Clean up the title-setting code.

IPython/frontend/wx/console_widget.py

@@ -196,9 +196,14 b' class ConsoleWidget(editwindow.EditWindow):'
         """ Write given text to buffer, while translating the ansi escape
             sequences.
         """
+        # XXX: do not put print statements in this method, the print
+        # statements will call this method, and you will end up with
+        # an infinit loop
         title = self.title_pat.split(text)
-        if len(title)>0:
-            self.title = title[-1]
+        if len(title)>1:
+            import sys
+            print >>sys.__stderr__, "title :", title
+            self.title = title[-2]
 
         text = self.title_pat.sub('', text)
         segments = self.color_pat.split(text)

IPython/frontend/wx/wx_frontend.py

@@ -241,6 +241,15 b' class WxController(PrefilterFrontEnd, ConsoleWidget):'
             ConsoleWidget._on_key_up(self, event, skip=skip)
 
 
+    def _set_title(self, title):
+            return self.Parent.SetTitle(title)
+
+    def _get_title(self):
+            return self.Parent.GetTitle()
+
+    title = property(_get_title, _set_title)
+
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     class MainWindow(wx.Frame):
         def __init__(self, parent, id, title):