From fbc198ba8e21f40ef320197b3e3fe49bf5e3b958 2014-01-31 18:03:56
From: Min RK <benjaminrk@gmail.com>
Date: 2014-01-31 18:03:56
Subject: [PATCH] Merge pull request #4966 from takluyver/sign-blank-app-argv

Ignore sys.argv in NotebookNotary

when creating a BaseIPythonApplication just for its profile_dir
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diff --git a/IPython/nbformat/sign.py b/IPython/nbformat/sign.py
index f13d7cd..c65ad0e 100644
--- a/IPython/nbformat/sign.py
+++ b/IPython/nbformat/sign.py
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ class NotebookNotary(LoggingConfigurable):
         if app is None:
             # create an app, without the global instance
             app = BaseIPythonApplication()
-            app.initialize()
+            app.initialize(argv=[])
         return app.profile_dir
     
     algorithm = Enum(algorithms, default_value='sha256', config=True,