframe	6.1.0	pyhd8ed1ab_0	conda-forge
idna	3.10	pyhd8ed1ab_1	conda-forge
importlib-metadata	8.6.1	pyha770c72_0	conda-forge
importlib_resources	6.5.2	pyhd8ed1ab_0	conda-forge
intel-openmp	2024.2.1	h57928b3_1083	conda-forge
ipykernel	6.29.5	pyh4bbf305_0	conda-forge
ipympl	0.9.7	pyhd8ed1ab_1	conda-forge
ipython	9.1.0	pyhca29cf9_0	conda-forge
ipython_genutils	0.2.0	pyhd8ed1ab_2	conda-forge
ipython_pygments_lexers	1.1.1	pyhd8ed1ab_0	conda-forge
ipywidgets	8.1.6	pyhd8ed1ab_0	conda-forge
isoduration	20.11.0	pyhd8ed1ab_1	conda-forge
jedi	0.19.2	pyhd8ed1ab_1	conda-forge
jinja2	3.1.6	pyhd8ed1ab_0	conda-forge
json5	0.12.0	pyhd8ed1ab_0	conda-forge
jsonpointer	3.0.0	py313hfa70ccb_1	conda-forge
jsonschema	4.23.0	pyhd8ed1ab_1	conda-forge
jsonschema-specifications	2024.10.1	pyhd8ed1ab_1	conda-forge
jsonschema-with-format-nongpl	4.23.0	hd8ed1ab_1	conda-forge
jupyter-resource-usage	0.7.1	pyhd8ed1ab_0	conda-forge
jupyter_client	7.4.9	pyhd8ed1ab_0	conda-forge
jupyter_core	5.7.2	pyh5737063_1	conda-forge
jupyter_events	0.12.0	pyh29332c3_0	conda-forge
jupyter_server	2.15.0	pyhd8ed1ab_0	conda-forge
jupyter_server_terminals	0.5.3	pyhd8ed1ab_1	conda-forge
jupyterlab	3.5.3	pyhd8ed1ab_0	conda-forge
jupyterlab-favorites	3.2.2	pyhd8ed1ab_0	conda-forge
jupyterlab-system-monitor	0.8.0	pyhd8ed1ab_2	conda-forge
jupyterlab-topbar	0.6.1	pyhd8ed1ab_3	conda-forge
jupyterlab_pygments	0.3.0	pyhd8ed1ab_0	conda-forge
jupyterlab_server	2.27.3	pyhd8ed1ab_1	conda-forge
jupyterlab_widgets	3.0.14	pyhd8ed1ab_0	conda-forge
kiwisolver	1.4.7	py313h1ec8472_0	conda-forge
krb5	1.21.3	hdf4eb48_0	conda-forge
lcms2	2.17	hbcf6048_0	conda-forge
lerc	4.0.0	h63175ca_0	conda-forge
libblas	3.9.0	31_h641d27c_mkl	conda-forge
libbrotlicommon	1.1.0	h2466b09_2	conda-forge
libbrotlidec	1.1.0	h2466b09_2	conda-forge
libbrotlienc	1.1.0	h2466b09_2	conda-forge
libcblas	3.9.0	31_h5e41251_mkl	conda-forge
libdeflate	1.23	h9062f6e_0	conda-forge
libexpat	2.7.0	he0c23c2_0	conda-forge
libffi	3.4.6	h537db12_1	conda-forge
libgcc	14.2.0	h1383e82_2	conda-forge
libgomp	14.2.0	h1383e82_2	conda-forge
libhwloc	2.11.2	default_ha69328c_1001	conda-forge
libiconv	1.18	h135ad9c_1	conda-forge
libjpeg-turbo	3.0.0	hcfcfb64_1	conda-forge
liblapack	3.9.0	31_h1aa476e_mkl	conda-forge
liblzma	5.8.1	h2466b09_0	conda-forge
libmpdec	4.0.0	h2466b09_0	conda-forge
libpng	1.6.47	had7236b_0	conda-forge
libsodium	1.0.20	hc70643c_0	conda-forge
libsqlite	3.49.1	h67fdade_2	conda-forge
libtiff	4.7.0	h797046b_3	conda-forge
libwebp-base	1.5.0	h3b0e114_0	conda-forge
libwinpthread	12.0.0.r4.gg4f2fc60ca	h57928b3_9	conda-forge
libxcb	1.17.0	h0e4246cáj

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