[Python] How to programmatically add cells to an iPython notebook for report generation

I have seen a few of the talks by iPython developers about how to convert an iPython notebook to a blog post or to an entire book (minute ~43). The PDF-to-X converter interprets the iPython cells which are written in markdown or code and spits out a newly formatted document in one step.

My problem is that I would like to generate a large document where many of the figures and sections are programmatically generated - something like this. For this to work in iPython using the methods above, I would need to be able to write a function that would write other iPython-Code-Blocks. Does this capability exist?

#some pseudocode to give an idea
for variable in list:
image = make_image(variable)
write_iPython_Markdown_Cell(variable)
write_iPython_Image_cell(image)


How can I achieve this?

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