# %%writefile in Julia

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/writefile-in-julia/49953>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** jupyter\
**Created:** [November 10, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/writefile-in-julia/49953 "2020-11-10T23:12:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jojo\_Dad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jojo_dad/32/8620_2.png) [@Jojo\_Dad](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Jojo_Dad)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/writefile-in-julia/49953/1 "2020-11-10T23:12:34Z")

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In Python, I always used

```julia
%%writefile myfile.py

```

in Jupyter notebooks when I wanted to export the code coming after it. How do I do that in Julia?

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**Author:** ![Jojo\_Dad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jojo_dad/32/8620_2.png) [@Jojo\_Dad](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Jojo_Dad)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 11:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/writefile-in-julia/49953/2 "2020-11-10T23:20:28Z")

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Nevermind! This does the trick:

```julia
write("filename", In[IJulia.n])

```