import pickle
import nbformat

with open('/code/webpanel_ntbk.ipynb', 'r') as f:
    notebook = nbformat.read(f, nbformat.NO_CONVERT);

with open('/code/notebook.pkl', 'wb') as f:
    pickle.dump(notebook, f)

#with open('/code/webpanel_ntbk.py', 'w') as fw:
#    fw.write(repr(app))