Added serve option as a post processor.

IPython/nbconvert/post_processors/serve.py

@@ -0,0 +1,45 b''
+"""
+Contains postprocessor for serving nbconvert output.
+"""
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#Copyright (c) 2013, the IPython Development Team.
+#
+#Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.
+#
+#The full license is in the file COPYING.txt, distributed with this software.
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Imports
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+import os
+from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer
+from SimpleHTTPServer import SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
+
+from IPython.utils.traitlets import Unicode
+
+from .base import PostProcessorBase
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Classes
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+class ServePostProcessor(PostProcessorBase):
+    """Post processor designed to serve files"""
+
+
+    build_directory = Unicode(".", config=True, 
+                              help="""Directory to write output to.  Leave blank
+                              to output to the current directory""")
+
+    def call(self, input):
+        """
+        Simple implementation to serve the build directory.
+        """
+        
+        os.chdir(self.build_directory)
+        httpd = HTTPServer(('127.0.0.1', 8000), SimpleHTTPRequestHandler)
+        sa = httpd.socket.getsockname()
+        print("Serving '" + input + "' nbconverted from ipynb on http://" + sa[0] + ":" + str(sa[1]) + "/")
+        print("Use Control-C to stop this server.")
+        httpd.serve_forever()

IPython/nbconvert/nbconvertapp.py

@@ -162,7 +162,8 b' class NbConvertApp(BaseIPythonApplication):'
     post_processor_class = DottedOrNone(config=True, 
                                     help="""PostProcessor class used to write the 
                                     results of the conversion""")
-    post_processor_aliases = {'PDF': 'IPython.nbconvert.post_processors.pdf.PDFPostProcessor'}
+    post_processor_aliases = {'PDF': 'IPython.nbconvert.post_processors.pdf.PDFPostProcessor',
+                              'serve': 'IPython.nbconvert.post_processors.serve.ServePostProcessor'}
     post_processor_factory = Type()
 
     def _post_processor_class_changed(self, name, old, new):

IPython/nbconvert/post_processors/__init__.py

@@ -1,2 +1,3 b''
 from .base import PostProcessorBase
 from .pdf import PDFPostProcessor
+from .serve import ServePostProcessor