FR: Support remote notebooks about geopyter HOT 5 CLOSED

It looks to me like read_nb is the key thing here in terms of enabling remote files to be used — this makes a call to:

# Read-only in UTF-8, note NO_CONVERT.
with io.open(nb, 'r', encoding='utf8') as f:
 nb = nbformat.read(f, nbformat.NO_CONVERT)

If that can work with remote files then this is a trivial fix. If it can’t then we’d probably just want to download and save a copy to a local temp directory.

The other thing I can see is that the ‘src’ attribute needs some thought as I’m not sure that we had envisioned a remote URL then calling other notebooks to be included. This should be solvable if the general problem is solvable (you just need to remember to check if src is local or remote and then parse the includes accordingly) but as with all things that seem easy a lot will depend on whether I came up with an elegant solution to this back in the day.

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I think we can handle this as we can test for the scheme in the opener and dispatch accordingly.
On a related note, urllib has undergone major refactoring between python2 and python3. We started with python2 for this project but I think we might want to revisit that decision as a lot content is now python3 only. We probably don't want to have two versions of gp, or one version that can support 2 and 3 (having scars that are still not healed from the pysal 2 to 3 transition).

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Cool. I'll work on refactoring to 3 only and handling the remote v. local reads.

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Resolved. Though I think it still outputs a message the remote reads aren't supported.

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