Jupyter book: Show content of a script file inside a book chapter

[jjkoehorst]

I am trying to maintain all the code in one location and not in the book and in a script folder.
Is it possible to show the content of an example.py within a page?

This makes it easier to maintain code changes and automatically update the book accordingly.

The code does not have to be executed.

[choldgraf]

Yes! Try the literalinclude directive:

```{literalinclude} ../example.py
```

Does that work?

[jjkoehorst]

Thanks for the fast reply! It works perfectly.
I just did a quick search with this in https://jupyterbook.org/en/stable/search.html?q=literalinclude but there is no documentation for it?