From ff817d57714b61a30587af250b789d0abf32a605 2014-02-06 23:56:19
From: Christophe Pradal <christophe.pradal@inria.fr>
Date: 2014-02-06 23:56:19
Subject: [PATCH] Add kernel_info method to InProcessShellChannel

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diff --git a/IPython/kernel/inprocess/channels.py b/IPython/kernel/inprocess/channels.py
index 252242f..59f72ef 100644
--- a/IPython/kernel/inprocess/channels.py
+++ b/IPython/kernel/inprocess/channels.py
@@ -128,6 +128,12 @@ class InProcessShellChannel(InProcessChannel):
         # FIXME: What to do here?
         raise NotImplementedError('Cannot shutdown in-process kernel')
 
+    def kernel_info(self):
+        """Request kernel info."""
+        msg = self.client.session.msg('kernel_info_request')
+        self._dispatch_to_kernel(msg)
+        return msg['header']['msg_id']
+
     #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Protected interface
     #--------------------------------------------------------------------------