diff --git a/extensions/notebook-renderers/src/stackTraceHelper.ts b/extensions/notebook-renderers/src/stackTraceHelper.ts
index 79441e8db35..3228628029d 100644
--- a/extensions/notebook-renderers/src/stackTraceHelper.ts
+++ b/extensions/notebook-renderers/src/stackTraceHelper.ts
@@ -22,5 +22,46 @@ export function formatStackTrace(stack: string) {
 		return `${prefix}${num}${suffix}\n`;
 	});
 
+	if (isIpythonStackTrace(stack)) {
+		return linkifyStack(stack);
+	}
+
 	return cleaned;
 }
+
+function isIpythonStackTrace(stack: string) {
+	const cellIdentifier = /^Cell In\[\d+\], line \d+$/gm;
+	return cellIdentifier.test(stack);
+}
+
+const fileRegex = /^File\s+(.+):\d+/;
+const lineNumberRegex = /([ ->]*?)(\d+)(.*)/;
+
+function linkifyStack(stack: string) {
+	const lines = stack.split('\n');
+
+	let fileOrCell: string | undefined;
+
+	for (const i in lines) {
+
+		const original = lines[i];
+		console.log(`linkify ${original}`); // REMOVE
+		if (fileRegex.test(original)) {
+			const fileMatch = lines[i].match(fileRegex);
+			fileOrCell = fileMatch![1];
+			console.log(`matched file ${fileOrCell}`); // REMOVE
+			continue;
+		} else if (!fileOrCell || original.trim() === '') {
+			// we don't have a location, so don't linkify anything
+			fileOrCell = undefined;
+			continue;
+		} else if (lineNumberRegex.test(original)) {
+			console.log(`linkify line ${original}`); // REMOVE
+			lines[i] = original.replace(lineNumberRegex, (_s, prefix, num, suffix) => {
+				return `${prefix}<a href='${fileOrCell}:${num}'>${num}</a>${suffix}`;
+			});
+		}
+	}
+
+	return lines.join('\n');
+}
diff --git a/extensions/notebook-renderers/src/test/stackTraceHelper.test.ts b/extensions/notebook-renderers/src/test/stackTraceHelper.test.ts
index 0fe1b861488..b40ec59e652 100644
--- a/extensions/notebook-renderers/src/test/stackTraceHelper.test.ts
+++ b/extensions/notebook-renderers/src/test/stackTraceHelper.test.ts
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ suite('StackTraceHelper', () => {
 		assert.equal(formatStackTrace(stack), stack);
 	});
 
-	test('IPython cell references are linkified', () => {
+	test('IPython stack line numbers are linkified', () => {
 		const stack =
 			'---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n' +
 			'Exception                                 Traceback(most recent call last)\n' +
@@ -31,7 +31,21 @@ suite('StackTraceHelper', () => {
 			'----> 2     raise Exception\n';
 
 		const formatted = formatStackTrace(stack);
-		assert.ok(formatted.indexOf);
+		assert.ok(formatted.indexOf('<a href=\'C:\\venvs\\myLib.py:2\'>2</a>') > 0, formatted);
+	});
+
+	test('IPython stack trace lines without associated location are not linkified', () => {
+		const stack =
+			'---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n' +
+			'Exception                                 Traceback(most recent call last)\n' +
+			'File C:\\venvs\\myLib.py:2, in throwEx()\n' +
+			'\n' +
+			'unkown reference' +
+			'      1 import myLib\n' + // trace lines without an associated file
+			'----> 2 myLib.throwEx()\n';
+
+		const formatted = formatStackTrace(stack);
+		assert.ok(formatted.indexOf('<a') === -1, formatted);
 	});
 
 });