From c93c6924f6e97b7bbb9ab04fdebe29c15531e6aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Min RK <benjaminrk@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 10:33:23 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] allow hyphen and dot in kernelspec names

---
 notebook/services/kernelspecs/handlers.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/notebook/services/kernelspecs/handlers.py b/notebook/services/kernelspecs/handlers.py
index bef4aff15..279731f54 100644
--- a/notebook/services/kernelspecs/handlers.py
+++ b/notebook/services/kernelspecs/handlers.py
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ class KernelSpecHandler(APIHandler):
 
 # URL to handler mappings
 
-kernel_name_regex = r"(?P<kernel_name>\w+)"
+kernel_name_regex = r"(?P<kernel_name>[\w\.\-]+)"
 
 default_handlers = [
     (r"/api/kernelspecs", MainKernelSpecHandler),