PromptManager fixes

* InteractiveShell.prompt_foo traits show deprecation warning, and map to new PromptManager traits
* PromptManager properly added to IPython App, so it will show up in config
* add helpstrings to PromptManager traits.
* Docs / embed references to Shell.prompt_foo also updated

IPython/core/interactiveshell.py

@@ -1,2707 +1,2734 b''
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 """Main IPython class."""
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #  Copyright (C) 2001 Janko Hauser <[e-mail]>
 #  Copyright (C) 2001-2007 Fernando Perez. <[e-mail]>
 #  Copyright (C) 2008-2011  The IPython Development Team
 #
 #  Distributed under the terms of the BSD License.  The full license is in
 #  the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Imports
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 from __future__ import with_statement
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 
 import __builtin__ as builtin_mod
 import __future__
 import abc
 import ast
 import atexit
 import codeop
 import inspect
 import os
 import re
 import sys
 import tempfile
 import types
 
 try:
     from contextlib import nested
 except:
     from IPython.utils.nested_context import nested
 
 from IPython.config.configurable import SingletonConfigurable
 from IPython.core import debugger, oinspect
 from IPython.core import history as ipcorehist
 from IPython.core import page
 from IPython.core import prefilter
 from IPython.core import shadowns
 from IPython.core import ultratb
 from IPython.core.alias import AliasManager, AliasError
 from IPython.core.autocall import ExitAutocall
 from IPython.core.builtin_trap import BuiltinTrap
 from IPython.core.compilerop import CachingCompiler
 from IPython.core.display_trap import DisplayTrap
 from IPython.core.displayhook import DisplayHook
 from IPython.core.displaypub import DisplayPublisher
 from IPython.core.error import TryNext, UsageError
 from IPython.core.extensions import ExtensionManager
 from IPython.core.fakemodule import FakeModule, init_fakemod_dict
 from IPython.core.formatters import DisplayFormatter
 from IPython.core.history import HistoryManager
 from IPython.core.inputsplitter import IPythonInputSplitter
 from IPython.core.logger import Logger
 from IPython.core.macro import Macro
 from IPython.core.magic import Magic
 from IPython.core.payload import PayloadManager
 from IPython.core.plugin import PluginManager
 from IPython.core.prefilter import PrefilterManager, ESC_MAGIC
 from IPython.core.profiledir import ProfileDir
 from IPython.core.pylabtools import pylab_activate
 from IPython.core.prompts import PromptManager
 from IPython.external.Itpl import ItplNS
 from IPython.utils import PyColorize
 from IPython.utils import io
 from IPython.utils import py3compat
 from IPython.utils.doctestreload import doctest_reload
 from IPython.utils.io import ask_yes_no, rprint
 from IPython.utils.ipstruct import Struct
 from IPython.utils.path import get_home_dir, get_ipython_dir, HomeDirError
 from IPython.utils.pickleshare import PickleShareDB
 from IPython.utils.process import system, getoutput
 from IPython.utils.strdispatch import StrDispatch
 from IPython.utils.syspathcontext import prepended_to_syspath
 from IPython.utils.text import (num_ini_spaces, format_screen, LSString, SList,
                                 DollarFormatter)
 from IPython.utils.traitlets import (Integer, CBool, CaselessStrEnum, Enum,
                                      List, Unicode, Instance, Type)
 from IPython.utils.warn import warn, error, fatal
 import IPython.core.hooks
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Globals
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # compiled regexps for autoindent management
 dedent_re = re.compile(r'^\s+raise|^\s+return|^\s+pass')
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Utilities
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 def softspace(file, newvalue):
     """Copied from code.py, to remove the dependency"""
 
     oldvalue = 0
     try:
         oldvalue = file.softspace
     except AttributeError:
         pass
     try:
         file.softspace = newvalue
     except (AttributeError, TypeError):
         # "attribute-less object" or "read-only attributes"
         pass
     return oldvalue
 
 
 def no_op(*a, **kw): pass
 
 class NoOpContext(object):
     def __enter__(self): pass
     def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback): pass
 no_op_context = NoOpContext()
 
 class SpaceInInput(Exception): pass
 
 class Bunch: pass
 
 
 def get_default_colors():
     if sys.platform=='darwin':
         return "LightBG"
     elif os.name=='nt':
         return 'Linux'
     else:
         return 'Linux'
 
 
 class SeparateUnicode(Unicode):
     """A Unicode subclass to validate separate_in, separate_out, etc.
 
     This is a Unicode based trait that converts '0'->'' and '\\n'->'\n'.
     """
 
     def validate(self, obj, value):
         if value == '0': value = ''
         value = value.replace('\\n','\n')
         return super(SeparateUnicode, self).validate(obj, value)
 
 
 class ReadlineNoRecord(object):
     """Context manager to execute some code, then reload readline history
     so that interactive input to the code doesn't appear when pressing up."""
     def __init__(self, shell):
         self.shell = shell
         self._nested_level = 0
 
     def __enter__(self):
         if self._nested_level == 0:
             try:
                 self.orig_length = self.current_length()
                 self.readline_tail = self.get_readline_tail()
             except (AttributeError, IndexError):   # Can fail with pyreadline
                 self.orig_length, self.readline_tail = 999999, []
         self._nested_level += 1
 
     def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback):
         self._nested_level -= 1
         if self._nested_level == 0:
             # Try clipping the end if it's got longer
             try:
                 e = self.current_length() - self.orig_length
                 if e > 0:
                     for _ in range(e):
                         self.shell.readline.remove_history_item(self.orig_length)
 
                 # If it still doesn't match, just reload readline history.
                 if self.current_length() != self.orig_length \
                     or self.get_readline_tail() != self.readline_tail:
                     self.shell.refill_readline_hist()
             except (AttributeError, IndexError):
                 pass
         # Returning False will cause exceptions to propagate
         return False
 
     def current_length(self):
         return self.shell.readline.get_current_history_length()
 
     def get_readline_tail(self, n=10):
         """Get the last n items in readline history."""
         end = self.shell.readline.get_current_history_length() + 1
         start = max(end-n, 1)
         ghi = self.shell.readline.get_history_item
         return [ghi(x) for x in range(start, end)]
 
 
 _autocall_help = """
 Make IPython automatically call any callable object even if
 you didn't type explicit parentheses. For example, 'str 43' becomes 'str(43)'
 automatically. The value can be '0' to disable the feature, '1' for 'smart'
 autocall, where it is not applied if there are no more arguments on the line,
 and '2' for 'full' autocall, where all callable objects are automatically
 called (even if no arguments are present). The default is '1'.
 """
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Main IPython class
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 class InteractiveShell(SingletonConfigurable, Magic):
     """An enhanced, interactive shell for Python."""
 
     _instance = None
 
     autocall = Enum((0,1,2), default_value=1, config=True, help=
         """
         Make IPython automatically call any callable object even if you didn't
         type explicit parentheses. For example, 'str 43' becomes 'str(43)'
         automatically. The value can be '0' to disable the feature, '1' for
         'smart' autocall, where it is not applied if there are no more
         arguments on the line, and '2' for 'full' autocall, where all callable
         objects are automatically called (even if no arguments are present).
         The default is '1'.
         """
     )
     # TODO: remove all autoindent logic and put into frontends.
     # We can't do this yet because even runlines uses the autoindent.
     autoindent = CBool(True, config=True, help=
         """
         Autoindent IPython code entered interactively.
         """
     )
     automagic = CBool(True, config=True, help=
         """
         Enable magic commands to be called without the leading %.
         """
     )
     cache_size = Integer(1000, config=True, help=
         """
         Set the size of the output cache.  The default is 1000, you can
         change it permanently in your config file.  Setting it to 0 completely
         disables the caching system, and the minimum value accepted is 20 (if
         you provide a value less than 20, it is reset to 0 and a warning is
         issued).  This limit is defined because otherwise you'll spend more
         time re-flushing a too small cache than working
         """
     )
     color_info = CBool(True, config=True, help=
         """
         Use colors for displaying information about objects. Because this
         information is passed through a pager (like 'less'), and some pagers
         get confused with color codes, this capability can be turned off.
         """
     )
     colors = CaselessStrEnum(('NoColor','LightBG','Linux'),
                              default_value=get_default_colors(), config=True,
         help="Set the color scheme (NoColor, Linux, or LightBG)."
     )
     colors_force = CBool(False, help=
         """
         Force use of ANSI color codes, regardless of OS and readline
         availability.
         """
         # FIXME: This is essentially a hack to allow ZMQShell to show colors
         # without readline on Win32. When the ZMQ formatting system is
         # refactored, this should be removed.
     )
     debug = CBool(False, config=True)
     deep_reload = CBool(False, config=True, help=
         """
         Enable deep (recursive) reloading by default. IPython can use the
         deep_reload module which reloads changes in modules recursively (it
         replaces the reload() function, so you don't need to change anything to
         use it). deep_reload() forces a full reload of modules whose code may
         have changed, which the default reload() function does not.  When
         deep_reload is off, IPython will use the normal reload(), but
         deep_reload will still be available as dreload().
         """
     )
     display_formatter = Instance(DisplayFormatter)
     displayhook_class = Type(DisplayHook)
     display_pub_class = Type(DisplayPublisher)
 
     exit_now = CBool(False)
     exiter = Instance(ExitAutocall)
     def _exiter_default(self):
         return ExitAutocall(self)
     # Monotonically increasing execution counter
     execution_count = Integer(1)
     filename = Unicode("<ipython console>")
     ipython_dir= Unicode('', config=True) # Set to get_ipython_dir() in __init__
 
     # Input splitter, to split entire cells of input into either individual
     # interactive statements or whole blocks.
     input_splitter = Instance('IPython.core.inputsplitter.IPythonInputSplitter',
                               (), {})
     logstart = CBool(False, config=True, help=
         """
         Start logging to the default log file.
         """
     )
     logfile = Unicode('', config=True, help=
         """
         The name of the logfile to use.
         """
     )
     logappend = Unicode('', config=True, help=
         """
         Start logging to the given file in append mode.
         """
     )
     object_info_string_level = Enum((0,1,2), default_value=0,
                                     config=True)
     pdb = CBool(False, config=True, help=
         """
         Automatically call the pdb debugger after every exception.
         """
     )
     multiline_history = CBool(sys.platform != 'win32', config=True,
         help="Save multi-line entries as one entry in readline history"
     )
 
-    prompt_in1 = Unicode('In [\\#]: ', config=True)
-    prompt_in2 = Unicode('   .\\D.: ', config=True)
-    prompt_out = Unicode('Out[\\#]: ', config=True)
-    prompts_pad_left = CBool(True, config=True)
+    # deprecated prompt traits:
+    
+    prompt_in1 = Unicode('In [\\#]: ', config=True,
+        help="Deprecated, use PromptManager.in_template")
+    prompt_in2 = Unicode('   .\\D.: ', config=True,
+        help="Deprecated, use PromptManager.in2_template")
+    prompt_out = Unicode('Out[\\#]: ', config=True,
+        help="Deprecated, use PromptManager.out_template")
+    prompts_pad_left = CBool(True, config=True,
+        help="Deprecated, use PromptManager.justify")
+    
+    def _prompt_trait_changed(self, name, old, new):
+        table = {
+            'prompt_in1' : 'in_template',
+            'prompt_in2' : 'in2_template',
+            'prompt_out' : 'out_template',
+            'prompts_pad_left' : 'justify',
+        }
+        warn("InteractiveShell.{name} is deprecated, use PromptManager.{newname}\n".format(
+                name=name, newname=table[name])
+        )
+        # protect against weird cases where self.config may not exist:
+        if self.config is not None:
+            # propagate to corresponding PromptManager trait
+            setattr(self.config.PromptManager, table[name], new)
+    
+    _prompt_in1_changed = _prompt_trait_changed
+    _prompt_in2_changed = _prompt_trait_changed
+    _prompt_out_changed = _prompt_trait_changed
+    _prompt_pad_left_changed = _prompt_trait_changed
+    
     quiet = CBool(False, config=True)
 
     history_length = Integer(10000, config=True)
 
     # The readline stuff will eventually be moved to the terminal subclass
     # but for now, we can't do that as readline is welded in everywhere.
     readline_use = CBool(True, config=True)
     readline_remove_delims = Unicode('-/~', config=True)
     # don't use \M- bindings by default, because they
     # conflict with 8-bit encodings. See gh-58,gh-88
     readline_parse_and_bind = List([
             'tab: complete',
             '"\C-l": clear-screen',
             'set show-all-if-ambiguous on',
             '"\C-o": tab-insert',
             '"\C-r": reverse-search-history',
             '"\C-s": forward-search-history',
             '"\C-p": history-search-backward',
             '"\C-n": history-search-forward',
             '"\e[A": history-search-backward',
             '"\e[B": history-search-forward',
             '"\C-k": kill-line',
             '"\C-u": unix-line-discard',
         ], allow_none=False, config=True)
 
     # TODO: this part of prompt management should be moved to the frontends.
     # Use custom TraitTypes that convert '0'->'' and '\\n'->'\n'
     separate_in = SeparateUnicode('\n', config=True)
     separate_out = SeparateUnicode('', config=True)
     separate_out2 = SeparateUnicode('', config=True)
     wildcards_case_sensitive = CBool(True, config=True)
     xmode = CaselessStrEnum(('Context','Plain', 'Verbose'),
                             default_value='Context', config=True)
 
     # Subcomponents of InteractiveShell
     alias_manager = Instance('IPython.core.alias.AliasManager')
     prefilter_manager = Instance('IPython.core.prefilter.PrefilterManager')
     builtin_trap = Instance('IPython.core.builtin_trap.BuiltinTrap')
     display_trap = Instance('IPython.core.display_trap.DisplayTrap')
     extension_manager = Instance('IPython.core.extensions.ExtensionManager')
     plugin_manager = Instance('IPython.core.plugin.PluginManager')
     payload_manager = Instance('IPython.core.payload.PayloadManager')
     history_manager = Instance('IPython.core.history.HistoryManager')
 
     profile_dir = Instance('IPython.core.application.ProfileDir')
     @property
     def profile(self):
         if self.profile_dir is not None:
             name = os.path.basename(self.profile_dir.location)
             return name.replace('profile_','')
 
 
     # Private interface
     _post_execute = Instance(dict)
 
     def __init__(self, config=None, ipython_dir=None, profile_dir=None,
                  user_module=None, user_ns=None,
                  custom_exceptions=((), None)):
 
         # This is where traits with a config_key argument are updated
         # from the values on config.
         super(InteractiveShell, self).__init__(config=config)
         self.configurables = [self]
 
         # These are relatively independent and stateless
         self.init_ipython_dir(ipython_dir)
         self.init_profile_dir(profile_dir)
         self.init_instance_attrs()
         self.init_environment()
 
         # Create namespaces (user_ns, user_global_ns, etc.)
         self.init_create_namespaces(user_module, user_ns)
         # This has to be done after init_create_namespaces because it uses
         # something in self.user_ns, but before init_sys_modules, which
         # is the first thing to modify sys.
         # TODO: When we override sys.stdout and sys.stderr before this class
         # is created, we are saving the overridden ones here. Not sure if this
         # is what we want to do.
         self.save_sys_module_state()
         self.init_sys_modules()
 
         # While we're trying to have each part of the code directly access what
         # it needs without keeping redundant references to objects, we have too
         # much legacy code that expects ip.db to exist.
         self.db = PickleShareDB(os.path.join(self.profile_dir.location, 'db'))
 
         self.init_history()
         self.init_encoding()
         self.init_prefilter()
 
         Magic.__init__(self, self)
 
         self.init_syntax_highlighting()
         self.init_hooks()
         self.init_pushd_popd_magic()
         # self.init_traceback_handlers use to be here, but we moved it below
         # because it and init_io have to come after init_readline.
         self.init_user_ns()
         self.init_logger()
         self.init_alias()
         self.init_builtins()
 
         # pre_config_initialization
 
         # The next section should contain everything that was in ipmaker.
         self.init_logstart()
 
         # The following was in post_config_initialization
         self.init_inspector()
         # init_readline() must come before init_io(), because init_io uses
         # readline related things.
         self.init_readline()
         # We save this here in case user code replaces raw_input, but it needs
         # to be after init_readline(), because PyPy's readline works by replacing
         # raw_input.
         if py3compat.PY3:
             self.raw_input_original = input
         else:
             self.raw_input_original = raw_input
         # init_completer must come after init_readline, because it needs to
         # know whether readline is present or not system-wide to configure the
         # completers, since the completion machinery can now operate
         # independently of readline (e.g. over the network)
         self.init_completer()
         # TODO: init_io() needs to happen before init_traceback handlers
         # because the traceback handlers hardcode the stdout/stderr streams.
         # This logic in in debugger.Pdb and should eventually be changed.
         self.init_io()
         self.init_traceback_handlers(custom_exceptions)
         self.init_prompts()
         self.init_display_formatter()
         self.init_display_pub()
         self.init_displayhook()
         self.init_reload_doctest()
         self.init_magics()
         self.init_pdb()
         self.init_extension_manager()
         self.init_plugin_manager()
         self.init_payload()
         self.hooks.late_startup_hook()
         atexit.register(self.atexit_operations)
 
     def get_ipython(self):
         """Return the currently running IPython instance."""
         return self
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Trait changed handlers
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def _ipython_dir_changed(self, name, new):
         if not os.path.isdir(new):
             os.makedirs(new, mode = 0777)
 
     def set_autoindent(self,value=None):
         """Set the autoindent flag, checking for readline support.
 
         If called with no arguments, it acts as a toggle."""
 
         if value != 0 and not self.has_readline:
             if os.name == 'posix':
                 warn("The auto-indent feature requires the readline library")
             self.autoindent = 0
             return
         if value is None:
             self.autoindent = not self.autoindent
         else:
             self.autoindent = value
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # init_* methods called by __init__
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def init_ipython_dir(self, ipython_dir):
         if ipython_dir is not None:
             self.ipython_dir = ipython_dir
             return
 
         self.ipython_dir = get_ipython_dir()
 
     def init_profile_dir(self, profile_dir):
         if profile_dir is not None:
             self.profile_dir = profile_dir
             return
         self.profile_dir =\
             ProfileDir.create_profile_dir_by_name(self.ipython_dir, 'default')
 
     def init_instance_attrs(self):
         self.more = False
 
         # command compiler
         self.compile = CachingCompiler()
 
         # Make an empty namespace, which extension writers can rely on both
         # existing and NEVER being used by ipython itself.  This gives them a
         # convenient location for storing additional information and state
         # their extensions may require, without fear of collisions with other
         # ipython names that may develop later.
         self.meta = Struct()
 
         # Temporary files used for various purposes.  Deleted at exit.
         self.tempfiles = []
 
         # Keep track of readline usage (later set by init_readline)
         self.has_readline = False
 
         # keep track of where we started running (mainly for crash post-mortem)
         # This is not being used anywhere currently.
         self.starting_dir = os.getcwdu()
 
         # Indentation management
         self.indent_current_nsp = 0
 
         # Dict to track post-execution functions that have been registered
         self._post_execute = {}
 
     def init_environment(self):
         """Any changes we need to make to the user's environment."""
         pass
 
     def init_encoding(self):
         # Get system encoding at startup time.  Certain terminals (like Emacs
         # under Win32 have it set to None, and we need to have a known valid
         # encoding to use in the raw_input() method
         try:
             self.stdin_encoding = sys.stdin.encoding or 'ascii'
         except AttributeError:
             self.stdin_encoding = 'ascii'
 
     def init_syntax_highlighting(self):
         # Python source parser/formatter for syntax highlighting
         pyformat = PyColorize.Parser().format
         self.pycolorize = lambda src: pyformat(src,'str',self.colors)
 
     def init_pushd_popd_magic(self):
         # for pushd/popd management
         self.home_dir = get_home_dir()
 
         self.dir_stack = []
 
     def init_logger(self):
         self.logger = Logger(self.home_dir, logfname='ipython_log.py',
                              logmode='rotate')
 
     def init_logstart(self):
         """Initialize logging in case it was requested at the command line.
         """
         if self.logappend:
             self.magic_logstart(self.logappend + ' append')
         elif self.logfile:
             self.magic_logstart(self.logfile)
         elif self.logstart:
             self.magic_logstart()
 
     def init_builtins(self):
         self.builtin_trap = BuiltinTrap(shell=self)
 
     def init_inspector(self):
         # Object inspector
         self.inspector = oinspect.Inspector(oinspect.InspectColors,
                                             PyColorize.ANSICodeColors,
                                             'NoColor',
                                             self.object_info_string_level)
 
     def init_io(self):
         # This will just use sys.stdout and sys.stderr. If you want to
         # override sys.stdout and sys.stderr themselves, you need to do that
         # *before* instantiating this class, because io holds onto
         # references to the underlying streams.
         if sys.platform == 'win32' and self.has_readline:
             io.stdout = io.stderr = io.IOStream(self.readline._outputfile)
         else:
             io.stdout = io.IOStream(sys.stdout)
             io.stderr = io.IOStream(sys.stderr)
 
     def init_prompts(self):
         self.prompt_manager = PromptManager(shell=self, config=self.config)
         self.configurables.append(self.prompt_manager)
 
     def init_display_formatter(self):
         self.display_formatter = DisplayFormatter(config=self.config)
         self.configurables.append(self.display_formatter)
 
     def init_display_pub(self):
         self.display_pub = self.display_pub_class(config=self.config)
         self.configurables.append(self.display_pub)
 
     def init_displayhook(self):
         # Initialize displayhook, set in/out prompts and printing system
         self.displayhook = self.displayhook_class(
             config=self.config,
             shell=self,
             cache_size=self.cache_size,
         )
         self.configurables.append(self.displayhook)
         # This is a context manager that installs/revmoes the displayhook at
         # the appropriate time.
         self.display_trap = DisplayTrap(hook=self.displayhook)
 
     def init_reload_doctest(self):
         # Do a proper resetting of doctest, including the necessary displayhook
         # monkeypatching
         try:
             doctest_reload()
         except ImportError:
             warn("doctest module does not exist.")
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Things related to injections into the sys module
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def save_sys_module_state(self):
         """Save the state of hooks in the sys module.
 
         This has to be called after self.user_module is created.
         """
         self._orig_sys_module_state = {}
         self._orig_sys_module_state['stdin'] = sys.stdin
         self._orig_sys_module_state['stdout'] = sys.stdout
         self._orig_sys_module_state['stderr'] = sys.stderr
         self._orig_sys_module_state['excepthook'] = sys.excepthook
         self._orig_sys_modules_main_name = self.user_module.__name__
 
     def restore_sys_module_state(self):
         """Restore the state of the sys module."""
         try:
             for k, v in self._orig_sys_module_state.iteritems():
                 setattr(sys, k, v)
         except AttributeError:
             pass
         # Reset what what done in self.init_sys_modules
         sys.modules[self.user_module.__name__] = self._orig_sys_modules_main_name
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Things related to hooks
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def init_hooks(self):
         # hooks holds pointers used for user-side customizations
         self.hooks = Struct()
 
         self.strdispatchers = {}
 
         # Set all default hooks, defined in the IPython.hooks module.
         hooks = IPython.core.hooks
         for hook_name in hooks.__all__:
             # default hooks have priority 100, i.e. low; user hooks should have
             # 0-100 priority
             self.set_hook(hook_name,getattr(hooks,hook_name), 100)
 
     def set_hook(self,name,hook, priority = 50, str_key = None, re_key = None):
         """set_hook(name,hook) -> sets an internal IPython hook.
 
         IPython exposes some of its internal API as user-modifiable hooks.  By
         adding your function to one of these hooks, you can modify IPython's
         behavior to call at runtime your own routines."""
 
         # At some point in the future, this should validate the hook before it
         # accepts it.  Probably at least check that the hook takes the number
         # of args it's supposed to.
 
         f = types.MethodType(hook,self)
 
         # check if the hook is for strdispatcher first
         if str_key is not None:
             sdp = self.strdispatchers.get(name, StrDispatch())
             sdp.add_s(str_key, f, priority )
             self.strdispatchers[name] = sdp
             return
         if re_key is not None:
             sdp = self.strdispatchers.get(name, StrDispatch())
             sdp.add_re(re.compile(re_key), f, priority )
             self.strdispatchers[name] = sdp
             return
 
         dp = getattr(self.hooks, name, None)
         if name not in IPython.core.hooks.__all__:
             print "Warning! Hook '%s' is not one of %s" % \
                   (name, IPython.core.hooks.__all__ )
         if not dp:
             dp = IPython.core.hooks.CommandChainDispatcher()
 
         try:
             dp.add(f,priority)
         except AttributeError:
             # it was not commandchain, plain old func - replace
             dp = f
 
         setattr(self.hooks,name, dp)
 
     def register_post_execute(self, func):
         """Register a function for calling after code execution.
         """
         if not callable(func):
             raise ValueError('argument %s must be callable' % func)
         self._post_execute[func] = True
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Things related to the "main" module
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def new_main_mod(self,ns=None):
         """Return a new 'main' module object for user code execution.
         """
         main_mod = self._user_main_module
         init_fakemod_dict(main_mod,ns)
         return main_mod
 
     def cache_main_mod(self,ns,fname):
         """Cache a main module's namespace.
 
         When scripts are executed via %run, we must keep a reference to the
         namespace of their __main__ module (a FakeModule instance) around so
         that Python doesn't clear it, rendering objects defined therein
         useless.
 
         This method keeps said reference in a private dict, keyed by the
         absolute path of the module object (which corresponds to the script
         path).  This way, for multiple executions of the same script we only
         keep one copy of the namespace (the last one), thus preventing memory
         leaks from old references while allowing the objects from the last
         execution to be accessible.
 
         Note: we can not allow the actual FakeModule instances to be deleted,
         because of how Python tears down modules (it hard-sets all their
         references to None without regard for reference counts).  This method
         must therefore make a *copy* of the given namespace, to allow the
         original module's __dict__ to be cleared and reused.
 
 
         Parameters
         ----------
           ns : a namespace (a dict, typically)
 
           fname : str
             Filename associated with the namespace.
 
         Examples
         --------
 
         In [10]: import IPython
 
         In [11]: _ip.cache_main_mod(IPython.__dict__,IPython.__file__)
 
         In [12]: IPython.__file__ in _ip._main_ns_cache
         Out[12]: True
         """
         self._main_ns_cache[os.path.abspath(fname)] = ns.copy()
 
     def clear_main_mod_cache(self):
         """Clear the cache of main modules.
 
         Mainly for use by utilities like %reset.
 
         Examples
         --------
 
         In [15]: import IPython
 
         In [16]: _ip.cache_main_mod(IPython.__dict__,IPython.__file__)
 
         In [17]: len(_ip._main_ns_cache) > 0
         Out[17]: True
 
         In [18]: _ip.clear_main_mod_cache()
 
         In [19]: len(_ip._main_ns_cache) == 0
         Out[19]: True
         """
         self._main_ns_cache.clear()
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Things related to debugging
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def init_pdb(self):
         # Set calling of pdb on exceptions
         # self.call_pdb is a property
         self.call_pdb = self.pdb
 
     def _get_call_pdb(self):
         return self._call_pdb
 
     def _set_call_pdb(self,val):
 
         if val not in (0,1,False,True):
             raise ValueError,'new call_pdb value must be boolean'
 
         # store value in instance
         self._call_pdb = val
 
         # notify the actual exception handlers
         self.InteractiveTB.call_pdb = val
 
     call_pdb = property(_get_call_pdb,_set_call_pdb,None,
                         'Control auto-activation of pdb at exceptions')
 
     def debugger(self,force=False):
         """Call the pydb/pdb debugger.
 
         Keywords:
 
           - force(False): by default, this routine checks the instance call_pdb
           flag and does not actually invoke the debugger if the flag is false.
           The 'force' option forces the debugger to activate even if the flag
           is false.
         """
 
         if not (force or self.call_pdb):
             return
 
         if not hasattr(sys,'last_traceback'):
             error('No traceback has been produced, nothing to debug.')
             return
 
         # use pydb if available
         if debugger.has_pydb:
             from pydb import pm
         else:
             # fallback to our internal debugger
             pm = lambda : self.InteractiveTB.debugger(force=True)
 
         with self.readline_no_record:
             pm()
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Things related to IPython's various namespaces
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def init_create_namespaces(self, user_module=None, user_ns=None):
         # Create the namespace where the user will operate.  user_ns is
         # normally the only one used, and it is passed to the exec calls as
         # the locals argument.  But we do carry a user_global_ns namespace
         # given as the exec 'globals' argument,  This is useful in embedding
         # situations where the ipython shell opens in a context where the
         # distinction between locals and globals is meaningful.  For
         # non-embedded contexts, it is just the same object as the user_ns dict.
 
         # FIXME. For some strange reason, __builtins__ is showing up at user
         # level as a dict instead of a module. This is a manual fix, but I
         # should really track down where the problem is coming from. Alex
         # Schmolck reported this problem first.
 
         # A useful post by Alex Martelli on this topic:
         # Re: inconsistent value from __builtins__
         # Von: Alex Martelli <[e-mail]>
         # Datum: Freitag 01 Oktober 2004 04:45:34 nachmittags/abends
         # Gruppen: comp.lang.python
 
         # Michael Hohn <[e-mail]> wrote:
         # > >>> print type(builtin_check.get_global_binding('__builtins__'))
         # > <type 'dict'>
         # > >>> print type(__builtins__)
         # > <type 'module'>
         # > Is this difference in return value intentional?
 
         # Well, it's documented that '__builtins__' can be either a dictionary
         # or a module, and it's been that way for a long time. Whether it's
         # intentional (or sensible), I don't know. In any case, the idea is
         # that if you need to access the built-in namespace directly, you
         # should start with "import __builtin__" (note, no 's') which will
         # definitely give you a module. Yeah, it's somewhat confusing:-(.
 
         # These routines return a properly built module and dict as needed by
         # the rest of the code, and can also be used by extension writers to
         # generate properly initialized namespaces.
         self.user_module, self.user_ns = self.prepare_user_module(user_module, user_ns)
 
         # A record of hidden variables we have added to the user namespace, so
         # we can list later only variables defined in actual interactive use.
         self.user_ns_hidden = set()
 
         # Now that FakeModule produces a real module, we've run into a nasty
         # problem: after script execution (via %run), the module where the user
         # code ran is deleted.  Now that this object is a true module (needed
         # so docetst and other tools work correctly), the Python module
         # teardown mechanism runs over it, and sets to None every variable
         # present in that module.  Top-level references to objects from the
         # script survive, because the user_ns is updated with them.  However,
         # calling functions defined in the script that use other things from
         # the script will fail, because the function's closure had references
         # to the original objects, which are now all None.  So we must protect
         # these modules from deletion by keeping a cache.
         #
         # To avoid keeping stale modules around (we only need the one from the
         # last run), we use a dict keyed with the full path to the script, so
         # only the last version of the module is held in the cache.  Note,
         # however, that we must cache the module *namespace contents* (their
         # __dict__).  Because if we try to cache the actual modules, old ones
         # (uncached) could be destroyed while still holding references (such as
         # those held by GUI objects that tend to be long-lived)>
         #
         # The %reset command will flush this cache.  See the cache_main_mod()
         # and clear_main_mod_cache() methods for details on use.
 
         # This is the cache used for 'main' namespaces
         self._main_ns_cache = {}
         # And this is the single instance of FakeModule whose __dict__ we keep
         # copying and clearing for reuse on each %run
         self._user_main_module = FakeModule()
 
         # A table holding all the namespaces IPython deals with, so that
         # introspection facilities can search easily.
         self.ns_table = {'user_global':self.user_module.__dict__,
                          'user_local':user_ns,
                          'builtin':builtin_mod.__dict__
                          }
     
     @property
     def user_global_ns(self):
         return self.user_module.__dict__
 
     def prepare_user_module(self, user_module=None, user_ns=None):
         """Prepare the module and namespace in which user code will be run.
         
         When IPython is started normally, both parameters are None: a new module
         is created automatically, and its __dict__ used as the namespace.
         
         If only user_module is provided, its __dict__ is used as the namespace.
         If only user_ns is provided, a dummy module is created, and user_ns
         becomes the global namespace. If both are provided (as they may be
         when embedding), user_ns is the local namespace, and user_module
         provides the global namespace.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         user_module : module, optional
             The current user module in which IPython is being run. If None,
             a clean module will be created.
         user_ns : dict, optional
             A namespace in which to run interactive commands.
 
         Returns
         -------
         A tuple of user_module and user_ns, each properly initialised.
         """
         if user_module is None and user_ns is not None:
             user_ns.setdefault("__name__", "__main__")
             class DummyMod(object):
                 "A dummy module used for IPython's interactive namespace."
                 pass
             user_module = DummyMod()
             user_module.__dict__ = user_ns
             
         if user_module is None:
             user_module = types.ModuleType("__main__",
                 doc="Automatically created module for IPython interactive environment")
         
         # We must ensure that __builtin__ (without the final 's') is always
         # available and pointing to the __builtin__ *module*.  For more details:
         # http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-April/014068.html
         user_module.__dict__.setdefault('__builtin__', builtin_mod)
         user_module.__dict__.setdefault('__builtins__', builtin_mod)
         
         if user_ns is None:
             user_ns = user_module.__dict__
 
         return user_module, user_ns
 
     def init_sys_modules(self):
         # We need to insert into sys.modules something that looks like a
         # module but which accesses the IPython namespace, for shelve and
         # pickle to work interactively. Normally they rely on getting
         # everything out of __main__, but for embedding purposes each IPython
         # instance has its own private namespace, so we can't go shoving
         # everything into __main__.
 
         # note, however, that we should only do this for non-embedded
         # ipythons, which really mimic the __main__.__dict__ with their own
         # namespace.  Embedded instances, on the other hand, should not do
         # this because they need to manage the user local/global namespaces
         # only, but they live within a 'normal' __main__ (meaning, they
         # shouldn't overtake the execution environment of the script they're
         # embedded in).
 
         # This is overridden in the InteractiveShellEmbed subclass to a no-op.
         main_name = self.user_module.__name__
         sys.modules[main_name] = self.user_module
 
     def init_user_ns(self):
         """Initialize all user-visible namespaces to their minimum defaults.
 
         Certain history lists are also initialized here, as they effectively
         act as user namespaces.
 
         Notes
         -----
         All data structures here are only filled in, they are NOT reset by this
         method.  If they were not empty before, data will simply be added to
         therm.
         """
         # This function works in two parts: first we put a few things in
         # user_ns, and we sync that contents into user_ns_hidden so that these
         # initial variables aren't shown by %who.  After the sync, we add the
         # rest of what we *do* want the user to see with %who even on a new
         # session (probably nothing, so theye really only see their own stuff)
 
         # The user dict must *always* have a __builtin__ reference to the
         # Python standard __builtin__ namespace,  which must be imported.
         # This is so that certain operations in prompt evaluation can be
         # reliably executed with builtins.  Note that we can NOT use
         # __builtins__ (note the 's'),  because that can either be a dict or a
         # module, and can even mutate at runtime, depending on the context
         # (Python makes no guarantees on it).  In contrast, __builtin__ is
         # always a module object, though it must be explicitly imported.
 
         # For more details:
         # http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-April/014068.html
         ns = dict()
         
         # Put 'help' in the user namespace
         try:
             from site import _Helper
             ns['help'] = _Helper()
         except ImportError:
             warn('help() not available - check site.py')
 
         # make global variables for user access to the histories
         ns['_ih'] = self.history_manager.input_hist_parsed
         ns['_oh'] = self.history_manager.output_hist
         ns['_dh'] = self.history_manager.dir_hist
 
         ns['_sh'] = shadowns
 
         # user aliases to input and output histories.  These shouldn't show up
         # in %who, as they can have very large reprs.
         ns['In']  = self.history_manager.input_hist_parsed
         ns['Out'] = self.history_manager.output_hist
 
         # Store myself as the public api!!!
         ns['get_ipython'] = self.get_ipython
         
         ns['exit'] = self.exiter
         ns['quit'] = self.exiter
 
         # Sync what we've added so far to user_ns_hidden so these aren't seen
         # by %who
         self.user_ns_hidden.update(ns)
 
         # Anything put into ns now would show up in %who.  Think twice before
         # putting anything here, as we really want %who to show the user their
         # stuff, not our variables.
 
         # Finally, update the real user's namespace
         self.user_ns.update(ns)
     
     @property
     def all_ns_refs(self):
         """Get a list of references to all the namespace dictionaries in which
         IPython might store a user-created object.
         
         Note that this does not include the displayhook, which also caches
         objects from the output."""
         return [self.user_ns, self.user_global_ns,
                 self._user_main_module.__dict__] + self._main_ns_cache.values()
 
     def reset(self, new_session=True):
         """Clear all internal namespaces, and attempt to release references to
         user objects.
 
         If new_session is True, a new history session will be opened.
         """
         # Clear histories
         self.history_manager.reset(new_session)
         # Reset counter used to index all histories
         if new_session:
             self.execution_count = 1
 
         # Flush cached output items
         if self.displayhook.do_full_cache:
             self.displayhook.flush()
 
         # The main execution namespaces must be cleared very carefully,
         # skipping the deletion of the builtin-related keys, because doing so
         # would cause errors in many object's __del__ methods.
         if self.user_ns is not self.user_global_ns:
             self.user_ns.clear()
         ns = self.user_global_ns
         drop_keys = set(ns.keys())
         drop_keys.discard('__builtin__')
         drop_keys.discard('__builtins__')
         drop_keys.discard('__name__')
         for k in drop_keys:
             del ns[k]
         
         self.user_ns_hidden.clear()
         
         # Restore the user namespaces to minimal usability
         self.init_user_ns()
 
         # Restore the default and user aliases
         self.alias_manager.clear_aliases()
         self.alias_manager.init_aliases()
 
         # Flush the private list of module references kept for script
         # execution protection
         self.clear_main_mod_cache()
 
         # Clear out the namespace from the last %run
         self.new_main_mod()
 
     def del_var(self, varname, by_name=False):
         """Delete a variable from the various namespaces, so that, as
         far as possible, we're not keeping any hidden references to it.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         varname : str
             The name of the variable to delete.
         by_name : bool
             If True, delete variables with the given name in each
             namespace. If False (default), find the variable in the user
             namespace, and delete references to it.
         """
         if varname in ('__builtin__', '__builtins__'):
             raise ValueError("Refusing to delete %s" % varname)
 
         ns_refs = self.all_ns_refs
         
         if by_name:                    # Delete by name
             for ns in ns_refs:
                 try:
                     del ns[varname]
                 except KeyError:
                     pass
         else:                         # Delete by object
             try:
                 obj = self.user_ns[varname]
             except KeyError:
                 raise NameError("name '%s' is not defined" % varname)
             # Also check in output history
             ns_refs.append(self.history_manager.output_hist)
             for ns in ns_refs:
                 to_delete = [n for n, o in ns.iteritems() if o is obj]
                 for name in to_delete:
                     del ns[name]
 
             # displayhook keeps extra references, but not in a dictionary
             for name in ('_', '__', '___'):
                 if getattr(self.displayhook, name) is obj:
                     setattr(self.displayhook, name, None)
 
     def reset_selective(self, regex=None):
         """Clear selective variables from internal namespaces based on a
         specified regular expression.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         regex : string or compiled pattern, optional
             A regular expression pattern that will be used in searching
             variable names in the users namespaces.
         """
         if regex is not None:
             try:
                 m = re.compile(regex)
             except TypeError:
                 raise TypeError('regex must be a string or compiled pattern')
             # Search for keys in each namespace that match the given regex
             # If a match is found, delete the key/value pair.
             for ns in self.all_ns_refs:
                 for var in ns:
                     if m.search(var):
                         del ns[var]
 
     def push(self, variables, interactive=True):
         """Inject a group of variables into the IPython user namespace.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         variables : dict, str or list/tuple of str
             The variables to inject into the user's namespace.  If a dict, a
             simple update is done.  If a str, the string is assumed to have
             variable names separated by spaces.  A list/tuple of str can also
             be used to give the variable names.  If just the variable names are
             give (list/tuple/str) then the variable values looked up in the
             callers frame.
         interactive : bool
             If True (default), the variables will be listed with the ``who``
             magic.
         """
         vdict = None
 
         # We need a dict of name/value pairs to do namespace updates.
         if isinstance(variables, dict):
             vdict = variables
         elif isinstance(variables, (basestring, list, tuple)):
             if isinstance(variables, basestring):
                 vlist = variables.split()
             else:
                 vlist = variables
             vdict = {}
             cf = sys._getframe(1)
             for name in vlist:
                 try:
                     vdict[name] = eval(name, cf.f_globals, cf.f_locals)
                 except:
                     print ('Could not get variable %s from %s' %
                            (name,cf.f_code.co_name))
         else:
             raise ValueError('variables must be a dict/str/list/tuple')
 
         # Propagate variables to user namespace
         self.user_ns.update(vdict)
 
         # And configure interactive visibility
         user_ns_hidden = self.user_ns_hidden
         if interactive:
             user_ns_hidden.difference_update(vdict)
         else:
             user_ns_hidden.update(vdict)
     
     def drop_by_id(self, variables):
         """Remove a dict of variables from the user namespace, if they are the
         same as the values in the dictionary.
         
         This is intended for use by extensions: variables that they've added can
         be taken back out if they are unloaded, without removing any that the
         user has overwritten.
         
         Parameters
         ----------
         variables : dict
           A dictionary mapping object names (as strings) to the objects.
         """
         for name, obj in variables.iteritems():
             if name in self.user_ns and self.user_ns[name] is obj:
                 del self.user_ns[name]
                 self.user_ns_hidden.discard(name)
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Things related to object introspection
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def _ofind(self, oname, namespaces=None):
         """Find an object in the available namespaces.
 
         self._ofind(oname) -> dict with keys: found,obj,ospace,ismagic
 
         Has special code to detect magic functions.
         """
         oname = oname.strip()
         #print '1- oname: <%r>' % oname  # dbg
         if not py3compat.isidentifier(oname.lstrip(ESC_MAGIC), dotted=True):
             return dict(found=False)
 
         alias_ns = None
         if namespaces is None:
             # Namespaces to search in:
             # Put them in a list. The order is important so that we
             # find things in the same order that Python finds them.
             namespaces = [ ('Interactive', self.user_ns),
                            ('Interactive (global)', self.user_global_ns),
                            ('Python builtin', builtin_mod.__dict__),
                            ('Alias', self.alias_manager.alias_table),
                            ]
             alias_ns = self.alias_manager.alias_table
 
         # initialize results to 'null'
         found = False; obj = None;  ospace = None;  ds = None;
         ismagic = False; isalias = False; parent = None
 
         # We need to special-case 'print', which as of python2.6 registers as a
         # function but should only be treated as one if print_function was
         # loaded with a future import.  In this case, just bail.
         if (oname == 'print' and not py3compat.PY3 and not \
             (self.compile.compiler_flags & __future__.CO_FUTURE_PRINT_FUNCTION)):
             return {'found':found, 'obj':obj, 'namespace':ospace,
                     'ismagic':ismagic, 'isalias':isalias, 'parent':parent}
 
         # Look for the given name by splitting it in parts.  If the head is
         # found, then we look for all the remaining parts as members, and only
         # declare success if we can find them all.
         oname_parts = oname.split('.')
         oname_head, oname_rest = oname_parts[0],oname_parts[1:]
         for nsname,ns in namespaces:
             try:
                 obj = ns[oname_head]
             except KeyError:
                 continue
             else:
                 #print 'oname_rest:', oname_rest  # dbg
                 for part in oname_rest:
                     try:
                         parent = obj
                         obj = getattr(obj,part)
                     except:
                         # Blanket except b/c some badly implemented objects
                         # allow __getattr__ to raise exceptions other than
                         # AttributeError, which then crashes IPython.
                         break
                 else:
                     # If we finish the for loop (no break), we got all members
                     found = True
                     ospace = nsname
                     if ns == alias_ns:
                         isalias = True
                     break  # namespace loop
 
         # Try to see if it's magic
         if not found:
             if oname.startswith(ESC_MAGIC):
                 oname = oname[1:]
             obj = getattr(self,'magic_'+oname,None)
             if obj is not None:
                 found = True
                 ospace = 'IPython internal'
                 ismagic = True
 
         # Last try: special-case some literals like '', [], {}, etc:
         if not found and oname_head in ["''",'""','[]','{}','()']:
             obj = eval(oname_head)
             found = True
             ospace = 'Interactive'
 
         return {'found':found, 'obj':obj, 'namespace':ospace,
                 'ismagic':ismagic, 'isalias':isalias, 'parent':parent}
 
     def _ofind_property(self, oname, info):
         """Second part of object finding, to look for property details."""
         if info.found:
             # Get the docstring of the class property if it exists.
             path = oname.split('.')
             root = '.'.join(path[:-1])
             if info.parent is not None:
                 try:
                     target = getattr(info.parent, '__class__')
                     # The object belongs to a class instance.
                     try:
                         target = getattr(target, path[-1])
                         # The class defines the object.
                         if isinstance(target, property):
                             oname = root + '.__class__.' + path[-1]
                             info = Struct(self._ofind(oname))
                     except AttributeError: pass
                 except AttributeError: pass
 
         # We return either the new info or the unmodified input if the object
         # hadn't been found
         return info
 
     def _object_find(self, oname, namespaces=None):
         """Find an object and return a struct with info about it."""
         inf = Struct(self._ofind(oname, namespaces))
         return Struct(self._ofind_property(oname, inf))
 
     def _inspect(self, meth, oname, namespaces=None, **kw):
         """Generic interface to the inspector system.
 
         This function is meant to be called by pdef, pdoc & friends."""
         info = self._object_find(oname)
         if info.found:
             pmethod = getattr(self.inspector, meth)
             formatter = format_screen if info.ismagic else None
             if meth == 'pdoc':
                 pmethod(info.obj, oname, formatter)
             elif meth == 'pinfo':
                 pmethod(info.obj, oname, formatter, info, **kw)
             else:
                 pmethod(info.obj, oname)
         else:
             print 'Object `%s` not found.' % oname
             return 'not found'  # so callers can take other action
 
     def object_inspect(self, oname):
         with self.builtin_trap:
             info = self._object_find(oname)
             if info.found:
                 return self.inspector.info(info.obj, oname, info=info)
             else:
                 return oinspect.object_info(name=oname, found=False)
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Things related to history management
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def init_history(self):
         """Sets up the command history, and starts regular autosaves."""
         self.history_manager = HistoryManager(shell=self, config=self.config)
         self.configurables.append(self.history_manager)
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Things related to exception handling and tracebacks (not debugging)
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def init_traceback_handlers(self, custom_exceptions):
         # Syntax error handler.
         self.SyntaxTB = ultratb.SyntaxTB(color_scheme='NoColor')
 
         # The interactive one is initialized with an offset, meaning we always
         # want to remove the topmost item in the traceback, which is our own
         # internal code. Valid modes: ['Plain','Context','Verbose']
         self.InteractiveTB = ultratb.AutoFormattedTB(mode = 'Plain',
                                                      color_scheme='NoColor',
                                                      tb_offset = 1,
                                    check_cache=self.compile.check_cache)
 
         # The instance will store a pointer to the system-wide exception hook,
         # so that runtime code (such as magics) can access it.  This is because
         # during the read-eval loop, it may get temporarily overwritten.
         self.sys_excepthook = sys.excepthook
 
         # and add any custom exception handlers the user may have specified
         self.set_custom_exc(*custom_exceptions)
 
         # Set the exception mode
         self.InteractiveTB.set_mode(mode=self.xmode)
 
     def set_custom_exc(self, exc_tuple, handler):
         """set_custom_exc(exc_tuple,handler)
 
         Set a custom exception handler, which will be called if any of the
         exceptions in exc_tuple occur in the mainloop (specifically, in the
         run_code() method).
 
         Parameters
         ----------
 
         exc_tuple : tuple of exception classes
             A *tuple* of exception classes, for which to call the defined
             handler.  It is very important that you use a tuple, and NOT A
             LIST here, because of the way Python's except statement works.  If
             you only want to trap a single exception, use a singleton tuple::
 
                 exc_tuple == (MyCustomException,)
 
         handler : callable
             handler must have the following signature::
 
                 def my_handler(self, etype, value, tb, tb_offset=None):
                     ...
                     return structured_traceback
 
             Your handler must return a structured traceback (a list of strings),
             or None.
 
             This will be made into an instance method (via types.MethodType)
             of IPython itself, and it will be called if any of the exceptions
             listed in the exc_tuple are caught. If the handler is None, an
             internal basic one is used, which just prints basic info.
 
             To protect IPython from crashes, if your handler ever raises an
             exception or returns an invalid result, it will be immediately
             disabled.
 
         WARNING: by putting in your own exception handler into IPython's main
         execution loop, you run a very good chance of nasty crashes.  This
         facility should only be used if you really know what you are doing."""
 
         assert type(exc_tuple)==type(()) , \
                "The custom exceptions must be given AS A TUPLE."
 
         def dummy_handler(self,etype,value,tb,tb_offset=None):
             print '*** Simple custom exception handler ***'
             print 'Exception type :',etype
             print 'Exception value:',value
             print 'Traceback      :',tb
             #print 'Source code    :','\n'.join(self.buffer)
         
         def validate_stb(stb):
             """validate structured traceback return type
             
             return type of CustomTB *should* be a list of strings, but allow
             single strings or None, which are harmless.
             
             This function will *always* return a list of strings,
             and will raise a TypeError if stb is inappropriate.
             """
             msg = "CustomTB must return list of strings, not %r" % stb
             if stb is None:
                 return []
             elif isinstance(stb, basestring):
                 return [stb]
             elif not isinstance(stb, list):
                 raise TypeError(msg)
             # it's a list
             for line in stb:
                 # check every element
                 if not isinstance(line, basestring):
                     raise TypeError(msg)
             return stb
 
         if handler is None:
             wrapped = dummy_handler
         else:
             def wrapped(self,etype,value,tb,tb_offset=None):
                 """wrap CustomTB handler, to protect IPython from user code
                 
                 This makes it harder (but not impossible) for custom exception
                 handlers to crash IPython.
                 """
                 try:
                     stb = handler(self,etype,value,tb,tb_offset=tb_offset)
                     return validate_stb(stb)
                 except:
                     # clear custom handler immediately
                     self.set_custom_exc((), None)
                     print >> io.stderr, "Custom TB Handler failed, unregistering"
                     # show the exception in handler first
                     stb = self.InteractiveTB.structured_traceback(*sys.exc_info())
                     print >> io.stdout, self.InteractiveTB.stb2text(stb)
                     print >> io.stdout, "The original exception:"
                     stb = self.InteractiveTB.structured_traceback(
                                             (etype,value,tb), tb_offset=tb_offset
                     )
                 return stb
 
         self.CustomTB = types.MethodType(wrapped,self)
         self.custom_exceptions = exc_tuple
 
     def excepthook(self, etype, value, tb):
       """One more defense for GUI apps that call sys.excepthook.
 
       GUI frameworks like wxPython trap exceptions and call
       sys.excepthook themselves.  I guess this is a feature that
       enables them to keep running after exceptions that would
       otherwise kill their mainloop. This is a bother for IPython
       which excepts to catch all of the program exceptions with a try:
       except: statement.
 
       Normally, IPython sets sys.excepthook to a CrashHandler instance, so if
       any app directly invokes sys.excepthook, it will look to the user like
       IPython crashed.  In order to work around this, we can disable the
       CrashHandler and replace it with this excepthook instead, which prints a
       regular traceback using our InteractiveTB.  In this fashion, apps which
       call sys.excepthook will generate a regular-looking exception from
       IPython, and the CrashHandler will only be triggered by real IPython
       crashes.
 
       This hook should be used sparingly, only in places which are not likely
       to be true IPython errors.
       """
       self.showtraceback((etype,value,tb),tb_offset=0)
 
     def showtraceback(self,exc_tuple = None,filename=None,tb_offset=None,
                       exception_only=False):
         """Display the exception that just occurred.
 
         If nothing is known about the exception, this is the method which
         should be used throughout the code for presenting user tracebacks,
         rather than directly invoking the InteractiveTB object.
 
         A specific showsyntaxerror() also exists, but this method can take
         care of calling it if needed, so unless you are explicitly catching a
         SyntaxError exception, don't try to analyze the stack manually and
         simply call this method."""
 
         try:
             if exc_tuple is None:
                 etype, value, tb = sys.exc_info()
             else:
                 etype, value, tb = exc_tuple
 
             if etype is None:
                 if hasattr(sys, 'last_type'):
                     etype, value, tb = sys.last_type, sys.last_value, \
                                        sys.last_traceback
                 else:
                     self.write_err('No traceback available to show.\n')
                     return
 
             if etype is SyntaxError:
                 # Though this won't be called by syntax errors in the input
                 # line, there may be SyntaxError cases with imported code.
                 self.showsyntaxerror(filename)
             elif etype is UsageError:
                 self.write_err("UsageError: %s" % value)
             else:
                 # WARNING: these variables are somewhat deprecated and not
                 # necessarily safe to use in a threaded environment, but tools
                 # like pdb depend on their existence, so let's set them.  If we
                 # find problems in the field, we'll need to revisit their use.
                 sys.last_type = etype
                 sys.last_value = value
                 sys.last_traceback = tb
                 if etype in self.custom_exceptions:
                     stb = self.CustomTB(etype, value, tb, tb_offset)
                 else:
                     if exception_only:
                         stb = ['An exception has occurred, use %tb to see '
                                'the full traceback.\n']
                         stb.extend(self.InteractiveTB.get_exception_only(etype,
                                                                          value))
                     else:
                         stb = self.InteractiveTB.structured_traceback(etype,
                                                 value, tb, tb_offset=tb_offset)
 
                         self._showtraceback(etype, value, stb)
                         if self.call_pdb:
                             # drop into debugger
                             self.debugger(force=True)
                         return
 
                 # Actually show the traceback
                 self._showtraceback(etype, value, stb)
 
         except KeyboardInterrupt:
             self.write_err("\nKeyboardInterrupt\n")
 
     def _showtraceback(self, etype, evalue, stb):
         """Actually show a traceback.
 
         Subclasses may override this method to put the traceback on a different
         place, like a side channel.
         """
         print >> io.stdout, self.InteractiveTB.stb2text(stb)
 
     def showsyntaxerror(self, filename=None):
         """Display the syntax error that just occurred.
 
         This doesn't display a stack trace because there isn't one.
 
         If a filename is given, it is stuffed in the exception instead
         of what was there before (because Python's parser always uses
         "<string>" when reading from a string).
         """
         etype, value, last_traceback = sys.exc_info()
 
         # See note about these variables in showtraceback() above
         sys.last_type = etype
         sys.last_value = value
         sys.last_traceback = last_traceback
 
         if filename and etype is SyntaxError:
             # Work hard to stuff the correct filename in the exception
             try:
                 msg, (dummy_filename, lineno, offset, line) = value
             except:
                 # Not the format we expect; leave it alone
                 pass
             else:
                 # Stuff in the right filename
                 try:
                     # Assume SyntaxError is a class exception
                     value = SyntaxError(msg, (filename, lineno, offset, line))
                 except:
                     # If that failed, assume SyntaxError is a string
                     value = msg, (filename, lineno, offset, line)
         stb = self.SyntaxTB.structured_traceback(etype, value, [])
         self._showtraceback(etype, value, stb)
 
     # This is overridden in TerminalInteractiveShell to show a message about
     # the %paste magic.
     def showindentationerror(self):
         """Called by run_cell when there's an IndentationError in code entered
         at the prompt.
 
         This is overridden in TerminalInteractiveShell to show a message about
         the %paste magic."""
         self.showsyntaxerror()
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Things related to readline
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def init_readline(self):
         """Command history completion/saving/reloading."""
 
         if self.readline_use:
             import IPython.utils.rlineimpl as readline
 
         self.rl_next_input = None
         self.rl_do_indent = False
 
         if not self.readline_use or not readline.have_readline:
             self.has_readline = False
             self.readline = None
             # Set a number of methods that depend on readline to be no-op
             self.readline_no_record = no_op_context
             self.set_readline_completer = no_op
             self.set_custom_completer = no_op
             self.set_completer_frame = no_op
             if self.readline_use:
                 warn('Readline services not available or not loaded.')
         else:
             self.has_readline = True
             self.readline = readline
             sys.modules['readline'] = readline
 
             # Platform-specific configuration
             if os.name == 'nt':
                 # FIXME - check with Frederick to see if we can harmonize
                 # naming conventions with pyreadline to avoid this
                 # platform-dependent check
                 self.readline_startup_hook = readline.set_pre_input_hook
             else:
                 self.readline_startup_hook = readline.set_startup_hook
 
             # Load user's initrc file (readline config)
             # Or if libedit is used, load editrc.
             inputrc_name = os.environ.get('INPUTRC')
             if inputrc_name is None:
                 inputrc_name = '.inputrc'
                 if readline.uses_libedit:
                     inputrc_name = '.editrc'
                 inputrc_name = os.path.join(self.home_dir, inputrc_name)
             if os.path.isfile(inputrc_name):
                 try:
                     readline.read_init_file(inputrc_name)
                 except:
                     warn('Problems reading readline initialization file <%s>'
                          % inputrc_name)
 
             # Configure readline according to user's prefs
             # This is only done if GNU readline is being used.  If libedit
             # is being used (as on Leopard) the readline config is
             # not run as the syntax for libedit is different.
             if not readline.uses_libedit:
                 for rlcommand in self.readline_parse_and_bind:
                     #print "loading rl:",rlcommand  # dbg
                     readline.parse_and_bind(rlcommand)
 
             # Remove some chars from the delimiters list.  If we encounter
             # unicode chars, discard them.
             delims = readline.get_completer_delims()
             if not py3compat.PY3:
                 delims = delims.encode("ascii", "ignore")
             for d in self.readline_remove_delims:
                 delims = delims.replace(d, "")
             delims = delims.replace(ESC_MAGIC, '')
             readline.set_completer_delims(delims)
             # otherwise we end up with a monster history after a while:
             readline.set_history_length(self.history_length)
 
             self.refill_readline_hist()
             self.readline_no_record = ReadlineNoRecord(self)
 
         # Configure auto-indent for all platforms
         self.set_autoindent(self.autoindent)
 
     def refill_readline_hist(self):
         # Load the last 1000 lines from history
         self.readline.clear_history()
         stdin_encoding = sys.stdin.encoding or "utf-8"
         last_cell = u""
         for _, _, cell in self.history_manager.get_tail(1000,
                                                         include_latest=True):
             # Ignore blank lines and consecutive duplicates
             cell = cell.rstrip()
             if cell and (cell != last_cell):
                 if self.multiline_history:
                       self.readline.add_history(py3compat.unicode_to_str(cell,
                                                                 stdin_encoding))
                 else:
                     for line in cell.splitlines():
                         self.readline.add_history(py3compat.unicode_to_str(line,
                                                                 stdin_encoding))
                 last_cell = cell
 
     def set_next_input(self, s):
         """ Sets the 'default' input string for the next command line.
 
         Requires readline.
 
         Example:
 
         [D:\ipython]|1> _ip.set_next_input("Hello Word")
         [D:\ipython]|2> Hello Word_  # cursor is here
         """
         self.rl_next_input = py3compat.cast_bytes_py2(s)
 
     # Maybe move this to the terminal subclass?
     def pre_readline(self):
         """readline hook to be used at the start of each line.
 
         Currently it handles auto-indent only."""
 
         if self.rl_do_indent:
             self.readline.insert_text(self._indent_current_str())
         if self.rl_next_input is not None:
             self.readline.insert_text(self.rl_next_input)
             self.rl_next_input = None
 
     def _indent_current_str(self):
         """return the current level of indentation as a string"""
         return self.input_splitter.indent_spaces * ' '
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Things related to text completion
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def init_completer(self):
         """Initialize the completion machinery.
 
         This creates completion machinery that can be used by client code,
         either interactively in-process (typically triggered by the readline
         library), programatically (such as in test suites) or out-of-prcess
         (typically over the network by remote frontends).
         """
         from IPython.core.completer import IPCompleter
         from IPython.core.completerlib import (module_completer,
                                                magic_run_completer, cd_completer)
 
         self.Completer = IPCompleter(shell=self,
                                      namespace=self.user_ns,
                                      global_namespace=self.user_global_ns,
                                      alias_table=self.alias_manager.alias_table,
                                      use_readline=self.has_readline,
                                      config=self.config,
                                      )
         self.configurables.append(self.Completer)
 
         # Add custom completers to the basic ones built into IPCompleter
         sdisp = self.strdispatchers.get('complete_command', StrDispatch())
         self.strdispatchers['complete_command'] = sdisp
         self.Completer.custom_completers = sdisp
 
         self.set_hook('complete_command', module_completer, str_key = 'import')
         self.set_hook('complete_command', module_completer, str_key = 'from')
         self.set_hook('complete_command', magic_run_completer, str_key = '%run')
         self.set_hook('complete_command', cd_completer, str_key = '%cd')
 
         # Only configure readline if we truly are using readline.  IPython can
         # do tab-completion over the network, in GUIs, etc, where readline
         # itself may be absent
         if self.has_readline:
             self.set_readline_completer()
 
     def complete(self, text, line=None, cursor_pos=None):
         """Return the completed text and a list of completions.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
 
            text : string
              A string of text to be completed on.  It can be given as empty and
              instead a line/position pair are given.  In this case, the
              completer itself will split the line like readline does.
 
            line : string, optional
              The complete line that text is part of.
 
            cursor_pos : int, optional
              The position of the cursor on the input line.
 
         Returns
         -------
           text : string
             The actual text that was completed.
 
           matches : list
             A sorted list with all possible completions.
 
         The optional arguments allow the completion to take more context into
         account, and are part of the low-level completion API.
 
         This is a wrapper around the completion mechanism, similar to what
         readline does at the command line when the TAB key is hit.  By
         exposing it as a method, it can be used by other non-readline
         environments (such as GUIs) for text completion.
 
         Simple usage example:
 
         In [1]: x = 'hello'
 
         In [2]: _ip.complete('x.l')
         Out[2]: ('x.l', ['x.ljust', 'x.lower', 'x.lstrip'])
         """
 
         # Inject names into __builtin__ so we can complete on the added names.
         with self.builtin_trap:
             return self.Completer.complete(text, line, cursor_pos)
 
     def set_custom_completer(self, completer, pos=0):
         """Adds a new custom completer function.
 
         The position argument (defaults to 0) is the index in the completers
         list where you want the completer to be inserted."""
 
         newcomp = types.MethodType(completer,self.Completer)
         self.Completer.matchers.insert(pos,newcomp)
 
     def set_readline_completer(self):
         """Reset readline's completer to be our own."""
         self.readline.set_completer(self.Completer.rlcomplete)
 
     def set_completer_frame(self, frame=None):
         """Set the frame of the completer."""
         if frame:
             self.Completer.namespace = frame.f_locals
             self.Completer.global_namespace = frame.f_globals
         else:
             self.Completer.namespace = self.user_ns
             self.Completer.global_namespace = self.user_global_ns
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Things related to magics
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def init_magics(self):
         # FIXME: Move the color initialization to the DisplayHook, which
         # should be split into a prompt manager and displayhook. We probably
         # even need a centralize colors management object.
         self.magic_colors(self.colors)
         # History was moved to a separate module
         from . import history
         history.init_ipython(self)
 
     def magic(self, arg_s, next_input=None):
         """Call a magic function by name.
 
         Input: a string containing the name of the magic function to call and
         any additional arguments to be passed to the magic.
 
         magic('name -opt foo bar') is equivalent to typing at the ipython
         prompt:
 
         In[1]: %name -opt foo bar
 
         To call a magic without arguments, simply use magic('name').
 
         This provides a proper Python function to call IPython's magics in any
         valid Python code you can type at the interpreter, including loops and
         compound statements.
         """
         # Allow setting the next input - this is used if the user does `a=abs?`.
         # We do this first so that magic functions can override it.
         if next_input:
             self.set_next_input(next_input)
 
         args = arg_s.split(' ',1)
         magic_name = args[0]
         magic_name = magic_name.lstrip(prefilter.ESC_MAGIC)
 
         try:
             magic_args = args[1]
         except IndexError:
             magic_args = ''
         fn = getattr(self,'magic_'+magic_name,None)
         if fn is None:
             error("Magic function `%s` not found." % magic_name)
         else:
             magic_args = self.var_expand(magic_args,1)
             # Grab local namespace if we need it:
             if getattr(fn, "needs_local_scope", False):
                 self._magic_locals = sys._getframe(1).f_locals
             with self.builtin_trap:
                 result = fn(magic_args)
             # Ensure we're not keeping object references around:
             self._magic_locals = {}
             return result
 
     def define_magic(self, magicname, func):
         """Expose own function as magic function for ipython
         
         Example::
 
           def foo_impl(self,parameter_s=''):
               'My very own magic!. (Use docstrings, IPython reads them).'
               print 'Magic function. Passed parameter is between < >:'
               print '<%s>' % parameter_s
               print 'The self object is:', self
 
           ip.define_magic('foo',foo_impl)
         """
         im = types.MethodType(func,self)
         old = getattr(self, "magic_" + magicname, None)
         setattr(self, "magic_" + magicname, im)
         return old
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Things related to macros
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def define_macro(self, name, themacro):
         """Define a new macro
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         name : str
             The name of the macro.
         themacro : str or Macro
             The action to do upon invoking the macro.  If a string, a new
             Macro object is created by passing the string to it.
         """
 
         from IPython.core import macro
 
         if isinstance(themacro, basestring):
             themacro = macro.Macro(themacro)
         if not isinstance(themacro, macro.Macro):
             raise ValueError('A macro must be a string or a Macro instance.')
         self.user_ns[name] = themacro
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Things related to the running of system commands
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def system_piped(self, cmd):
         """Call the given cmd in a subprocess, piping stdout/err
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         cmd : str
           Command to execute (can not end in '&', as background processes are
           not supported.  Should not be a command that expects input
           other than simple text.
         """
         if cmd.rstrip().endswith('&'):
             # this is *far* from a rigorous test
             # We do not support backgrounding processes because we either use
             # pexpect or pipes to read from.  Users can always just call
             # os.system() or use ip.system=ip.system_raw
             # if they really want a background process.
             raise OSError("Background processes not supported.")
 
         # we explicitly do NOT return the subprocess status code, because
         # a non-None value would trigger :func:`sys.displayhook` calls.
         # Instead, we store the exit_code in user_ns.
         self.user_ns['_exit_code'] = system(self.var_expand(cmd, depth=2))
 
     def system_raw(self, cmd):
         """Call the given cmd in a subprocess using os.system
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         cmd : str
           Command to execute.
         """
         cmd = self.var_expand(cmd, depth=2)
         # protect os.system from UNC paths on Windows, which it can't handle:
         if sys.platform == 'win32':
             from IPython.utils._process_win32 import AvoidUNCPath
             with AvoidUNCPath() as path:
                 if path is not None:
                     cmd = '"pushd %s &&"%s' % (path, cmd)
                 cmd = py3compat.unicode_to_str(cmd)
                 ec = os.system(cmd)
         else:
             cmd = py3compat.unicode_to_str(cmd)
             ec = os.system(cmd)
         
         # We explicitly do NOT return the subprocess status code, because
         # a non-None value would trigger :func:`sys.displayhook` calls.
         # Instead, we store the exit_code in user_ns.
         self.user_ns['_exit_code'] = ec
 
     # use piped system by default, because it is better behaved
     system = system_piped
 
     def getoutput(self, cmd, split=True):
         """Get output (possibly including stderr) from a subprocess.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         cmd : str
           Command to execute (can not end in '&', as background processes are
           not supported.
         split : bool, optional
 
           If True, split the output into an IPython SList.  Otherwise, an
           IPython LSString is returned.  These are objects similar to normal
           lists and strings, with a few convenience attributes for easier
           manipulation of line-based output.  You can use '?' on them for
           details.
           """
         if cmd.rstrip().endswith('&'):
             # this is *far* from a rigorous test
             raise OSError("Background processes not supported.")
         out = getoutput(self.var_expand(cmd, depth=2))
         if split:
             out = SList(out.splitlines())
         else:
             out = LSString(out)
         return out
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Things related to aliases
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def init_alias(self):
         self.alias_manager = AliasManager(shell=self, config=self.config)
         self.configurables.append(self.alias_manager)
         self.ns_table['alias'] = self.alias_manager.alias_table,
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Things related to extensions and plugins
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def init_extension_manager(self):
         self.extension_manager = ExtensionManager(shell=self, config=self.config)
         self.configurables.append(self.extension_manager)
 
     def init_plugin_manager(self):
         self.plugin_manager = PluginManager(config=self.config)
         self.configurables.append(self.plugin_manager)
         
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Things related to payloads
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def init_payload(self):
         self.payload_manager = PayloadManager(config=self.config)
         self.configurables.append(self.payload_manager)
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Things related to the prefilter
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def init_prefilter(self):
         self.prefilter_manager = PrefilterManager(shell=self, config=self.config)
         self.configurables.append(self.prefilter_manager)
         # Ultimately this will be refactored in the new interpreter code, but
         # for now, we should expose the main prefilter method (there's legacy
         # code out there that may rely on this).
         self.prefilter = self.prefilter_manager.prefilter_lines
 
     def auto_rewrite_input(self, cmd):
         """Print to the screen the rewritten form of the user's command.
 
         This shows visual feedback by rewriting input lines that cause
         automatic calling to kick in, like::
 
           /f x
 
         into::
 
           ------> f(x)
 
         after the user's input prompt.  This helps the user understand that the
         input line was transformed automatically by IPython.
         """
         rw = self.prompt_manager.render('rewrite') + cmd
 
         try:
             # plain ascii works better w/ pyreadline, on some machines, so
             # we use it and only print uncolored rewrite if we have unicode
             rw = str(rw)
             print >> io.stdout, rw
         except UnicodeEncodeError:
             print "------> " + cmd
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Things related to extracting values/expressions from kernel and user_ns
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def _simple_error(self):
         etype, value = sys.exc_info()[:2]
         return u'[ERROR] {e.__name__}: {v}'.format(e=etype, v=value)
 
     def user_variables(self, names):
         """Get a list of variable names from the user's namespace.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         names : list of strings
           A list of names of variables to be read from the user namespace.
 
         Returns
         -------
         A dict, keyed by the input names and with the repr() of each value.
         """
         out = {}
         user_ns = self.user_ns
         for varname in names:
             try:
                 value = repr(user_ns[varname])
             except:
                 value = self._simple_error()
             out[varname] = value
         return out
 
     def user_expressions(self, expressions):
         """Evaluate a dict of expressions in the user's namespace.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         expressions : dict
           A dict with string keys and string values.  The expression values
           should be valid Python expressions, each of which will be evaluated
           in the user namespace.
 
         Returns
         -------
         A dict, keyed like the input expressions dict, with the repr() of each
         value.
         """
         out = {}
         user_ns = self.user_ns
         global_ns = self.user_global_ns
         for key, expr in expressions.iteritems():
             try:
                 value = repr(eval(expr, global_ns, user_ns))
             except:
                 value = self._simple_error()
             out[key] = value
         return out
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Things related to the running of code
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def ex(self, cmd):
         """Execute a normal python statement in user namespace."""
         with self.builtin_trap:
             exec cmd in self.user_global_ns, self.user_ns
 
     def ev(self, expr):
         """Evaluate python expression expr in user namespace.
 
         Returns the result of evaluation
         """
         with self.builtin_trap:
             return eval(expr, self.user_global_ns, self.user_ns)
 
     def safe_execfile(self, fname, *where, **kw):
         """A safe version of the builtin execfile().
 
         This version will never throw an exception, but instead print
         helpful error messages to the screen.  This only works on pure
         Python files with the .py extension.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         fname : string
             The name of the file to be executed.
         where : tuple
             One or two namespaces, passed to execfile() as (globals,locals).
             If only one is given, it is passed as both.
         exit_ignore : bool (False)
             If True, then silence SystemExit for non-zero status (it is always
             silenced for zero status, as it is so common).
         raise_exceptions : bool (False)
             If True raise exceptions everywhere. Meant for testing.
 
         """
         kw.setdefault('exit_ignore', False)
         kw.setdefault('raise_exceptions', False)
 
         fname = os.path.abspath(os.path.expanduser(fname))
 
         # Make sure we can open the file
         try:
             with open(fname) as thefile:
                 pass
         except:
             warn('Could not open file <%s> for safe execution.' % fname)
             return
 
         # Find things also in current directory.  This is needed to mimic the
         # behavior of running a script from the system command line, where
         # Python inserts the script's directory into sys.path
         dname = os.path.dirname(fname)
 
         with prepended_to_syspath(dname):
             try:
                 py3compat.execfile(fname,*where)
             except SystemExit, status:
                 # If the call was made with 0 or None exit status (sys.exit(0)
                 # or sys.exit() ), don't bother showing a traceback, as both of
                 # these are considered normal by the OS:
                 # > python -c'import sys;sys.exit(0)'; echo $?
                 # 0
                 # > python -c'import sys;sys.exit()'; echo $?
                 # 0
                 # For other exit status, we show the exception unless
                 # explicitly silenced, but only in short form.
                 if kw['raise_exceptions']:
                     raise
                 if status.code not in (0, None) and not kw['exit_ignore']:
                     self.showtraceback(exception_only=True)
             except:
                 if kw['raise_exceptions']:
                     raise
                 self.showtraceback()
 
     def safe_execfile_ipy(self, fname):
         """Like safe_execfile, but for .ipy files with IPython syntax.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         fname : str
             The name of the file to execute.  The filename must have a
             .ipy extension.
         """
         fname = os.path.abspath(os.path.expanduser(fname))
 
         # Make sure we can open the file
         try:
             with open(fname) as thefile:
                 pass
         except:
             warn('Could not open file <%s> for safe execution.' % fname)
             return
 
         # Find things also in current directory.  This is needed to mimic the
         # behavior of running a script from the system command line, where
         # Python inserts the script's directory into sys.path
         dname = os.path.dirname(fname)
 
         with prepended_to_syspath(dname):
             try:
                 with open(fname) as thefile:
                     # self.run_cell currently captures all exceptions
                     # raised in user code.  It would be nice if there were
                     # versions of runlines, execfile that did raise, so
                     # we could catch the errors.
                     self.run_cell(thefile.read(), store_history=False)
             except:
                 self.showtraceback()
                 warn('Unknown failure executing file: <%s>' % fname)
 
     def run_cell(self, raw_cell, store_history=False):
         """Run a complete IPython cell.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         raw_cell : str
           The code (including IPython code such as %magic functions) to run.
         store_history : bool
           If True, the raw and translated cell will be stored in IPython's
           history. For user code calling back into IPython's machinery, this
           should be set to False.
         """
         if (not raw_cell) or raw_cell.isspace():
             return
 
         for line in raw_cell.splitlines():
             self.input_splitter.push(line)
         cell = self.input_splitter.source_reset()
 
         with self.builtin_trap:
             prefilter_failed = False
             if len(cell.splitlines()) == 1:
                 try:
                     # use prefilter_lines to handle trailing newlines
                     # restore trailing newline for ast.parse
                     cell = self.prefilter_manager.prefilter_lines(cell) + '\n'
                 except AliasError as e:
                     error(e)
                     prefilter_failed = True
                 except Exception:
                     # don't allow prefilter errors to crash IPython
                     self.showtraceback()
                     prefilter_failed = True
 
             # Store raw and processed history
             if store_history:
                 self.history_manager.store_inputs(self.execution_count,
                                                   cell, raw_cell)
 
             self.logger.log(cell, raw_cell)
 
             if not prefilter_failed:
                 # don't run if prefilter failed
                 cell_name = self.compile.cache(cell, self.execution_count)
 
                 with self.display_trap:
                     try:
                         code_ast = self.compile.ast_parse(cell, filename=cell_name)
                     except IndentationError:
                         self.showindentationerror()
                         self.execution_count += 1
                         return None
                     except (OverflowError, SyntaxError, ValueError, TypeError,
                             MemoryError):
                         self.showsyntaxerror()
                         self.execution_count += 1
                         return None
 
                     self.run_ast_nodes(code_ast.body, cell_name,
                                        interactivity="last_expr")
 
                     # Execute any registered post-execution functions.
                     for func, status in self._post_execute.iteritems():
                         if not status:
                             continue
                         try:
                             func()
                         except KeyboardInterrupt:
                             print >> io.stderr, "\nKeyboardInterrupt"
                         except Exception:
                             print >> io.stderr, "Disabling failed post-execution function: %s" % func
                             self.showtraceback()
                             # Deactivate failing function
                             self._post_execute[func] = False
 
         if store_history:
             # Write output to the database. Does nothing unless
             # history output logging is enabled.
             self.history_manager.store_output(self.execution_count)
             # Each cell is a *single* input, regardless of how many lines it has
             self.execution_count += 1
 
     def run_ast_nodes(self, nodelist, cell_name, interactivity='last_expr'):
         """Run a sequence of AST nodes. The execution mode depends on the
         interactivity parameter.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         nodelist : list
           A sequence of AST nodes to run.
         cell_name : str
           Will be passed to the compiler as the filename of the cell. Typically
           the value returned by ip.compile.cache(cell).
         interactivity : str
           'all', 'last', 'last_expr' or 'none', specifying which nodes should be
           run interactively (displaying output from expressions). 'last_expr'
           will run the last node interactively only if it is an expression (i.e.
           expressions in loops or other blocks are not displayed. Other values
           for this parameter will raise a ValueError.
         """
         if not nodelist:
             return
 
         if interactivity == 'last_expr':
             if isinstance(nodelist[-1], ast.Expr):
                 interactivity = "last"
             else:
                 interactivity = "none"
 
         if interactivity == 'none':
             to_run_exec, to_run_interactive = nodelist, []
         elif interactivity == 'last':
             to_run_exec, to_run_interactive = nodelist[:-1], nodelist[-1:]
         elif interactivity == 'all':
             to_run_exec, to_run_interactive = [], nodelist
         else:
             raise ValueError("Interactivity was %r" % interactivity)
 
         exec_count = self.execution_count
 
         try:
             for i, node in enumerate(to_run_exec):
                 mod = ast.Module([node])
                 code = self.compile(mod, cell_name, "exec")
                 if self.run_code(code):
                     return True
 
             for i, node in enumerate(to_run_interactive):
                 mod = ast.Interactive([node])
                 code = self.compile(mod, cell_name, "single")
                 if self.run_code(code):
                     return True
         except:
             # It's possible to have exceptions raised here, typically by
             # compilation of odd code (such as a naked 'return' outside a
             # function) that did parse but isn't valid. Typically the exception
             # is a SyntaxError, but it's safest just to catch anything and show
             # the user a traceback.
 
             # We do only one try/except outside the loop to minimize the impact
             # on runtime, and also because if any node in the node list is
             # broken, we should stop execution completely.
             self.showtraceback()
 
         return False
 
     def run_code(self, code_obj):
         """Execute a code object.
 
         When an exception occurs, self.showtraceback() is called to display a
         traceback.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         code_obj : code object
           A compiled code object, to be executed
         post_execute : bool [default: True]
           whether to call post_execute hooks after this particular execution.
 
         Returns
         -------
         False : successful execution.
         True : an error occurred.
         """
 
         # Set our own excepthook in case the user code tries to call it
         # directly, so that the IPython crash handler doesn't get triggered
         old_excepthook,sys.excepthook = sys.excepthook, self.excepthook
 
         # we save the original sys.excepthook in the instance, in case config
         # code (such as magics) needs access to it.
         self.sys_excepthook = old_excepthook
         outflag = 1  # happens in more places, so it's easier as default
         try:
             try:
                 self.hooks.pre_run_code_hook()
                 #rprint('Running code', repr(code_obj)) # dbg
                 exec code_obj in self.user_global_ns, self.user_ns
             finally:
                 # Reset our crash handler in place
                 sys.excepthook = old_excepthook
         except SystemExit:
             self.showtraceback(exception_only=True)
             warn("To exit: use 'exit', 'quit', or Ctrl-D.", level=1)
         except self.custom_exceptions:
             etype,value,tb = sys.exc_info()
             self.CustomTB(etype,value,tb)
         except:
             self.showtraceback()
         else:
             outflag = 0
             if softspace(sys.stdout, 0):
                 print
 
         return outflag
 
     # For backwards compatibility
     runcode = run_code
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Things related to GUI support and pylab
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def enable_gui(self, gui=None):
         raise NotImplementedError('Implement enable_gui in a subclass')
 
     def enable_pylab(self, gui=None, import_all=True):
         """Activate pylab support at runtime.
 
         This turns on support for matplotlib, preloads into the interactive
         namespace all of numpy and pylab, and configures IPython to correctly
         interact with the GUI event loop.  The GUI backend to be used can be
         optionally selected with the optional :param:`gui` argument.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         gui : optional, string
 
           If given, dictates the choice of matplotlib GUI backend to use
           (should be one of IPython's supported backends, 'qt', 'osx', 'tk',
           'gtk', 'wx' or 'inline'), otherwise we use the default chosen by
           matplotlib (as dictated by the matplotlib build-time options plus the
           user's matplotlibrc configuration file).  Note that not all backends
           make sense in all contexts, for example a terminal ipython can't
           display figures inline.
         """
 
         # We want to prevent the loading of pylab to pollute the user's
         # namespace as shown by the %who* magics, so we execute the activation
         # code in an empty namespace, and we update *both* user_ns and
         # user_ns_hidden with this information.
         ns = {}
         try:
             gui = pylab_activate(ns, gui, import_all, self)
         except KeyError:
             error("Backend %r not supported" % gui)
             return
         self.user_ns.update(ns)
         self.user_ns_hidden.update(ns)
         # Now we must activate the gui pylab wants to use, and fix %run to take
         # plot updates into account
         self.enable_gui(gui)
         self.magic_run = self._pylab_magic_run
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Utilities
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def var_expand(self, cmd, depth=0, formatter=DollarFormatter()):
         """Expand python variables in a string.
 
         The depth argument indicates how many frames above the caller should
         be walked to look for the local namespace where to expand variables.
 
         The global namespace for expansion is always the user's interactive
         namespace.
         """
         ns = self.user_ns.copy()
         ns.update(sys._getframe(depth+1).f_locals)
         ns.pop('self', None)
         return formatter.format(cmd, **ns)
 
     def mktempfile(self, data=None, prefix='ipython_edit_'):
         """Make a new tempfile and return its filename.
 
         This makes a call to tempfile.mktemp, but it registers the created
         filename internally so ipython cleans it up at exit time.
 
         Optional inputs:
 
           - data(None): if data is given, it gets written out to the temp file
           immediately, and the file is closed again."""
 
         filename = tempfile.mktemp('.py', prefix)
         self.tempfiles.append(filename)
 
         if data:
             tmp_file = open(filename,'w')
             tmp_file.write(data)
             tmp_file.close()
         return filename
 
     # TODO:  This should be removed when Term is refactored.
     def write(self,data):
         """Write a string to the default output"""
         io.stdout.write(data)
 
     # TODO:  This should be removed when Term is refactored.
     def write_err(self,data):
         """Write a string to the default error output"""
         io.stderr.write(data)
 
     def ask_yes_no(self, prompt, default=None):
         if self.quiet:
             return True
         return ask_yes_no(prompt,default)
 
     def show_usage(self):
         """Show a usage message"""
         page.page(IPython.core.usage.interactive_usage)
 
     def find_user_code(self, target, raw=True):
         """Get a code string from history, file, or a string or macro.
 
         This is mainly used by magic functions.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         target : str
           A string specifying code to retrieve. This will be tried respectively
           as: ranges of input history (see %history for syntax), a filename, or
           an expression evaluating to a string or Macro in the user namespace.
         raw : bool
           If true (default), retrieve raw history. Has no effect on the other
           retrieval mechanisms.
 
         Returns
         -------
         A string of code.
 
         ValueError is raised if nothing is found, and TypeError if it evaluates
         to an object of another type. In each case, .args[0] is a printable
         message.
         """
         code = self.extract_input_lines(target, raw=raw)  # Grab history
         if code:
             return code
         if os.path.isfile(target):                        # Read file
             return open(target, "r").read()
 
         try:                                              # User namespace
             codeobj = eval(target, self.user_ns)
         except Exception:
             raise ValueError(("'%s' was not found in history, as a file, nor in"
                                 " the user namespace.") % target)
         if isinstance(codeobj, basestring):
             return codeobj
         elif isinstance(codeobj, Macro):
             return codeobj.value
 
         raise TypeError("%s is neither a string nor a macro." % target,
                         codeobj)
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Things related to IPython exiting
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     def atexit_operations(self):
         """This will be executed at the time of exit.
 
         Cleanup operations and saving of persistent data that is done
         unconditionally by IPython should be performed here.
 
         For things that may depend on startup flags or platform specifics (such
         as having readline or not), register a separate atexit function in the
         code that has the appropriate information, rather than trying to
         clutter
         """
         # Close the history session (this stores the end time and line count)
         # this must be *before* the tempfile cleanup, in case of temporary
         # history db
         self.history_manager.end_session()
 
         # Cleanup all tempfiles left around
         for tfile in self.tempfiles:
             try:
                 os.unlink(tfile)
             except OSError:
                 pass
 
         # Clear all user namespaces to release all references cleanly.
         self.reset(new_session=False)
 
         # Run user hooks
         self.hooks.shutdown_hook()
 
     def cleanup(self):
         self.restore_sys_module_state()
 
 
 class InteractiveShellABC(object):
     """An abstract base class for InteractiveShell."""
     __metaclass__ = abc.ABCMeta
 
 InteractiveShellABC.register(InteractiveShell)

IPython/core/prompts.py

@@ -1,378 +1,382 b''
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 """Classes for handling input/output prompts.
 
 Authors:
 
 * Fernando Perez
 * Brian Granger
 * Thomas Kluyver
 """
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #       Copyright (C) 2008-2011 The IPython Development Team
 #       Copyright (C) 2001-2007 Fernando Perez <[e-mail]>
 #
 #  Distributed under the terms of the BSD License.  The full license is in
 #  the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Imports
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 import os
 import re
 import socket
 import sys
 import time
 
 from IPython.config.configurable import Configurable
 from IPython.core import release
 from IPython.utils import coloransi
 from IPython.utils.traitlets import (Unicode, Instance, Dict, Bool, Int)
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Color schemes for prompts
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 InputColors = coloransi.InputTermColors  # just a shorthand
 Colors = coloransi.TermColors  # just a shorthand
 
 color_lists = dict(normal=Colors(), inp=InputColors(), nocolor=coloransi.NoColors())
 
 PColNoColors = coloransi.ColorScheme(
     'NoColor',
     in_prompt  = InputColors.NoColor,  # Input prompt
     in_number  = InputColors.NoColor,  # Input prompt number
     in_prompt2 = InputColors.NoColor, # Continuation prompt
     in_normal  = InputColors.NoColor,  # color off (usu. Colors.Normal)
 
     out_prompt = Colors.NoColor, # Output prompt
     out_number = Colors.NoColor, # Output prompt number
 
     normal = Colors.NoColor  # color off (usu. Colors.Normal)
     )
 
 # make some schemes as instances so we can copy them for modification easily:
 PColLinux =  coloransi.ColorScheme(
     'Linux',
     in_prompt  = InputColors.Green,
     in_number  = InputColors.LightGreen,
     in_prompt2 = InputColors.Green,
     in_normal  = InputColors.Normal,  # color off (usu. Colors.Normal)
 
     out_prompt = Colors.Red,
     out_number = Colors.LightRed,
 
     normal = Colors.Normal
     )
 
 # Slightly modified Linux for light backgrounds
 PColLightBG  = PColLinux.copy('LightBG')
 
 PColLightBG.colors.update(
     in_prompt  = InputColors.Blue,
     in_number  = InputColors.LightBlue,
     in_prompt2 = InputColors.Blue
 )
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Utilities
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 class LazyEvaluate(object):
     """This is used for formatting strings with values that need to be updated
     at that time, such as the current time or working directory."""
     def __init__(self, func, *args, **kwargs):
         self.func = func
         self.args = args
         self.kwargs = kwargs
     
     def __call__(self, **kwargs):
         self.kwargs.update(kwargs)
         return self.func(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
     
     def __str__(self):
         return str(self())
 
 def multiple_replace(dict, text):
     """ Replace in 'text' all occurences of any key in the given
     dictionary by its corresponding value.  Returns the new string."""
 
     # Function by Xavier Defrang, originally found at:
     # http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/81330
 
     # Create a regular expression  from the dictionary keys
     regex = re.compile("(%s)" % "|".join(map(re.escape, dict.keys())))
     # For each match, look-up corresponding value in dictionary
     return regex.sub(lambda mo: dict[mo.string[mo.start():mo.end()]], text)
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Special characters that can be used in prompt templates, mainly bash-like
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # If $HOME isn't defined (Windows), make it an absurd string so that it can
 # never be expanded out into '~'.  Basically anything which can never be a
 # reasonable directory name will do, we just want the $HOME -> '~' operation
 # to become a no-op.  We pre-compute $HOME here so it's not done on every
 # prompt call.
 
 # FIXME:
 
 # - This should be turned into a class which does proper namespace management,
 # since the prompt specials need to be evaluated in a certain namespace.
 # Currently it's just globals, which need to be managed manually by code
 # below.
 
 # - I also need to split up the color schemes from the prompt specials
 # somehow.  I don't have a clean design for that quite yet.
 
 HOME = os.environ.get("HOME","//////:::::ZZZZZ,,,~~~")
 
 # We precompute a few more strings here for the prompt_specials, which are
 # fixed once ipython starts.  This reduces the runtime overhead of computing
 # prompt strings.
 USER           = os.environ.get("USER")
 HOSTNAME       = socket.gethostname()
 HOSTNAME_SHORT = HOSTNAME.split(".")[0]
 ROOT_SYMBOL    = "#" if (os.name=='nt' or os.getuid()==0) else "$"
 
 prompt_abbreviations = {
     # Prompt/history count
     '%n' : '{color.number}' '{count}' '{color.prompt}',
     r'\#': '{color.number}' '{count}' '{color.prompt}',
     # Just the prompt counter number, WITHOUT any coloring wrappers, so users
     # can get numbers displayed in whatever color they want.
     r'\N': '{count}',
 
     # Prompt/history count, with the actual digits replaced by dots.  Used
     # mainly in continuation prompts (prompt_in2)
     r'\D': '{dots}',
 
     # Current time
     r'\T' : '{time}',
     # Current working directory
     r'\w': '{cwd}',
     # Basename of current working directory.
     # (use os.sep to make this portable across OSes)
     r'\W' : '{cwd_last}',
     # These X<N> are an extension to the normal bash prompts.  They return
     # N terms of the path, after replacing $HOME with '~'
     r'\X0': '{cwd_x[0]}',
     r'\X1': '{cwd_x[1]}',
     r'\X2': '{cwd_x[2]}',
     r'\X3': '{cwd_x[3]}',
     r'\X4': '{cwd_x[4]}',
     r'\X5': '{cwd_x[5]}',
     # Y<N> are similar to X<N>, but they show '~' if it's the directory
     # N+1 in the list.  Somewhat like %cN in tcsh.
     r'\Y0': '{cwd_y[0]}',
     r'\Y1': '{cwd_y[1]}',
     r'\Y2': '{cwd_y[2]}',
     r'\Y3': '{cwd_y[3]}',
     r'\Y4': '{cwd_y[4]}',
     r'\Y5': '{cwd_y[5]}',
     # Hostname up to first .
     r'\h': HOSTNAME_SHORT,
     # Full hostname
     r'\H': HOSTNAME,
     # Username of current user
     r'\u': USER,
     # Escaped '\'
     '\\\\': '\\',
     # Newline
     r'\n': '\n',
     # Carriage return
     r'\r': '\r',
     # Release version
     r'\v': release.version,
     # Root symbol ($ or #)
     r'\$': ROOT_SYMBOL,
     }
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # More utilities
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 def cwd_filt(depth):
     """Return the last depth elements of the current working directory.
 
     $HOME is always replaced with '~'.
     If depth==0, the full path is returned."""
 
     cwd = os.getcwd().replace(HOME,"~")
     out = os.sep.join(cwd.split(os.sep)[-depth:])
     return out or os.sep
 
 def cwd_filt2(depth):
     """Return the last depth elements of the current working directory.
 
     $HOME is always replaced with '~'.
     If depth==0, the full path is returned."""
 
     full_cwd = os.getcwd()
     cwd = full_cwd.replace(HOME,"~").split(os.sep)
     if '~' in cwd and len(cwd) == depth+1:
         depth += 1
     drivepart = ''
     if sys.platform == 'win32' and len(cwd) > depth:
         drivepart = os.path.splitdrive(full_cwd)[0]
     out = drivepart + '/'.join(cwd[-depth:])
 
     return out or os.sep
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Prompt classes
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 lazily_evaluate = {'time': LazyEvaluate(time.strftime, "%H:%M:%S"),
                    'cwd': LazyEvaluate(os.getcwd),
                    'cwd_last': LazyEvaluate(lambda: os.getcwd().split(os.sep)[-1]),
                    'cwd_x': [LazyEvaluate(lambda: os.getcwd().replace("%s","~"))] +\
                             [LazyEvaluate(cwd_filt, x) for x in range(1,6)],
                    'cwd_y': [LazyEvaluate(cwd_filt2, x) for x in range(6)]
                    }
         
 
 class PromptManager(Configurable):
     """This is the primary interface for producing IPython's prompts."""
     shell = Instance('IPython.core.interactiveshell.InteractiveShellABC')
     
     color_scheme_table = Instance(coloransi.ColorSchemeTable)
     color_scheme = Unicode('Linux', config=True)
     def _color_scheme_changed(self, name, new_value):
         self.color_scheme_table.set_active_scheme(new_value)
         for pname in ['in', 'in2', 'out', 'rewrite']:
             # We need to recalculate the number of invisible characters
             self.update_prompt(pname)
     
     lazy_evaluate_fields = Dict(help="""
         This maps field names used in the prompt templates to functions which
         will be called when the prompt is rendered. This allows us to include
         things like the current time in the prompts. Functions are only called
         if they are used in the prompt.
         """)
     def _lazy_evaluate_fields_default(self): return lazily_evaluate.copy()
     
-    in_template = Unicode('In [\\#]: ', config=True)
-    in2_template = Unicode('   .\\D.: ', config=True)
-    out_template = Unicode('Out[\\#]: ', config=True)
-    rewrite_template = Unicode("------> ", config=True)
+    in_template = Unicode('In [\\#]: ', config=True,
+        help="Input prompt.  '\\#' will be transformed to the prompt number")
+    in2_template = Unicode('   .\\D.: ', config=True,
+        help="Continuation prompt.")
+    out_template = Unicode('Out[\\#]: ', config=True,
+        help="Output prompt. '\\#' will be transformed to the prompt number")
+    rewrite_template = Unicode("------> ", config=True,
+        help="Rewrite prompt. When inputs are transformed, the rewritten input will follow this.")
     
     justify = Bool(True, config=True, help="""
         If True (default), each prompt will be right-aligned with the
         preceding one.
         """)
     
     # We actually store the expanded templates here:
     templates = Dict()
     
     # The number of characters in the last prompt rendered, not including
     # colour characters.
     width = Int()
     
     # The number of characters in each prompt which don't contribute to width
     invisible_chars = Dict()
     def _invisible_chars_default(self):
         return {'in': 0, 'in2': 0, 'out': 0, 'rewrite': 0}
     
     def __init__(self, shell, config=None):
         super(PromptManager, self).__init__(shell=shell, config=config)
         
         # Prepare colour scheme table
         self.color_scheme_table = coloransi.ColorSchemeTable([PColNoColors,
                                     PColLinux, PColLightBG], self.color_scheme)
         
         # Prepare templates
         self.update_prompt('in', self.in_template)
         self.update_prompt('in2', self.in2_template)
         self.update_prompt('out', self.out_template)
         self.update_prompt('rewrite', self.rewrite_template)
         self.on_trait_change(self._update_prompt_trait, ['in_template',
                             'in2_template', 'out_template', 'rewrite_template'])
     
     def update_prompt(self, name, new_template=None):
         """This is called when a prompt template is updated. It processes
         abbreviations used in the prompt template (like \#) and calculates how
         many invisible characters (ANSI colour escapes) the resulting prompt
         contains.
         
         It is also called for each prompt on changing the colour scheme. In both
         cases, traitlets should take care of calling this automatically.
         """
         if new_template is not None:
             self.templates[name] = multiple_replace(prompt_abbreviations, new_template)
         invis_chars = len(self.render(name, color=True, just=False)) - \
                             len(self.render(name, color=False, just=False))
         self.invisible_chars[name] = invis_chars
     
     def _update_prompt_trait(self, traitname, new_template):
         name = traitname[:-9]   # Cut off '_template'
         self.update_prompt(name, new_template)
     
     def render(self, name, color=True, just=None, **kwargs):
         """
         Render the selected prompt.
         
         Parameters
         ----------
         name : str
           Which prompt to render. One of 'in', 'in2', 'out', 'rewrite'
         color : bool
           If True (default), include ANSI escape sequences for a coloured prompt.
         just : bool
           If True, justify the prompt to the width of the last prompt. The
           default is stored in self.justify.
         **kwargs :
           Additional arguments will be passed to the string formatting operation,
           so they can override the values that would otherwise fill in the
           template.
         
         Returns
         -------
         A string containing the rendered prompt.
         """
         if color:
             scheme = self.color_scheme_table.active_colors
             if name=='out':
                 colors = color_lists['normal']
                 colors.number, colors.prompt, colors.normal = \
                         scheme.out_number, scheme.out_prompt, scheme.normal
             elif name=='rewrite':
                 colors = color_lists['normal']
                 # We need a non-input version of these escapes
                 colors.number = scheme.in_number.replace("\001","").replace("\002","")
                 colors.prompt = scheme.in_prompt.replace("\001","").replace("\002","")
                 colors.normal = scheme.normal
             else:
                 colors = color_lists['inp']
                 colors.number, colors.prompt, colors.normal = \
                         scheme.in_number, scheme.in_prompt, scheme.in_normal
                 if name=='in2':
                     colors.prompt = scheme.in_prompt2
         else:
             # No color
             colors = color_lists['nocolor']
             colors.number, colors.prompt, colors.normal = '', '', ''
         
         count = self.shell.execution_count    # Shorthand
         # Build the dictionary to be passed to string formatting
         fmtargs = dict(color=colors, count=count,
                         dots="."*len(str(count)) )
         fmtargs.update(self.lazy_evaluate_fields)
         fmtargs.update(kwargs)
         
         # Prepare the prompt
         prompt = colors.prompt + self.templates[name] + colors.normal
         
         # Fill in required fields
         res = prompt.format(**fmtargs)
         
         # Handle justification of prompt
         invis_chars = self.invisible_chars[name] if color else 0
         just = self.justify if (just is None) else just
         if just:
             res = res.rjust(self.width + invis_chars)
         self.width = len(res) - invis_chars
         return res
 

IPython/frontend/terminal/ipapp.py

@@ -1,397 +1,399 b''
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 # encoding: utf-8
 """
 The :class:`~IPython.core.application.Application` object for the command
 line :command:`ipython` program.
 
 Authors
 -------
 
 * Brian Granger
 * Fernando Perez
 * Min Ragan-Kelley
 """
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #  Copyright (C) 2008-2011  The IPython Development Team
 #
 #  Distributed under the terms of the BSD License.  The full license is in
 #  the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Imports
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 
 import logging
 import os
 import sys
 
 from IPython.config.loader import (
     Config, PyFileConfigLoader, ConfigFileNotFound
 )
 from IPython.config.application import boolean_flag, catch_config_error
 from IPython.core import release
 from IPython.core import usage
 from IPython.core.completer import IPCompleter
 from IPython.core.crashhandler import CrashHandler
 from IPython.core.formatters import PlainTextFormatter
+from IPython.core.prompts import PromptManager
 from IPython.core.application import (
     ProfileDir, BaseIPythonApplication, base_flags, base_aliases
 )
 from IPython.core.shellapp import (
     InteractiveShellApp, shell_flags, shell_aliases
 )
 from IPython.frontend.terminal.interactiveshell import TerminalInteractiveShell
 from IPython.lib import inputhook
 from IPython.utils import warn
 from IPython.utils.path import get_ipython_dir, check_for_old_config
 from IPython.utils.traitlets import (
     Bool, List, Dict, CaselessStrEnum
 )
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Globals, utilities and helpers
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 #: The default config file name for this application.
 default_config_file_name = u'ipython_config.py'
 
 _examples = """
 ipython --pylab            # start in pylab mode
 ipython --pylab=qt         # start in pylab mode with the qt4 backend
 ipython --log-level=DEBUG  # set logging to DEBUG
 ipython --profile=foo      # start with profile foo
 
 ipython qtconsole          # start the qtconsole GUI application
 ipython qtconsole -h       # show the help string for the qtconsole subcmd
 
 ipython profile create foo # create profile foo w/ default config files
 ipython profile -h         # show the help string for the profile subcmd
 """
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Crash handler for this application
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 class IPAppCrashHandler(CrashHandler):
     """sys.excepthook for IPython itself, leaves a detailed report on disk."""
 
     def __init__(self, app):
         contact_name = release.authors['Fernando'][0]
         contact_email = release.author_email
         bug_tracker = 'https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues'
         super(IPAppCrashHandler,self).__init__(
             app, contact_name, contact_email, bug_tracker
         )
 
     def make_report(self,traceback):
         """Return a string containing a crash report."""
 
         sec_sep = self.section_sep
         # Start with parent report
         report = [super(IPAppCrashHandler, self).make_report(traceback)]
         # Add interactive-specific info we may have
         rpt_add = report.append
         try:
             rpt_add(sec_sep+"History of session input:")
             for line in self.app.shell.user_ns['_ih']:
                 rpt_add(line)
             rpt_add('\n*** Last line of input (may not be in above history):\n')
             rpt_add(self.app.shell._last_input_line+'\n')
         except:
             pass
 
         return ''.join(report)
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Aliases and Flags
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 flags = dict(base_flags)
 flags.update(shell_flags)
 addflag = lambda *args: flags.update(boolean_flag(*args))
 addflag('autoedit-syntax', 'TerminalInteractiveShell.autoedit_syntax',
         'Turn on auto editing of files with syntax errors.',
         'Turn off auto editing of files with syntax errors.'
 )
 addflag('banner', 'TerminalIPythonApp.display_banner',
         "Display a banner upon starting IPython.",
         "Don't display a banner upon starting IPython."
 )
 addflag('confirm-exit', 'TerminalInteractiveShell.confirm_exit',
     """Set to confirm when you try to exit IPython with an EOF (Control-D
     in Unix, Control-Z/Enter in Windows). By typing 'exit' or 'quit',
     you can force a direct exit without any confirmation.""",
     "Don't prompt the user when exiting."
 )
 addflag('term-title', 'TerminalInteractiveShell.term_title',
     "Enable auto setting the terminal title.",
     "Disable auto setting the terminal title."
 )
 classic_config = Config()
 classic_config.InteractiveShell.cache_size = 0
 classic_config.PlainTextFormatter.pprint = False
-classic_config.InteractiveShell.prompt_in1 = '>>> '
-classic_config.InteractiveShell.prompt_in2 = '... '
-classic_config.InteractiveShell.prompt_out = ''
+classic_config.PromptManager.in_template = '>>> '
+classic_config.PromptManager.in2_template = '... '
+classic_config.PromptManager.out_template = ''
 classic_config.InteractiveShell.separate_in = ''
 classic_config.InteractiveShell.separate_out = ''
 classic_config.InteractiveShell.separate_out2 = ''
 classic_config.InteractiveShell.colors = 'NoColor'
 classic_config.InteractiveShell.xmode = 'Plain'
 
 flags['classic']=(
     classic_config,
     "Gives IPython a similar feel to the classic Python prompt."
 )
 # # log doesn't make so much sense this way anymore
 # paa('--log','-l',
 #     action='store_true', dest='InteractiveShell.logstart',
 #     help="Start logging to the default log file (./ipython_log.py).")
 #
 # # quick is harder to implement
 flags['quick']=(
     {'TerminalIPythonApp' : {'quick' : True}},
     "Enable quick startup with no config files."
 )
 
 flags['i'] = (
     {'TerminalIPythonApp' : {'force_interact' : True}},
     """If running code from the command line, become interactive afterwards.
     Note: can also be given simply as '-i.'"""
 )
 flags['pylab'] = (
     {'TerminalIPythonApp' : {'pylab' : 'auto'}},
     """Pre-load matplotlib and numpy for interactive use with
     the default matplotlib backend."""
 )
 
 aliases = dict(base_aliases)
 aliases.update(shell_aliases)
 
 # it's possible we don't want short aliases for *all* of these:
 aliases.update(dict(
     gui='TerminalIPythonApp.gui',
     pylab='TerminalIPythonApp.pylab',
 ))
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Main classes and functions
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 class TerminalIPythonApp(BaseIPythonApplication, InteractiveShellApp):
     name = u'ipython'
     description = usage.cl_usage
     default_config_file_name = default_config_file_name
     crash_handler_class = IPAppCrashHandler
     examples = _examples
 
     flags = Dict(flags)
     aliases = Dict(aliases)
     classes = List()
     def _classes_default(self):
         """This has to be in a method, for TerminalIPythonApp to be available."""
         return [
             InteractiveShellApp, # ShellApp comes before TerminalApp, because
             self.__class__,      # it will also affect subclasses (e.g. QtConsole)
             TerminalInteractiveShell,
+            PromptManager,
             ProfileDir,
             PlainTextFormatter,
             IPCompleter,
         ]
 
     subcommands = Dict(dict(
         qtconsole=('IPython.frontend.qt.console.qtconsoleapp.IPythonQtConsoleApp',
             """Launch the IPython Qt Console."""
         ),
         notebook=('IPython.frontend.html.notebook.notebookapp.NotebookApp',
             """Launch the IPython HTML Notebook Server"""
         ),
         profile = ("IPython.core.profileapp.ProfileApp",
             "Create and manage IPython profiles."
         ),
         kernel = ("IPython.zmq.ipkernel.IPKernelApp",
             "Start a kernel without an attached frontend."
         ),
     ))
 
     # *do* autocreate requested profile, but don't create the config file.
     auto_create=Bool(True)
     # configurables
     ignore_old_config=Bool(False, config=True,
         help="Suppress warning messages about legacy config files"
     )
     quick = Bool(False, config=True,
         help="""Start IPython quickly by skipping the loading of config files."""
     )
     def _quick_changed(self, name, old, new):
         if new:
             self.load_config_file = lambda *a, **kw: None
             self.ignore_old_config=True
 
     gui = CaselessStrEnum(('qt', 'wx', 'gtk', 'glut', 'pyglet'), config=True,
         help="Enable GUI event loop integration ('qt', 'wx', 'gtk', 'glut', 'pyglet')."
     )
     pylab = CaselessStrEnum(['tk', 'qt', 'wx', 'gtk', 'osx', 'auto'],
         config=True,
         help="""Pre-load matplotlib and numpy for interactive use,
         selecting a particular matplotlib backend and loop integration.
         """
     )
     display_banner = Bool(True, config=True,
         help="Whether to display a banner upon starting IPython."
     )
 
     # if there is code of files to run from the cmd line, don't interact
     # unless the --i flag (App.force_interact) is true.
     force_interact = Bool(False, config=True,
         help="""If a command or file is given via the command-line,
         e.g. 'ipython foo.py"""
     )
     def _force_interact_changed(self, name, old, new):
         if new:
             self.interact = True
 
     def _file_to_run_changed(self, name, old, new):
         if new and not self.force_interact:
                 self.interact = False
     _code_to_run_changed = _file_to_run_changed
 
     # internal, not-configurable
     interact=Bool(True)
 
 
     def parse_command_line(self, argv=None):
         """override to allow old '-pylab' flag with deprecation warning"""
 
         argv = sys.argv[1:] if argv is None else argv
 
         if '-pylab' in argv:
             # deprecated `-pylab` given,
             # warn and transform into current syntax
             argv = argv[:] # copy, don't clobber
             idx = argv.index('-pylab')
             warn.warn("`-pylab` flag has been deprecated.\n"
             "    Use `--pylab` instead, or `--pylab=foo` to specify a backend.")
             sub = '--pylab'
             if len(argv) > idx+1:
                 # check for gui arg, as in '-pylab qt'
                 gui = argv[idx+1]
                 if gui in ('wx', 'qt', 'qt4', 'gtk', 'auto'):
                     sub = '--pylab='+gui
                     argv.pop(idx+1)
             argv[idx] = sub
 
         return super(TerminalIPythonApp, self).parse_command_line(argv)
     
     @catch_config_error
     def initialize(self, argv=None):
         """Do actions after construct, but before starting the app."""
         super(TerminalIPythonApp, self).initialize(argv)
         if self.subapp is not None:
             # don't bother initializing further, starting subapp
             return
         if not self.ignore_old_config:
             check_for_old_config(self.ipython_dir)
         # print self.extra_args
         if self.extra_args:
             self.file_to_run = self.extra_args[0]
         # create the shell
         self.init_shell()
         # and draw the banner
         self.init_banner()
         # Now a variety of things that happen after the banner is printed.
         self.init_gui_pylab()
         self.init_extensions()
         self.init_code()
 
     def init_shell(self):
         """initialize the InteractiveShell instance"""
         # I am a little hesitant to put these into InteractiveShell itself.
         # But that might be the place for them
         sys.path.insert(0, '')
 
         # Create an InteractiveShell instance.
         # shell.display_banner should always be False for the terminal
         # based app, because we call shell.show_banner() by hand below
         # so the banner shows *before* all extension loading stuff.
         self.shell = TerminalInteractiveShell.instance(config=self.config,
                         display_banner=False, profile_dir=self.profile_dir,
                         ipython_dir=self.ipython_dir)
         self.shell.configurables.append(self)
 
     def init_banner(self):
         """optionally display the banner"""
         if self.display_banner and self.interact:
             self.shell.show_banner()
         # Make sure there is a space below the banner.
         if self.log_level <= logging.INFO: print
 
 
     def init_gui_pylab(self):
         """Enable GUI event loop integration, taking pylab into account."""
         gui = self.gui
 
         # Using `pylab` will also require gui activation, though which toolkit
         # to use may be chosen automatically based on mpl configuration.
         if self.pylab:
             activate = self.shell.enable_pylab
             if self.pylab == 'auto':
                 gui = None
             else:
                 gui = self.pylab
         else:
             # Enable only GUI integration, no pylab
             activate = inputhook.enable_gui
 
         if gui or self.pylab:
             try:
                 self.log.info("Enabling GUI event loop integration, "
                               "toolkit=%s, pylab=%s" % (gui, self.pylab) )
                 if self.pylab:
                     activate(gui, import_all=self.pylab_import_all)
                 else:
                     activate(gui)
             except:
                 self.log.warn("Error in enabling GUI event loop integration:")
                 self.shell.showtraceback()
 
     def start(self):
         if self.subapp is not None:
             return self.subapp.start()
         # perform any prexec steps:
         if self.interact:
             self.log.debug("Starting IPython's mainloop...")
             self.shell.mainloop()
         else:
             self.log.debug("IPython not interactive...")
 
 
 def load_default_config(ipython_dir=None):
     """Load the default config file from the default ipython_dir.
 
     This is useful for embedded shells.
     """
     if ipython_dir is None:
         ipython_dir = get_ipython_dir()
     profile_dir = os.path.join(ipython_dir, 'profile_default')
     cl = PyFileConfigLoader(default_config_file_name, profile_dir)
     try:
         config = cl.load_config()
     except ConfigFileNotFound:
         # no config found
         config = Config()
     return config
 
 
 def launch_new_instance():
     """Create and run a full blown IPython instance"""
     app = TerminalIPythonApp.instance()
     app.initialize()
     app.start()
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     launch_new_instance()

IPython/testing/tools.py

@@ -1,402 +1,402 b''
 """Generic testing tools that do NOT depend on Twisted.
 
 In particular, this module exposes a set of top-level assert* functions that
 can be used in place of nose.tools.assert* in method generators (the ones in
 nose can not, at least as of nose 0.10.4).
 
 Note: our testing package contains testing.util, which does depend on Twisted
 and provides utilities for tests that manage Deferreds.  All testing support
 tools that only depend on nose, IPython or the standard library should go here
 instead.
 
 
 Authors
 -------
 - Fernando Perez <[e-mail]>
 """
 
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #  Copyright (C) 2009-2011  The IPython Development Team
 #
 #  Distributed under the terms of the BSD License.  The full license is in
 #  the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Imports
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 import os
 import re
 import sys
 import tempfile
 
 from contextlib import contextmanager
 from io import StringIO
 
 try:
     # These tools are used by parts of the runtime, so we make the nose
     # dependency optional at this point.  Nose is a hard dependency to run the
     # test suite, but NOT to use ipython itself.
     import nose.tools as nt
     has_nose = True
 except ImportError:
     has_nose = False
 
 from IPython.config.loader import Config
 from IPython.utils.process import find_cmd, getoutputerror
 from IPython.utils.text import list_strings, getdefaultencoding
 from IPython.utils.io import temp_pyfile, Tee
 from IPython.utils import py3compat
 
 from . import decorators as dec
 from . import skipdoctest
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Globals
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # Make a bunch of nose.tools assert wrappers that can be used in test
 # generators.  This will expose an assert* function for each one in nose.tools.
 
 _tpl = """
 def %(name)s(*a,**kw):
     return nt.%(name)s(*a,**kw)
 """
 
 if has_nose:
     for _x in [a for a in dir(nt) if a.startswith('assert')]:
         exec _tpl % dict(name=_x)
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Functions and classes
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # The docstring for full_path doctests differently on win32 (different path
 # separator) so just skip the doctest there.  The example remains informative.
 doctest_deco = skipdoctest.skip_doctest if sys.platform == 'win32' else dec.null_deco
 
 @doctest_deco
 def full_path(startPath,files):
     """Make full paths for all the listed files, based on startPath.
 
     Only the base part of startPath is kept, since this routine is typically
     used with a script's __file__ variable as startPath.  The base of startPath
     is then prepended to all the listed files, forming the output list.
 
     Parameters
     ----------
       startPath : string
         Initial path to use as the base for the results.  This path is split
       using os.path.split() and only its first component is kept.
 
       files : string or list
         One or more files.
 
     Examples
     --------
 
     >>> full_path('/foo/bar.py',['a.txt','b.txt'])
     ['/foo/a.txt', '/foo/b.txt']
 
     >>> full_path('/foo',['a.txt','b.txt'])
     ['/a.txt', '/b.txt']
 
     If a single file is given, the output is still a list:
     >>> full_path('/foo','a.txt')
     ['/a.txt']
     """
 
     files = list_strings(files)
     base = os.path.split(startPath)[0]
     return [ os.path.join(base,f) for f in files ]
 
 
 def parse_test_output(txt):
     """Parse the output of a test run and return errors, failures.
 
     Parameters
     ----------
     txt : str
       Text output of a test run, assumed to contain a line of one of the
       following forms::
         'FAILED (errors=1)'
         'FAILED (failures=1)'
         'FAILED (errors=1, failures=1)'
 
     Returns
     -------
     nerr, nfail: number of errors and failures.
     """
 
     err_m = re.search(r'^FAILED \(errors=(\d+)\)', txt, re.MULTILINE)
     if err_m:
         nerr = int(err_m.group(1))
         nfail = 0
         return  nerr, nfail
 
     fail_m = re.search(r'^FAILED \(failures=(\d+)\)', txt, re.MULTILINE)
     if fail_m:
         nerr = 0
         nfail = int(fail_m.group(1))
         return  nerr, nfail
 
     both_m = re.search(r'^FAILED \(errors=(\d+), failures=(\d+)\)', txt,
                        re.MULTILINE)
     if both_m:
         nerr = int(both_m.group(1))
         nfail = int(both_m.group(2))
         return  nerr, nfail
 
     # If the input didn't match any of these forms, assume no error/failures
     return 0, 0
 
 
 # So nose doesn't think this is a test
 parse_test_output.__test__ = False
 
 
 def default_argv():
     """Return a valid default argv for creating testing instances of ipython"""
 
     return ['--quick', # so no config file is loaded
             # Other defaults to minimize side effects on stdout
             '--colors=NoColor', '--no-term-title','--no-banner',
             '--autocall=0']
 
 
 def default_config():
     """Return a config object with good defaults for testing."""
     config = Config()
     config.TerminalInteractiveShell.colors = 'NoColor'
     config.TerminalTerminalInteractiveShell.term_title = False,
     config.TerminalInteractiveShell.autocall = 0
     config.HistoryManager.hist_file = tempfile.mktemp(u'test_hist.sqlite')
     config.HistoryManager.db_cache_size = 10000
     return config
 
 
 def ipexec(fname, options=None):
     """Utility to call 'ipython filename'.
 
     Starts IPython witha minimal and safe configuration to make startup as fast
     as possible.
 
     Note that this starts IPython in a subprocess!
 
     Parameters
     ----------
     fname : str
       Name of file to be executed (should have .py or .ipy extension).
 
     options : optional, list
       Extra command-line flags to be passed to IPython.
 
     Returns
     -------
     (stdout, stderr) of ipython subprocess.
     """
     if options is None: options = []
 
     # For these subprocess calls, eliminate all prompt printing so we only see
     # output from script execution
-    prompt_opts = [ '--InteractiveShell.prompt_in1=""',
-                    '--InteractiveShell.prompt_in2=""',
-                    '--InteractiveShell.prompt_out=""'
+    prompt_opts = [ '--PromptManager.in_template=""',
+                    '--PromptManager.in2_template=""',
+                    '--PromptManager.out_template=""'
     ]
     cmdargs = ' '.join(default_argv() + prompt_opts + options)
 
     _ip = get_ipython()
     test_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
 
     ipython_cmd = find_cmd('ipython3' if py3compat.PY3 else 'ipython')
     # Absolute path for filename
     full_fname = os.path.join(test_dir, fname)
     full_cmd = '%s %s %s' % (ipython_cmd, cmdargs, full_fname)
     #print >> sys.stderr, 'FULL CMD:', full_cmd # dbg
     out = getoutputerror(full_cmd)
     # `import readline` causes 'ESC[?1034h' to be the first output sometimes,
     # so strip that off the front of the first line if it is found
     if out:
         first = out[0]
         m = re.match(r'\x1b\[[^h]+h', first)
         if m:
             # strip initial readline escape
             out = list(out)
             out[0] = first[len(m.group()):]
             out = tuple(out)
     return out
 
 
 def ipexec_validate(fname, expected_out, expected_err='',
                     options=None):
     """Utility to call 'ipython filename' and validate output/error.
 
     This function raises an AssertionError if the validation fails.
 
     Note that this starts IPython in a subprocess!
 
     Parameters
     ----------
     fname : str
       Name of the file to be executed (should have .py or .ipy extension).
 
     expected_out : str
       Expected stdout of the process.
 
     expected_err : optional, str
       Expected stderr of the process.
 
     options : optional, list
       Extra command-line flags to be passed to IPython.
 
     Returns
     -------
     None
     """
 
     import nose.tools as nt
 
     out, err = ipexec(fname, options)
     #print 'OUT', out  # dbg
     #print 'ERR', err  # dbg
     # If there are any errors, we must check those befor stdout, as they may be
     # more informative than simply having an empty stdout.
     if err:
         if expected_err:
             nt.assert_equals(err.strip(), expected_err.strip())
         else:
             raise ValueError('Running file %r produced error: %r' %
                              (fname, err))
     # If no errors or output on stderr was expected, match stdout
     nt.assert_equals(out.strip(), expected_out.strip())
 
 
 class TempFileMixin(object):
     """Utility class to create temporary Python/IPython files.
 
     Meant as a mixin class for test cases."""
 
     def mktmp(self, src, ext='.py'):
         """Make a valid python temp file."""
         fname, f = temp_pyfile(src, ext)
         self.tmpfile = f
         self.fname = fname
 
     def tearDown(self):
         if hasattr(self, 'tmpfile'):
             # If the tmpfile wasn't made because of skipped tests, like in
             # win32, there's nothing to cleanup.
             self.tmpfile.close()
             try:
                 os.unlink(self.fname)
             except:
                 # On Windows, even though we close the file, we still can't
                 # delete it.  I have no clue why
                 pass
 
 pair_fail_msg = ("Testing {0}\n\n"
                 "In:\n"
                 "  {1!r}\n"
                 "Expected:\n"
                 "  {2!r}\n"
                 "Got:\n"
                 "  {3!r}\n")
 def check_pairs(func, pairs):
     """Utility function for the common case of checking a function with a
     sequence of input/output pairs.
 
     Parameters
     ----------
     func : callable
       The function to be tested. Should accept a single argument.
     pairs : iterable
       A list of (input, expected_output) tuples.
 
     Returns
     -------
     None. Raises an AssertionError if any output does not match the expected
     value.
     """
     name = getattr(func, "func_name", getattr(func, "__name__", "<unknown>"))
     for inp, expected in pairs:
         out = func(inp)
         assert out == expected, pair_fail_msg.format(name, inp, expected, out)
 
 
 if py3compat.PY3:
     MyStringIO = StringIO
 else:
     # In Python 2, stdout/stderr can have either bytes or unicode written to them,
     # so we need a class that can handle both.
     class MyStringIO(StringIO):
         def write(self, s):
             s = py3compat.cast_unicode(s, encoding=getdefaultencoding())
             super(MyStringIO, self).write(s)
 
 notprinted_msg = """Did not find {0!r} in printed output (on {1}):
 {2!r}"""
 
 class AssertPrints(object):
     """Context manager for testing that code prints certain text.
     
     Examples
     --------
     >>> with AssertPrints("abc", suppress=False):
     ...     print "abcd"
     ...     print "def"
     ... 
     abcd
     def
     """
     def __init__(self, s, channel='stdout', suppress=True):
         self.s = s
         self.channel = channel
         self.suppress = suppress
     
     def __enter__(self):
         self.orig_stream = getattr(sys, self.channel)
         self.buffer = MyStringIO()
         self.tee = Tee(self.buffer, channel=self.channel)
         setattr(sys, self.channel, self.buffer if self.suppress else self.tee)
     
     def __exit__(self, etype, value, traceback):
         self.tee.flush()
         setattr(sys, self.channel, self.orig_stream)
         printed = self.buffer.getvalue()
         assert self.s in printed, notprinted_msg.format(self.s, self.channel, printed)
         return False
     
 class AssertNotPrints(AssertPrints):
     """Context manager for checking that certain output *isn't* produced.
     
     Counterpart of AssertPrints"""
     def __exit__(self, etype, value, traceback):
         self.tee.flush()
         setattr(sys, self.channel, self.orig_stream)
         printed = self.buffer.getvalue()
         assert self.s not in printed, notprinted_msg.format(self.s, self.channel, printed)
         return False
 
 @contextmanager
 def mute_warn():
     from IPython.utils import warn
     save_warn = warn.warn
     warn.warn = lambda *a, **kw: None
     try:
         yield
     finally:
         warn.warn = save_warn
 
 @contextmanager
 def make_tempfile(name):
     """ Create an empty, named, temporary file for the duration of the context.
     """
     f = open(name, 'w')
     f.close()
     try:
         yield
     finally:
         os.unlink(name)

docs/examples/core/example-embed.py

@@ -1,137 +1,137 b''
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 
 """An example of how to embed an IPython shell into a running program.
 
 Please see the documentation in the IPython.Shell module for more details.
 
 The accompanying file example-embed-short.py has quick code fragments for
 embedding which you can cut and paste in your code once you understand how
 things work.
 
 The code in this file is deliberately extra-verbose, meant for learning."""
 
 # The basics to get you going:
 
 # IPython sets the __IPYTHON__ variable so you can know if you have nested
 # copies running.
 
 # Try running this code both at the command line and from inside IPython (with
 # %run example-embed.py)
 from IPython.config.loader import Config
 try:
     get_ipython
 except NameError:
     nested = 0
     cfg = Config()
-    shell_config = cfg.InteractiveShellEmbed
-    shell_config.prompt_in1 = 'In <\\#>: '
-    shell_config.prompt_in2 = '   .\\D.: '
-    shell_config.prompt_out = 'Out<\\#>: '
+    prompt_config = cfg.PromptManager
+    prompt_config.in_template = 'In <\\#>: '
+    prompt_config.in2_template = '   .\\D.: '
+    prompt_config.out_template = 'Out<\\#>: '
 else:
     print "Running nested copies of IPython."
     print "The prompts for the nested copy have been modified"
     cfg = Config()
     nested = 1
 
 # First import the embeddable shell class
 from IPython.frontend.terminal.embed import InteractiveShellEmbed
 
 # Now create an instance of the embeddable shell. The first argument is a
 # string with options exactly as you would type them if you were starting
 # IPython at the system command line. Any parameters you want to define for
 # configuration can thus be specified here.
 ipshell = InteractiveShellEmbed(config=cfg,
                        banner1 = 'Dropping into IPython',
                        exit_msg = 'Leaving Interpreter, back to program.')
 
 # Make a second instance, you can have as many as you want.
 cfg2 = cfg.copy()
-shell_config = cfg2.InteractiveShellEmbed
-shell_config.prompt_in1 = 'In2<\\#>: '
+prompt_config = cfg2.PromptManager
+prompt_config.in_template = 'In2<\\#>: '
 if not nested:
-    shell_config.prompt_in1 = 'In2<\\#>: '
-    shell_config.prompt_in2 = '   .\\D.: '
-    shell_config.prompt_out = 'Out<\\#>: '
+    prompt_config.in_template = 'In2<\\#>: '
+    prompt_config.in2_template = '   .\\D.: '
+    prompt_config.out_template = 'Out<\\#>: '
 ipshell2 = InteractiveShellEmbed(config=cfg,
                         banner1 = 'Second IPython instance.')
 
 print '\nHello. This is printed from the main controller program.\n'
 
 # You can then call ipshell() anywhere you need it (with an optional
 # message):
 ipshell('***Called from top level. '
         'Hit Ctrl-D to exit interpreter and continue program.\n'
         'Note that if you use %kill_embedded, you can fully deactivate\n'
         'This embedded instance so it will never turn on again')
 
 print '\nBack in caller program, moving along...\n'
 
 #---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # More details:
 
 # InteractiveShellEmbed instances don't print the standard system banner and
 # messages. The IPython banner (which actually may contain initialization
 # messages) is available as get_ipython().banner in case you want it.
 
 # InteractiveShellEmbed instances print the following information everytime they
 # start:
 
 # - A global startup banner.
 
 # - A call-specific header string, which you can use to indicate where in the
 # execution flow the shell is starting.
 
 # They also print an exit message every time they exit.
 
 # Both the startup banner and the exit message default to None, and can be set
 # either at the instance constructor or at any other time with the
 # by setting the banner and exit_msg attributes.
 
 # The shell instance can be also put in 'dummy' mode globally or on a per-call
 # basis. This gives you fine control for debugging without having to change
 # code all over the place.
 
 # The code below illustrates all this.
 
 
 # This is how the global banner and exit_msg can be reset at any point
 ipshell.banner = 'Entering interpreter - New Banner'
 ipshell.exit_msg = 'Leaving interpreter - New exit_msg'
 
 def foo(m):
     s = 'spam'
     ipshell('***In foo(). Try %whos, or print s or m:')
     print 'foo says m = ',m
 
 def bar(n):
     s = 'eggs'
     ipshell('***In bar(). Try %whos, or print s or n:')
     print 'bar says n = ',n
     
 # Some calls to the above functions which will trigger IPython:
 print 'Main program calling foo("eggs")\n'
 foo('eggs')
 
 # The shell can be put in 'dummy' mode where calls to it silently return. This
 # allows you, for example, to globally turn off debugging for a program with a
 # single call.
 ipshell.dummy_mode = True
 print '\nTrying to call IPython which is now "dummy":'
 ipshell()
 print 'Nothing happened...'
 # The global 'dummy' mode can still be overridden for a single call
 print '\nOverriding dummy mode manually:'
 ipshell(dummy=False)
 
 # Reactivate the IPython shell
 ipshell.dummy_mode = False
 
 print 'You can even have multiple embedded instances:'
 ipshell2()
 
 print '\nMain program calling bar("spam")\n'
 bar('spam')
 
 print 'Main program finished. Bye!'
 
 #********************** End of file <example-embed.py> ***********************

docs/source/interactive/reference.txt

@@ -1,1263 +1,1263 b''
 =================
 IPython reference
 =================
 
 .. _command_line_options:
 
 Command-line usage
 ==================
 
 You start IPython with the command::
 
     $ ipython [options] files
 
 .. note::
 
   For IPython on Python 3, use ``ipython3`` in place of ``ipython``.
 
 If invoked with no options, it executes all the files listed in sequence
 and drops you into the interpreter while still acknowledging any options
 you may have set in your ipython_config.py. This behavior is different from
 standard Python, which when called as python -i will only execute one
 file and ignore your configuration setup.
 
 Please note that some of the configuration options are not available at
 the command line, simply because they are not practical here. Look into
 your configuration files for details on those. There are separate configuration 
 files for each profile, and the files look like "ipython_config.py" or 
 "ipython_config_<frontendname>.py".  Profile directories look like 
 "profile_profilename" and are typically installed in the IPYTHON_DIR directory. 
 For Linux users, this will be $HOME/.config/ipython, and for other users it 
 will be $HOME/.ipython.  For Windows users, $HOME resolves to C:\\Documents and
 Settings\\YourUserName in most instances.
 
 
 Eventloop integration
 ---------------------
 
 Previously IPython had command line options for controlling GUI event loop
 integration (-gthread, -qthread, -q4thread, -wthread, -pylab). As of IPython
 version 0.11, these have been removed. Please see the new ``%gui``
 magic command or :ref:`this section <gui_support>` for details on the new
 interface, or specify the gui at the commandline::
 
     $ ipython --gui=qt
 
 
 Regular Options
 ---------------
 
 After the above threading options have been given, regular options can
 follow in any order. All options can be abbreviated to their shortest
 non-ambiguous form and are case-sensitive.
 
 Most options can also be set from your configuration file. See the provided
 example for more details on what the options do. Options given at the command
 line override the values set in the configuration file.
 
 All options with a [no] prepended can be specified in negated form
 (--no-option instead of --option) to turn the feature off.
 
     ``-h, --help``  print a help message and exit.
 
     ``--pylab, pylab=<name>``
     See :ref:`Matplotlib support <matplotlib_support>`
     for more details.
 
     ``--autocall=<val>``
 	Make IPython automatically call any callable object even if you
 	didn't type explicit parentheses. For example, 'str 43' becomes
 	'str(43)' automatically. The value can be '0' to disable the feature,
 	'1' for smart autocall, where it is not applied if there are no more
 	arguments on the line, and '2' for full autocall, where all callable
 	objects are automatically called (even if no arguments are
 	present). The default is '1'.
 
     ``--[no-]autoindent``
 	Turn automatic indentation on/off.
 
     ``--[no-]automagic``
 	make magic commands automatic (without needing their first character
 	to be %). Type %magic at the IPython prompt for more information.
 
     ``--[no-]autoedit_syntax``
 	When a syntax error occurs after editing a file, automatically
 	open the file to the trouble causing line for convenient
 	fixing.
 
     ``--[no-]banner``
 	Print the initial information banner (default on).
 
     ``-c <command>``
 	execute the given command string. This is similar to the -c
 	option in the normal Python interpreter.
 
     ``--cache-size=<n>``
 	size of the output cache (maximum number of entries to hold in
 	memory). The default is 1000, you can change it permanently in your
 	config file. Setting it to 0 completely disables the caching system,
 	and the minimum value accepted is 20 (if you provide a value less than
 	20, it is reset to 0 and a warning is issued) This limit is defined
 	because otherwise you'll spend more time re-flushing a too small cache
 	than working.
 
     ``--classic``
 	Gives IPython a similar feel to the classic Python
 	prompt.
 
     ``--colors=<scheme>``
 	Color scheme for prompts and exception reporting. Currently
 	implemented: NoColor, Linux and LightBG.
 
     ``--[no-]color_info``
 	IPython can display information about objects via a set of functions,
 	and optionally can use colors for this, syntax highlighting source
 	code and various other elements.  However, because this information is
 	passed through a pager (like 'less') and many pagers get confused with
 	color codes, this option is off by default. You can test it and turn
 	it on permanently in your configuration file if it works for you. As a
 	reference, the 'less' pager supplied with Mandrake 8.2 works ok, but
 	that in RedHat 7.2 doesn't.
 
 	Test it and turn it on permanently if it works with your
 	system. The magic function %color_info allows you to toggle this
 	interactively for testing.
 
     ``--[no-]debug``
 	Show information about the loading process. Very useful to pin down
 	problems with your configuration files or to get details about
 	session restores.
 
     ``--[no-]deep_reload``
 	IPython can use the deep_reload module which reloads changes in
 	modules recursively (it replaces the reload() function, so you don't
 	need to change anything to use it).  deep_reload() forces a full
 	reload of modules whose code may have changed, which the default
 	reload() function does not.
 
 	When deep_reload is off, IPython will use the normal reload(),
 	but deep_reload will still be available as dreload(). This
 	feature is off by default [which means that you have both
 	normal reload() and dreload()].
 
 .. this isn't currently working
 ..    ``--editor=<name>``
 	Which editor to use with the %edit command. By default,
 	IPython will honor your EDITOR environment variable (if not
 	set, vi is the Unix default and notepad the Windows one).
 	Since this editor is invoked on the fly by IPython and is
 	meant for editing small code snippets, you may want to use a
 	small, lightweight editor here (in case your default EDITOR is
 	something like Emacs).
 
     ``--ipython_dir=<name>``
 	name of your IPython configuration directory IPYTHON_DIR. This
 	can also be specified through the environment variable
 	IPYTHON_DIR.
 
     ``--logfile=<name>``
         specify the name of your logfile.
         
         This implies ``%logstart`` at the beginning of your session
         
         generate a log file of all input. The file is named
         ipython_log.py in your current directory (which prevents logs
         from multiple IPython sessions from trampling each other). You
         can use this to later restore a session by loading your
         logfile with ``ipython -i ipython_log.py``
 
     ``--logplay=<name>``
     
       NOT AVAILABLE in 0.11
 
       you can replay a previous log. For restoring a session as close as
       possible to the state you left it in, use this option (don't just run
       the logfile). With -logplay, IPython will try to reconstruct the
       previous working environment in full, not just execute the commands in
       the logfile.
 
       When a session is restored, logging is automatically turned on
       again with the name of the logfile it was invoked with (it is
       read from the log header). So once you've turned logging on for
       a session, you can quit IPython and reload it as many times as
       you want and it will continue to log its history and restore
       from the beginning every time.
       
       Caveats: there are limitations in this option. The history
       variables _i*,_* and _dh don't get restored properly. In the
       future we will try to implement full session saving by writing
       and retrieving a 'snapshot' of the memory state of IPython. But
       our first attempts failed because of inherent limitations of
       Python's Pickle module, so this may have to wait.
 
     ``--[no-]messages``
 	Print messages which IPython collects about its startup
 	process (default on).
 
     ``--[no-]pdb``
 	Automatically call the pdb debugger after every uncaught
 	exception. If you are used to debugging using pdb, this puts
 	you automatically inside of it after any call (either in
 	IPython or in code called by it) which triggers an exception
 	which goes uncaught.
 
     ``--[no-]pprint``
 	ipython can optionally use the pprint (pretty printer) module
 	for displaying results. pprint tends to give a nicer display
 	of nested data structures. If you like it, you can turn it on
 	permanently in your config file (default off).
 
     ``--profile=<name>``
 
 	Select the IPython profile by name.
     
 	This is a quick way to keep and load multiple
 	config files for different tasks, especially if you use the
 	include option of config files. You can keep a basic
 	:file:`IPYTHON_DIR/profile_default/ipython_config.py` file 
 	and then have other 'profiles' which
 	include this one and load extra things for particular
 	tasks. For example:
 
 	1. $IPYTHON_DIR/profile_default : load basic things you always want.
 	2. $IPYTHON_DIR/profile_math : load (1) and basic math-related modules.
 	3. $IPYTHON_DIR/profile_numeric : load (1) and Numeric and plotting modules.
 
 	Since it is possible to create an endless loop by having
 	circular file inclusions, IPython will stop if it reaches 15
 	recursive inclusions.
 
-    ``InteractiveShell.prompt_in1=<string>``
+    ``PromptManager.in_template=<string>``
 
 	Specify the string used for input prompts. Note that if you are using
 	numbered prompts, the number is represented with a '\#' in the
 	string. Don't forget to quote strings with spaces embedded in
 	them. Default: 'In [\#]:'.  The :ref:`prompts section <prompts>`
 	discusses in detail all the available escapes to customize your
 	prompts.
 
-    ``InteractiveShell.prompt_in2=<string>``
+    ``PromptManager.in2_template=<string>``
 	Similar to the previous option, but used for the continuation
 	prompts. The special sequence '\D' is similar to '\#', but
 	with all digits replaced dots (so you can have your
 	continuation prompt aligned with your input prompt).  Default:
 	' .\D.:' (note three spaces at the start for alignment with
 	'In [\#]').
 
-    ``InteractiveShell.prompt_out=<string>``
+    ``PromptManager.out_template=<string>``
 	String used for output prompts, also uses numbers like
-	prompt_in1. Default: 'Out[\#]:'
+	in_template. Default: 'Out[\#]:'
 
     ``--quick``
         start in bare bones mode (no config file loaded).
 
     ``config_file=<name>``
 	name of your IPython resource configuration file. Normally
 	IPython loads ipython_config.py (from current directory) or
 	IPYTHON_DIR/profile_default.
 
 	If the loading of your config file fails, IPython starts with
 	a bare bones configuration (no modules loaded at all).
 
     ``--[no-]readline``
 	use the readline library, which is needed to support name
 	completion and command history, among other things.  It is
 	enabled by default, but may cause problems for users of
 	X/Emacs in Python comint or shell buffers.
 
 	Note that X/Emacs 'eterm' buffers (opened with M-x term) support
 	IPython's readline and syntax coloring fine, only 'emacs' (M-x
 	shell and C-c !) buffers do not.
 
     ``--TerminalInteractiveShell.screen_length=<n>``
 	number of lines of your screen. This is used to control
 	printing of very long strings. Strings longer than this number
 	of lines will be sent through a pager instead of directly
 	printed.
 
 	The default value for this is 0, which means IPython will
 	auto-detect your screen size every time it needs to print certain
 	potentially long strings (this doesn't change the behavior of the
 	'print' keyword, it's only triggered internally). If for some
 	reason this isn't working well (it needs curses support), specify
 	it yourself. Otherwise don't change the default.
 
     ``--TerminalInteractiveShell.separate_in=<string>``
 
 	separator before input prompts.
 	Default: '\n'
 
     ``--TerminalInteractiveShell.separate_out=<string>``
         separator before output prompts.
         Default: nothing.
 
     ``--TerminalInteractiveShell.separate_out2=<string>``
 	separator after output prompts.
 	Default: nothing.
 	For these three options, use the value 0 to specify no separator.
 
     ``--nosep``
 	shorthand for setting the above separators to empty strings.
 	
 	Simply removes all input/output separators.
 
     ``--init``
 	allows you to initialize a profile dir for configuration when you
 	install a new version of IPython or want to use a new profile.
 	Since new versions may include new command line options or example
 	files, this copies updated config files. Note that you should probably
 	use %upgrade instead,it's a safer alternative.
 
     ``--version``    print version information and exit.
 
     ``--xmode=<modename>``
 
 	Mode for exception reporting.
 
 	Valid modes: Plain, Context and Verbose.
 
 	* Plain: similar to python's normal traceback printing.
 	* Context: prints 5 lines of context source code around each
 	  line in the traceback.
 	* Verbose: similar to Context, but additionally prints the
 	  variables currently visible where the exception happened
 	  (shortening their strings if too long). This can potentially be
 	  very slow, if you happen to have a huge data structure whose
 	  string representation is complex to compute. Your computer may
 	  appear to freeze for a while with cpu usage at 100%. If this
 	  occurs, you can cancel the traceback with Ctrl-C (maybe hitting it
 	  more than once).
 
 Interactive use
 ===============
 
 IPython is meant to work as a drop-in replacement for the standard interactive
 interpreter. As such, any code which is valid python should execute normally
 under IPython (cases where this is not true should be reported as bugs). It
 does, however, offer many features which are not available at a standard python
 prompt. What follows is a list of these.
 
 
 Caution for Windows users
 -------------------------
 
 Windows, unfortunately, uses the '\\' character as a path separator. This is a
 terrible choice, because '\\' also represents the escape character in most
 modern programming languages, including Python. For this reason, using '/'
 character is recommended if you have problems with ``\``.  However, in Windows
 commands '/' flags options, so you can not use it for the root directory. This
 means that paths beginning at the root must be typed in a contrived manner
 like: ``%copy \opt/foo/bar.txt \tmp``
 
 .. _magic:
 
 Magic command system
 --------------------
 
 IPython will treat any line whose first character is a % as a special
 call to a 'magic' function. These allow you to control the behavior of
 IPython itself, plus a lot of system-type features. They are all
 prefixed with a % character, but parameters are given without
 parentheses or quotes.
 
 Example: typing ``%cd mydir`` changes your working directory to 'mydir', if it
 exists.
 
 If you have 'automagic' enabled (as it by default), you don't need
 to type in the % explicitly. IPython will scan its internal list of
 magic functions and call one if it exists. With automagic on you can
 then just type ``cd mydir`` to go to directory 'mydir'. The automagic
 system has the lowest possible precedence in name searches, so defining
 an identifier with the same name as an existing magic function will
 shadow it for automagic use. You can still access the shadowed magic
 function by explicitly using the % character at the beginning of the line.
 
 An example (with automagic on) should clarify all this:
 
 .. sourcecode:: ipython
 
     In [1]: cd ipython     # %cd is called by automagic
     /home/fperez/ipython
 
     In [2]: cd=1 	   # now cd is just a variable
 
     In [3]: cd .. 	   # and doesn't work as a function anymore
     File "<ipython-input-3-9fedb3aff56c>", line 1
       cd ..
           ^
     SyntaxError: invalid syntax
 
 
     In [4]: %cd .. 	   # but %cd always works
     /home/fperez
 
     In [5]: del cd     # if you remove the cd variable, automagic works again
 
     In [6]: cd ipython
 
     /home/fperez/ipython
 
 You can define your own magic functions to extend the system. The
 following example defines a new magic command, %impall:
 
 .. sourcecode:: python
 
     ip = get_ipython()
 
     def doimp(self, arg):
         ip = self.api
         ip.ex("import %s; reload(%s); from %s import *" % (arg,arg,arg) )
 
     ip.define_magic('impall', doimp)
 
 Type ``%magic`` for more information, including a list of all available magic
 functions at any time and their docstrings. You can also type
 ``%magic_function_name?`` (see :ref:`below <dynamic_object_info>` for information on
 the '?' system) to get information about any particular magic function you are
 interested in.
 
 The API documentation for the :mod:`IPython.core.magic` module contains the full
 docstrings of all currently available magic commands.
 
 
 Access to the standard Python help
 ----------------------------------
 
 Simply type ``help()`` to access Python's standard help system. You can
 also type ``help(object)`` for information about a given object, or
 ``help('keyword')`` for information on a keyword. You may need to configure your
 PYTHONDOCS environment variable for this feature to work correctly.
 
 .. _dynamic_object_info:
 
 Dynamic object information
 --------------------------
 
 Typing ``?word`` or ``word?`` prints detailed information about an object. If
 certain strings in the object are too long (e.g. function signatures) they get
 snipped in the center for brevity. This system gives access variable types and
 values, docstrings, function prototypes and other useful information.
 
 If the information will not fit in the terminal, it is displayed in a pager
 (``less`` if available, otherwise a basic internal pager).
 
 Typing ``??word`` or ``word??`` gives access to the full information, including
 the source code where possible. Long strings are not snipped.
 
 The following magic functions are particularly useful for gathering
 information about your working environment. You can get more details by
 typing ``%magic`` or querying them individually (``%function_name?``);
 this is just a summary:
 
     * **%pdoc <object>**: Print (or run through a pager if too long) the
       docstring for an object. If the given object is a class, it will
       print both the class and the constructor docstrings.
     * **%pdef <object>**: Print the definition header for any callable
       object. If the object is a class, print the constructor information.
     * **%psource <object>**: Print (or run through a pager if too long)
       the source code for an object.
     * **%pfile <object>**: Show the entire source file where an object was
       defined via a pager, opening it at the line where the object
       definition begins.
     * **%who/%whos**: These functions give information about identifiers
       you have defined interactively (not things you loaded or defined
       in your configuration files). %who just prints a list of
       identifiers and %whos prints a table with some basic details about
       each identifier.
 
 Note that the dynamic object information functions (?/??, ``%pdoc``,
 ``%pfile``, ``%pdef``, ``%psource``) work on object attributes, as well as
 directly on variables. For example, after doing ``import os``, you can use
 ``os.path.abspath??``.
 
 .. _readline:
 
 Readline-based features
 -----------------------
 
 These features require the GNU readline library, so they won't work if your
 Python installation lacks readline support. We will first describe the default
 behavior IPython uses, and then how to change it to suit your preferences.
 
 
 Command line completion
 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 
 At any time, hitting TAB will complete any available python commands or
 variable names, and show you a list of the possible completions if
 there's no unambiguous one. It will also complete filenames in the
 current directory if no python names match what you've typed so far.
 
 
 Search command history
 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 
 IPython provides two ways for searching through previous input and thus
 reduce the need for repetitive typing:
 
    1. Start typing, and then use Ctrl-p (previous,up) and Ctrl-n
       (next,down) to search through only the history items that match
       what you've typed so far. If you use Ctrl-p/Ctrl-n at a blank
       prompt, they just behave like normal arrow keys.
    2. Hit Ctrl-r: opens a search prompt. Begin typing and the system
       searches your history for lines that contain what you've typed so
       far, completing as much as it can.
 
 
 Persistent command history across sessions
 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 
 IPython will save your input history when it leaves and reload it next
 time you restart it. By default, the history file is named
 $IPYTHON_DIR/profile_<name>/history.sqlite. This allows you to keep
 separate histories related to various tasks: commands related to
 numerical work will not be clobbered by a system shell history, for
 example.
 
 
 Autoindent
 ++++++++++
 
 IPython can recognize lines ending in ':' and indent the next line,
 while also un-indenting automatically after 'raise' or 'return'.
 
 This feature uses the readline library, so it will honor your
 :file:`~/.inputrc` configuration (or whatever file your INPUTRC variable points
 to). Adding the following lines to your :file:`.inputrc` file can make
 indenting/unindenting more convenient (M-i indents, M-u unindents)::
 
     $if Python 
     "\M-i": "    "  
     "\M-u": "\d\d\d\d"  
     $endif
 
 Note that there are 4 spaces between the quote marks after "M-i" above.
 
 .. warning::
 
     Setting the above indents will cause problems with unicode text entry in
     the terminal.
 
 .. warning::
 
     Autoindent is ON by default, but it can cause problems with the pasting of
     multi-line indented code (the pasted code gets re-indented on each line). A
     magic function %autoindent allows you to toggle it on/off at runtime. You
     can also disable it permanently on in your :file:`ipython_config.py` file
     (set TerminalInteractiveShell.autoindent=False).
     
     If you want to paste multiple lines in the terminal, it is recommended that
     you use ``%paste``.
 
 
 Customizing readline behavior
 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 
 All these features are based on the GNU readline library, which has an
 extremely customizable interface. Normally, readline is configured via a
 file which defines the behavior of the library; the details of the
 syntax for this can be found in the readline documentation available
 with your system or on the Internet. IPython doesn't read this file (if
 it exists) directly, but it does support passing to readline valid
 options via a simple interface. In brief, you can customize readline by
 setting the following options in your configuration file (note
 that these options can not be specified at the command line):
 
     * **readline_parse_and_bind**: this holds a list of strings to be executed
       via a readline.parse_and_bind() command. The syntax for valid commands
       of this kind can be found by reading the documentation for the GNU
       readline library, as these commands are of the kind which readline
       accepts in its configuration file.
     * **readline_remove_delims**: a string of characters to be removed
       from the default word-delimiters list used by readline, so that
       completions may be performed on strings which contain them. Do not
       change the default value unless you know what you're doing.
 
 You will find the default values in your configuration file.
 
 
 Session logging and restoring
 -----------------------------
 
 You can log all input from a session either by starting IPython with the
 command line switch ``--logfile=foo.py`` (see :ref:`here <command_line_options>`)
 or by activating the logging at any moment with the magic function %logstart.
 
 Log files can later be reloaded by running them as scripts and IPython
 will attempt to 'replay' the log by executing all the lines in it, thus
 restoring the state of a previous session. This feature is not quite
 perfect, but can still be useful in many cases.
 
 The log files can also be used as a way to have a permanent record of
 any code you wrote while experimenting. Log files are regular text files
 which you can later open in your favorite text editor to extract code or
 to 'clean them up' before using them to replay a session.
 
 The `%logstart` function for activating logging in mid-session is used as
 follows::
 
     %logstart [log_name [log_mode]]
 
 If no name is given, it defaults to a file named 'ipython_log.py' in your
 current working directory, in 'rotate' mode (see below).
 
 '%logstart name' saves to file 'name' in 'backup' mode. It saves your
 history up to that point and then continues logging.
 
 %logstart takes a second optional parameter: logging mode. This can be
 one of (note that the modes are given unquoted):
 
     * [over:] overwrite existing log_name.
     * [backup:] rename (if exists) to log_name~ and start log_name.
     * [append:] well, that says it.
     * [rotate:] create rotating logs log_name.1~, log_name.2~, etc.
 
 The %logoff and %logon functions allow you to temporarily stop and
 resume logging to a file which had previously been started with
 %logstart. They will fail (with an explanation) if you try to use them
 before logging has been started.
 
 .. _system_shell_access:
 
 System shell access
 -------------------
 
 Any input line beginning with a ! character is passed verbatim (minus
 the !, of course) to the underlying operating system. For example,
 typing ``!ls`` will run 'ls' in the current directory.
 
 Manual capture of command output
 --------------------------------
 
 You can assign the result of a system command to a Python variable with the
 syntax ``myfiles = !ls``. This gets machine readable output from stdout 
 (e.g. without colours), and splits on newlines. To explicitly get this sort of
 output without assigning to a variable, use two exclamation marks (``!!ls``) or
 the ``%sx`` magic command.
 
 The captured list has some convenience features. ``myfiles.n`` or ``myfiles.s``
 returns a string delimited by newlines or spaces, respectively. ``myfiles.p``
 produces `path objects <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/path.py>`_ from the list items.
 See :ref:`string_lists` for details.
 
 IPython also allows you to expand the value of python variables when
 making system calls. Wrap variables or expressions in {braces}::
 
     In [1]: pyvar = 'Hello world' 
     In [2]: !echo "A python variable: {pyvar}"  
     A python variable: Hello world
     In [3]: import math
     In [4]: x = 8
     In [5]: !echo {math.factorial(x)}
     40320
 
 For simple cases, you can alternatively prepend $ to a variable name::
 
     In [6]: !echo $sys.argv  
     [/home/fperez/usr/bin/ipython]
     In [7]: !echo "A system variable: $$HOME"  # Use $$ for literal $
     A system variable: /home/fperez
 
 System command aliases
 ----------------------
 
 The %alias magic function allows you to define magic functions which are in fact
 system shell commands. These aliases can have parameters.
 
 ``%alias alias_name cmd`` defines 'alias_name' as an alias for 'cmd'
 
 Then, typing ``alias_name params`` will execute the system command 'cmd
 params' (from your underlying operating system).
 
 You can also define aliases with parameters using %s specifiers (one per
 parameter). The following example defines the parts function as an
 alias to the command 'echo first %s second %s' where each %s will be
 replaced by a positional parameter to the call to %parts::
 
     In [1]: %alias parts echo first %s second %s
     In [2]: parts A B
     first A second B
     In [3]: parts A  
     ERROR: Alias <parts> requires 2 arguments, 1 given.
 
 If called with no parameters, %alias prints the table of currently
 defined aliases.
 
 The %rehashx magic allows you to load your entire $PATH as
 ipython aliases. See its docstring for further details.
 
 
 .. _dreload:
 
 Recursive reload
 ----------------
 
 The :mod:`IPython.lib.deepreload` module allows you to recursively reload a
 module: changes made to any of its dependencies will be reloaded without
 having to exit. To start using it, do::
 
     from IPython.lib.deepreload import reload as dreload
 
 
 Verbose and colored exception traceback printouts
 -------------------------------------------------
 
 IPython provides the option to see very detailed exception tracebacks,
 which can be especially useful when debugging large programs. You can
 run any Python file with the %run function to benefit from these
 detailed tracebacks. Furthermore, both normal and verbose tracebacks can
 be colored (if your terminal supports it) which makes them much easier
 to parse visually.
 
 See the magic xmode and colors functions for details (just type %magic).
 
 These features are basically a terminal version of Ka-Ping Yee's cgitb
 module, now part of the standard Python library.
 
 
 .. _input_caching:
 
 Input caching system
 --------------------
 
 IPython offers numbered prompts (In/Out) with input and output caching
 (also referred to as 'input history'). All input is saved and can be 
 retrieved as variables (besides the usual arrow key recall), in 
 addition to the %rep magic command that brings a history entry
 up for editing on the next  command line.
 
 The following GLOBAL variables always exist (so don't overwrite them!):
 
 * _i, _ii, _iii: store previous, next previous and next-next previous inputs.
 * In, _ih : a list of all inputs; _ih[n] is the input from line n. If you
   overwrite In with a variable of your own, you can remake the assignment to the
   internal list with a simple ``In=_ih``.
 
 Additionally, global variables named _i<n> are dynamically created (<n>
 being the prompt counter), so ``_i<n> == _ih[<n>] == In[<n>]``.
 
 For example, what you typed at prompt 14 is available as _i14, _ih[14]
 and In[14].
 
 This allows you to easily cut and paste multi line interactive prompts
 by printing them out: they print like a clean string, without prompt
 characters. You can also manipulate them like regular variables (they
 are strings), modify or exec them (typing ``exec _i9`` will re-execute the
 contents of input prompt 9.
 
 You can also re-execute multiple lines of input easily by using the
 magic %rerun or %macro functions. The macro system also allows you to re-execute
 previous lines which include magic function calls (which require special
 processing). Type %macro? for more details on the macro system.
 
 A history function %hist allows you to see any part of your input
 history by printing a range of the _i variables.
 
 You can also search ('grep') through your history by typing 
 ``%hist -g somestring``. This is handy for searching for URLs, IP addresses,
 etc. You can bring history entries listed by '%hist -g' up for editing
 with the %recall command, or run them immediately with %rerun.
 
 .. _output_caching:
 
 Output caching system
 ---------------------
 
 For output that is returned from actions, a system similar to the input
 cache exists but using _ instead of _i. Only actions that produce a
 result (NOT assignments, for example) are cached. If you are familiar
 with Mathematica, IPython's _ variables behave exactly like
 Mathematica's % variables.
 
 The following GLOBAL variables always exist (so don't overwrite them!):
 
     * [_] (a single underscore) : stores previous output, like Python's
       default interpreter.
     * [__] (two underscores): next previous.
     * [___] (three underscores): next-next previous.
 
 Additionally, global variables named _<n> are dynamically created (<n>
 being the prompt counter), such that the result of output <n> is always
 available as _<n> (don't use the angle brackets, just the number, e.g.
 _21).
 
 These variables are also stored in a global dictionary (not a
 list, since it only has entries for lines which returned a result)
 available under the names _oh and Out (similar to _ih and In). So the
 output from line 12 can be obtained as _12, Out[12] or _oh[12]. If you
 accidentally overwrite the Out variable you can recover it by typing
 'Out=_oh' at the prompt.
 
 This system obviously can potentially put heavy memory demands on your
 system, since it prevents Python's garbage collector from removing any
 previously computed results. You can control how many results are kept
 in memory with the option (at the command line or in your configuration
 file) cache_size. If you set it to 0, the whole system is completely
 disabled and the prompts revert to the classic '>>>' of normal Python.
 
 
 Directory history
 -----------------
 
 Your history of visited directories is kept in the global list _dh, and
 the magic %cd command can be used to go to any entry in that list. The
 %dhist command allows you to view this history. Do ``cd -<TAB>`` to
 conveniently view the directory history.
 
 
 Automatic parentheses and quotes
 --------------------------------
 
 These features were adapted from Nathan Gray's LazyPython. They are
 meant to allow less typing for common situations.
 
 
 Automatic parentheses
 +++++++++++++++++++++
 
 Callable objects (i.e. functions, methods, etc) can be invoked like this
 (notice the commas between the arguments)::
 
     In [1]: callable_ob arg1, arg2, arg3
     ------> callable_ob(arg1, arg2, arg3)
 
 You can force automatic parentheses by using '/' as the first character
 of a line. For example::
 
     In [2]: /globals # becomes 'globals()'
 
 Note that the '/' MUST be the first character on the line! This won't work::
 
     In [3]: print /globals # syntax error
 
 In most cases the automatic algorithm should work, so you should rarely
 need to explicitly invoke /. One notable exception is if you are trying
 to call a function with a list of tuples as arguments (the parenthesis
 will confuse IPython)::
 
     In [4]: zip (1,2,3),(4,5,6) # won't work
 
 but this will work::
 
     In [5]: /zip (1,2,3),(4,5,6) 
     ------> zip ((1,2,3),(4,5,6))  
     Out[5]: [(1, 4), (2, 5), (3, 6)]
 
 IPython tells you that it has altered your command line by displaying
 the new command line preceded by ->. e.g.::
 
     In [6]: callable list 
     ------> callable(list)
 
 
 Automatic quoting
 +++++++++++++++++
 
 You can force automatic quoting of a function's arguments by using ','
 or ';' as the first character of a line. For example::
 
     In [1]: ,my_function /home/me  # becomes my_function("/home/me")
 
 If you use ';' the whole argument is quoted as a single string, while ',' splits
 on whitespace::
 
     In [2]: ,my_function a b c    # becomes my_function("a","b","c")
 
     In [3]: ;my_function a b c    # becomes my_function("a b c")
 
 Note that the ',' or ';' MUST be the first character on the line! This
 won't work::
 
     In [4]: x = ,my_function /home/me # syntax error
 
 IPython as your default Python environment
 ==========================================
 
 Python honors the environment variable PYTHONSTARTUP and will execute at
 startup the file referenced by this variable. If you put the following code at
 the end of that file, then IPython will be your working environment anytime you
 start Python::
 
     from IPython.frontend.terminal.ipapp import launch_new_instance
     launch_new_instance()
     raise SystemExit
 
 The ``raise SystemExit`` is needed to exit Python when
 it finishes, otherwise you'll be back at the normal Python '>>>'
 prompt.
 
 This is probably useful to developers who manage multiple Python
 versions and don't want to have correspondingly multiple IPython
 versions. Note that in this mode, there is no way to pass IPython any
 command-line options, as those are trapped first by Python itself.
 
 .. _Embedding:
 
 Embedding IPython
 =================
 
 It is possible to start an IPython instance inside your own Python
 programs. This allows you to evaluate dynamically the state of your
 code, operate with your variables, analyze them, etc. Note however that
 any changes you make to values while in the shell do not propagate back
 to the running code, so it is safe to modify your values because you
 won't break your code in bizarre ways by doing so.
 
 .. note::
 
   At present, trying to embed IPython from inside IPython causes problems. Run
   the code samples below outside IPython.
 
 This feature allows you to easily have a fully functional python
 environment for doing object introspection anywhere in your code with a
 simple function call. In some cases a simple print statement is enough,
 but if you need to do more detailed analysis of a code fragment this
 feature can be very valuable.
 
 It can also be useful in scientific computing situations where it is
 common to need to do some automatic, computationally intensive part and
 then stop to look at data, plots, etc.
 Opening an IPython instance will give you full access to your data and
 functions, and you can resume program execution once you are done with
 the interactive part (perhaps to stop again later, as many times as
 needed).
 
 The following code snippet is the bare minimum you need to include in
 your Python programs for this to work (detailed examples follow later)::
 
     from IPython import embed
 
     embed() # this call anywhere in your program will start IPython
 
 You can run embedded instances even in code which is itself being run at
 the IPython interactive prompt with '%run <filename>'. Since it's easy
 to get lost as to where you are (in your top-level IPython or in your
 embedded one), it's a good idea in such cases to set the in/out prompts
 to something different for the embedded instances. The code examples
 below illustrate this.
 
 You can also have multiple IPython instances in your program and open
 them separately, for example with different options for data
 presentation. If you close and open the same instance multiple times,
 its prompt counters simply continue from each execution to the next.
 
 Please look at the docstrings in the :mod:`~IPython.frontend.terminal.embed` 
 module for more details on the use of this system.
 
 The following sample file illustrating how to use the embedding
 functionality is provided in the examples directory as example-embed.py.
 It should be fairly self-explanatory:
 
 .. literalinclude:: ../../examples/core/example-embed.py
     :language: python
 
 Once you understand how the system functions, you can use the following
 code fragments in your programs which are ready for cut and paste:
 
 .. literalinclude:: ../../examples/core/example-embed-short.py
     :language: python
 
 Using the Python debugger (pdb)
 ===============================
 
 Running entire programs via pdb
 -------------------------------
 
 pdb, the Python debugger, is a powerful interactive debugger which
 allows you to step through code, set breakpoints, watch variables,
 etc.  IPython makes it very easy to start any script under the control
 of pdb, regardless of whether you have wrapped it into a 'main()'
 function or not. For this, simply type '%run -d myscript' at an
 IPython prompt. See the %run command's documentation (via '%run?' or
 in Sec. magic_ for more details, including how to control where pdb
 will stop execution first.
 
 For more information on the use of the pdb debugger, read the included
 pdb.doc file (part of the standard Python distribution). On a stock
 Linux system it is located at /usr/lib/python2.3/pdb.doc, but the
 easiest way to read it is by using the help() function of the pdb module
 as follows (in an IPython prompt)::
 
     In [1]: import pdb
     In [2]: pdb.help()
 
 This will load the pdb.doc document in a file viewer for you automatically.
 
 
 Automatic invocation of pdb on exceptions
 -----------------------------------------
 
 IPython, if started with the ``--pdb`` option (or if the option is set in
 your config file) can call the Python pdb debugger every time your code
 triggers an uncaught exception. This feature
 can also be toggled at any time with the %pdb magic command. This can be
 extremely useful in order to find the origin of subtle bugs, because pdb
 opens up at the point in your code which triggered the exception, and
 while your program is at this point 'dead', all the data is still
 available and you can walk up and down the stack frame and understand
 the origin of the problem.
 
 Furthermore, you can use these debugging facilities both with the
 embedded IPython mode and without IPython at all. For an embedded shell
 (see sec. Embedding_), simply call the constructor with
 ``--pdb`` in the argument string and pdb will automatically be called if an
 uncaught exception is triggered by your code.
 
 For stand-alone use of the feature in your programs which do not use
 IPython at all, put the following lines toward the top of your 'main'
 routine::
 
     import sys
     from IPython.core import ultratb
     sys.excepthook = ultratb.FormattedTB(mode='Verbose',
     color_scheme='Linux', call_pdb=1)
 
 The mode keyword can be either 'Verbose' or 'Plain', giving either very
 detailed or normal tracebacks respectively. The color_scheme keyword can
 be one of 'NoColor', 'Linux' (default) or 'LightBG'. These are the same
 options which can be set in IPython with ``--colors`` and ``--xmode``.
 
 This will give any of your programs detailed, colored tracebacks with
 automatic invocation of pdb.
 
 
 Extensions for syntax processing
 ================================
 
 This isn't for the faint of heart, because the potential for breaking
 things is quite high. But it can be a very powerful and useful feature.
 In a nutshell, you can redefine the way IPython processes the user input
 line to accept new, special extensions to the syntax without needing to
 change any of IPython's own code.
 
 In the IPython/extensions directory you will find some examples
 supplied, which we will briefly describe now. These can be used 'as is'
 (and both provide very useful functionality), or you can use them as a
 starting point for writing your own extensions.
 
 .. _pasting_with_prompts:
 
 Pasting of code starting with Python or IPython prompts
 -------------------------------------------------------
 
 IPython is smart enough to filter  out input prompts, be they plain Python ones
 (``>>>`` and ``...``) or IPython ones (``In [N]:`` and `` ...:``).  You can
 therefore copy and paste from existing interactive sessions without worry.
 
 The following is a 'screenshot' of how things work, copying an example from the
 standard Python tutorial::
 
     In [1]: >>> # Fibonacci series:
 
     In [2]: ... # the sum of two elements defines the next
 
     In [3]: ... a, b = 0, 1
 
     In [4]: >>> while b < 10:
        ...:     ...     print b
        ...:     ...     a, b = b, a+b
        ...:     
     1
     1
     2
     3
     5
     8
 
 And pasting from IPython sessions works equally well::
 
     In [1]: In [5]: def f(x):
        ...:        ...:     "A simple function"
        ...:        ...:     return x**2
        ...:    ...: 
 
     In [2]: f(3)
     Out[2]: 9
 
 .. _gui_support:
 
 GUI event loop support
 ======================
 
 .. versionadded:: 0.11
     The ``%gui`` magic and :mod:`IPython.lib.inputhook`.
 
 IPython has excellent support for working interactively with Graphical User
 Interface (GUI) toolkits, such as wxPython, PyQt4/PySide, PyGTK and Tk. This is
 implemented using Python's builtin ``PyOSInputHook`` hook. This implementation
 is extremely robust compared to our previous thread-based version. The
 advantages of this are:
 
 * GUIs can be enabled and disabled dynamically at runtime.
 * The active GUI can be switched dynamically at runtime.
 * In some cases, multiple GUIs can run simultaneously with no problems.
 * There is a developer API in :mod:`IPython.lib.inputhook` for customizing 
   all of these things.
 
 For users, enabling GUI event loop integration is simple.  You simple use the
 ``%gui`` magic as follows::
 
     %gui [GUINAME]
 
 With no arguments, ``%gui`` removes all GUI support.  Valid ``GUINAME``
 arguments are ``wx``, ``qt``, ``gtk`` and ``tk``.
 
 Thus, to use wxPython interactively and create a running :class:`wx.App`
 object, do::
 
     %gui wx
 
 For information on IPython's Matplotlib integration (and the ``pylab`` mode)
 see :ref:`this section <matplotlib_support>`.
 
 For developers that want to use IPython's GUI event loop integration in the
 form of a library, these capabilities are exposed in library form in the
 :mod:`IPython.lib.inputhook` and :mod:`IPython.lib.guisupport` modules.
 Interested developers should see the module docstrings for more information,
 but there are a few points that should be mentioned here.
 
 First, the ``PyOSInputHook`` approach only works in command line settings 
 where readline is activated.  The integration with various eventloops
 is handled somewhat differently (and more simply) when using the standalone
 kernel, as in the qtconsole and notebook.
 
 Second, when using the ``PyOSInputHook`` approach, a GUI application should
 *not* start its event loop. Instead all of this is handled by the
 ``PyOSInputHook``. This means that applications that are meant to be used both
 in IPython and as standalone apps need to have special code to detects how the
 application is being run. We highly recommend using IPython's support for this.
 Since the details vary slightly between toolkits, we point you to the various
 examples in our source directory :file:`docs/examples/lib` that demonstrate
 these capabilities.
 
 .. warning::
 
    The WX version of this is currently broken.  While ``--pylab=wx`` works
    fine, standalone WX apps do not.  See
    https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/645 for details of our progress on
    this issue.
 
 
 Third, unlike previous versions of IPython, we no longer "hijack" (replace
 them with no-ops) the event loops. This is done to allow applications that
 actually need to run the real event loops to do so. This is often needed to
 process pending events at critical points.
 
 Finally, we also have a number of examples in our source directory
 :file:`docs/examples/lib` that demonstrate these capabilities.
 
 PyQt and PySide
 ---------------
 
 .. attempt at explanation of the complete mess that is Qt support
 
 When you use ``--gui=qt`` or ``--pylab=qt``, IPython can work with either
 PyQt4 or PySide.  There are three options for configuration here, because
 PyQt4 has two APIs for QString and QVariant - v1, which is the default on
 Python 2, and the more natural v2, which is the only API supported by PySide.
 v2 is also the default for PyQt4 on Python 3.  IPython's code for the QtConsole
 uses v2, but you can still use any interface in your code, since the
 Qt frontend is in a different process.
 
 The default will be to import PyQt4 without configuration of the APIs, thus
 matching what most applications would expect. It will fall back of PySide if
 PyQt4 is unavailable.
 
 If specified, IPython will respect the environment variable ``QT_API`` used
 by ETS.  ETS 4.0 also works with both PyQt4 and PySide, but it requires
 PyQt4 to use its v2 API.  So if ``QT_API=pyside`` PySide will be used,
 and if ``QT_API=pyqt`` then PyQt4 will be used *with the v2 API* for
 QString and QVariant, so ETS codes like MayaVi will also work with IPython.
 
 If you launch IPython in pylab mode with ``ipython --pylab=qt``, then IPython
 will ask matplotlib which Qt library to use (only if QT_API is *not set*), via
 the 'backend.qt4' rcParam.  If matplotlib is version 1.0.1 or older, then
 IPython will always use PyQt4 without setting the v2 APIs, since neither v2
 PyQt nor PySide work.
 
 .. warning::
 
     Note that this means for ETS 4 to work with PyQt4, ``QT_API`` *must* be set
     to work with IPython's qt integration, because otherwise PyQt4 will be
     loaded in an incompatible mode.
     
     It also means that you must *not* have ``QT_API`` set if you want to
     use ``--gui=qt`` with code that requires PyQt4 API v1.
 
 
 .. _matplotlib_support:
 
 Plotting with matplotlib
 ========================
 
 `Matplotlib`_ provides high quality 2D and 3D plotting for Python. Matplotlib
 can produce plots on screen using a variety of GUI toolkits, including Tk,
 PyGTK, PyQt4 and wxPython. It also provides a number of commands useful for
 scientific computing, all with a syntax compatible with that of the popular
 Matlab program.
 
 To start IPython with matplotlib support, use the ``--pylab`` switch.  If no
 arguments are given, IPython will automatically detect your choice of
 matplotlib backend.  You can also request a specific backend with
 ``--pylab=backend``, where ``backend`` must be one of: 'tk', 'qt', 'wx', 'gtk',
 'osx'.
 
 .. _Matplotlib: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net
 
 .. _interactive_demos:
 
 Interactive demos with IPython
 ==============================
 
 IPython ships with a basic system for running scripts interactively in
 sections, useful when presenting code to audiences. A few tags embedded
 in comments (so that the script remains valid Python code) divide a file
 into separate blocks, and the demo can be run one block at a time, with
 IPython printing (with syntax highlighting) the block before executing
 it, and returning to the interactive prompt after each block. The
 interactive namespace is updated after each block is run with the
 contents of the demo's namespace.
 
 This allows you to show a piece of code, run it and then execute
 interactively commands based on the variables just created. Once you
 want to continue, you simply execute the next block of the demo. The
 following listing shows the markup necessary for dividing a script into
 sections for execution as a demo:
 
 .. literalinclude:: ../../examples/lib/example-demo.py
     :language: python
 
 In order to run a file as a demo, you must first make a Demo object out
 of it. If the file is named myscript.py, the following code will make a
 demo::
 
     from IPython.lib.demo import Demo
 
     mydemo = Demo('myscript.py')
 
 This creates the mydemo object, whose blocks you run one at a time by
 simply calling the object with no arguments. If you have autocall active
 in IPython (the default), all you need to do is type::
 
     mydemo 
 
 and IPython will call it, executing each block. Demo objects can be
 restarted, you can move forward or back skipping blocks, re-execute the
 last block, etc. Simply use the Tab key on a demo object to see its
 methods, and call '?' on them to see their docstrings for more usage
 details. In addition, the demo module itself contains a comprehensive
 docstring, which you can access via::
 
     from IPython.lib import demo
 
     demo?
 
 Limitations: It is important to note that these demos are limited to
 fairly simple uses. In particular, you cannot break up sections within
 indented code (loops, if statements, function definitions, etc.)
 Supporting something like this would basically require tracking the
 internal execution state of the Python interpreter, so only top-level
 divisions are allowed. If you want to be able to open an IPython
 instance at an arbitrary point in a program, you can use IPython's
 embedding facilities, see :func:`IPython.embed` for details.
 

docs/source/interactive/shell.txt

@@ -1,293 +1,293 b''
 .. _ipython_as_shell:
 
 =========================
 IPython as a system shell
 =========================
 
 .. warning::
 
     As of the 0.11 version of IPython, most of the APIs used by the shell
     profile have been changed, so the profile currently does very little
     beyond changing the IPython prompt.  To help restore the shell
     profile to past functionality described here, the old code is found in 
     :file:`IPython/deathrow`, which needs to be updated to use the
     APIs in 0.11.
 
 Overview
 ========
 
 The 'sh' profile optimizes IPython for system shell usage. Apart from
 certain job control functionality that is present in unix (ctrl+z does
 "suspend"), the sh profile should provide you with most of the
 functionality you use daily in system shell, and more. Invoke IPython
 in 'sh' profile by doing 'ipython -p sh', or (in win32) by launching
 the "pysh" shortcut in start menu.
 
 If you want to use the features of sh profile as your defaults (which
 might be a good idea if you use other profiles a lot of the time but
 still want the convenience of sh profile), add ``import ipy_profile_sh``
 to your $IPYTHON_DIR/ipy_user_conf.py.
 
 The 'sh' profile is different from the default profile in that:
 
  * Prompt shows the current directory
  * Spacing between prompts and input is more compact (no padding with
    empty lines). The startup banner is more compact as well.
  * System commands are directly available (in alias table) without
    requesting %rehashx - however, if you install new programs along
    your PATH, you might want to run %rehashx to update the persistent
    alias table
  * Macros are stored in raw format by default. That is, instead of
    '_ip.system("cat foo"), the macro will contain text 'cat foo')
  * Autocall is in full mode
  * Calling "up" does "cd .."
 
 The 'sh' profile is different from the now-obsolete (and unavailable)
 'pysh' profile in that the ``$$var = command`` and ``$var = command`` syntax is
 not supported anymore. Use ``var = !command`` instead (which is available in all
 IPython profiles).
 
 Aliases
 =======
 
 All of your $PATH has been loaded as IPython aliases, so you should be
 able to type any normal system command and have it executed. See
 %alias?  and %unalias? for details on the alias facilities. See also
 %rehashx? for details on the mechanism used to load $PATH.
 
 
 Directory management
 ====================
 
 Since each command passed by ipython to the underlying system is executed
 in a subshell which exits immediately, you can NOT use !cd to navigate
 the filesystem.
 
 IPython provides its own builtin '%cd' magic command to move in the
 filesystem (the % is not required with automagic on). It also maintains
 a list of visited directories (use %dhist to see it) and allows direct
 switching to any of them. Type 'cd?' for more details.
 
 %pushd, %popd and %dirs are provided for directory stack handling.
 
 
 Enabled extensions
 ==================
 
 Some extensions, listed below, are enabled as default in this profile.
 
 envpersist
 ----------
 
 %env can be used to "remember" environment variable manipulations. Examples::
 
 	%env - Show all environment variables
 	%env VISUAL=jed  - set VISUAL to jed
 	%env PATH+=;/foo - append ;foo to PATH
 	%env PATH+=;/bar - also append ;bar to PATH
 	%env PATH-=/wbin; - prepend /wbin; to PATH
 	%env -d VISUAL   - forget VISUAL persistent val
 	%env -p          - print all persistent env modifications
 
 ipy_which
 ---------
 
 %which magic command. Like 'which' in unix, but knows about ipython aliases.
 
 Example::
 
  [C:/ipython]|14> %which st
  st -> start .
  [C:/ipython]|15> %which d
  d -> dir /w /og /on
  [C:/ipython]|16> %which cp
  cp -> cp
    == c:\bin\cp.exe
  c:\bin\cp.exe
 
 ipy_app_completers
 ------------------
 
 Custom tab completers for some apps like svn, hg, bzr, apt-get. Try 'apt-get install <TAB>' in debian/ubuntu.
 
 ipy_rehashdir
 -------------
 
 Allows you to add system command aliases for commands that are not along your path. Let's say that you just installed Putty and want to be able to invoke it without adding it to path, you can create the alias for it with rehashdir::
 
  [~]|22> cd c:/opt/PuTTY/
  [c:opt/PuTTY]|23> rehashdir .
               <23> ['pageant', 'plink', 'pscp', 'psftp', 'putty', 'puttygen', 'unins000']
 
 Now, you can execute any of those commams directly::
 
  [c:opt/PuTTY]|24> cd
  [~]|25> putty
 
 (the putty window opens).
 
 If you want to store the alias so that it will always be available, do '%store putty'. If you want to %store all these aliases persistently, just do it in a for loop::
 
  [~]|27> for a in _23:
     |..>     %store $a
     |..>
     |..>
  Alias stored: pageant (0, 'c:\\opt\\PuTTY\\pageant.exe')
  Alias stored: plink (0, 'c:\\opt\\PuTTY\\plink.exe')
  Alias stored: pscp (0, 'c:\\opt\\PuTTY\\pscp.exe')
  Alias stored: psftp (0, 'c:\\opt\\PuTTY\\psftp.exe')
  ...
 
 mglob
 -----
 
 Provide the magic function %mglob, which makes it easier (than the 'find' command) to collect (possibly recursive) file lists. Examples::
 
  [c:/ipython]|9> mglob *.py
  [c:/ipython]|10> mglob *.py rec:*.txt
  [c:/ipython]|19> workfiles = %mglob !.svn/ !.hg/ !*_Data/ !*.bak rec:.
 
 Note that the first 2 calls will put the file list in result history (_, _9, _10), and the last one will assign it to 'workfiles'.
 
 
 Prompt customization
 ====================
 
 The sh profile uses the following prompt configurations::
 
-    o.prompt_in1= r'\C_LightBlue[\C_LightCyan\Y2\C_LightBlue]\C_Green|\#>'
-    o.prompt_in2= r'\C_Green|\C_LightGreen\D\C_Green>'
+    o.PromptManager.in_template= r'\C_LightBlue[\C_LightCyan\Y2\C_LightBlue]\C_Green|\#>'
+    o.PromptManager.in2_template= r'\C_Green|\C_LightGreen\D\C_Green>'
 
 You can change the prompt configuration to your liking by editing
 ipython_config.py.
 
 .. _string_lists:
 
 String lists
 ============
 
 String lists (IPython.utils.text.SList) are handy way to process output
 from system commands. They are produced by ``var = !cmd`` syntax.
 
 First, we acquire the output of 'ls -l'::
 
     [Q:doc/examples]|2> lines = !ls -l
      ==
     ['total 23',
      '-rw-rw-rw- 1 ville None 1163 Sep 30  2006 example-demo.py',
      '-rw-rw-rw- 1 ville None 1927 Sep 30  2006 example-embed-short.py',
      '-rwxrwxrwx 1 ville None 4606 Sep  1 17:15 example-embed.py',
      '-rwxrwxrwx 1 ville None 1017 Sep 30  2006 example-gnuplot.py',
      '-rwxrwxrwx 1 ville None  339 Jun 11 18:01 extension.py',
      '-rwxrwxrwx 1 ville None  113 Dec 20  2006 seteditor.py',
      '-rwxrwxrwx 1 ville None  245 Dec 12  2006 seteditor.pyc']
 
 Now, let's take a look at the contents of 'lines' (the first number is
 the list element number)::
 
     [Q:doc/examples]|3> lines
                     <3> SList (.p, .n, .l, .s, .grep(), .fields() available). Value:
 
     0: total 23
     1: -rw-rw-rw- 1 ville None 1163 Sep 30  2006 example-demo.py
     2: -rw-rw-rw- 1 ville None 1927 Sep 30  2006 example-embed-short.py
     3: -rwxrwxrwx 1 ville None 4606 Sep  1 17:15 example-embed.py
     4: -rwxrwxrwx 1 ville None 1017 Sep 30  2006 example-gnuplot.py
     5: -rwxrwxrwx 1 ville None  339 Jun 11 18:01 extension.py
     6: -rwxrwxrwx 1 ville None  113 Dec 20  2006 seteditor.py
     7: -rwxrwxrwx 1 ville None  245 Dec 12  2006 seteditor.pyc
 
 Now, let's filter out the 'embed' lines::
 
     [Q:doc/examples]|4> l2 = lines.grep('embed',prune=1)
     [Q:doc/examples]|5> l2
                     <5> SList (.p, .n, .l, .s, .grep(), .fields() available). Value:
 
     0: total 23
     1: -rw-rw-rw- 1 ville None 1163 Sep 30  2006 example-demo.py
     2: -rwxrwxrwx 1 ville None 1017 Sep 30  2006 example-gnuplot.py
     3: -rwxrwxrwx 1 ville None  339 Jun 11 18:01 extension.py
     4: -rwxrwxrwx 1 ville None  113 Dec 20  2006 seteditor.py
     5: -rwxrwxrwx 1 ville None  245 Dec 12  2006 seteditor.pyc
 
 Now, we want strings having just file names and permissions::
 
     [Q:doc/examples]|6> l2.fields(8,0)
                     <6> SList (.p, .n, .l, .s, .grep(), .fields() available). Value:
 
     0: total
     1: example-demo.py -rw-rw-rw-
     2: example-gnuplot.py -rwxrwxrwx
     3: extension.py -rwxrwxrwx
     4: seteditor.py -rwxrwxrwx
     5: seteditor.pyc -rwxrwxrwx
 
 Note how the line with 'total' does not raise IndexError.
 
 If you want to split these (yielding lists), call fields() without
 arguments::
 
     [Q:doc/examples]|7> _.fields()
                     <7>
     [['total'],
      ['example-demo.py', '-rw-rw-rw-'],
      ['example-gnuplot.py', '-rwxrwxrwx'],
      ['extension.py', '-rwxrwxrwx'],
      ['seteditor.py', '-rwxrwxrwx'],
      ['seteditor.pyc', '-rwxrwxrwx']]
 
 If you want to pass these separated with spaces to a command (typical
 for lists if files), use the .s property::
 
 
     [Q:doc/examples]|13> files = l2.fields(8).s
     [Q:doc/examples]|14> files
                     <14> 'example-demo.py example-gnuplot.py extension.py seteditor.py seteditor.pyc'
     [Q:doc/examples]|15> ls $files
     example-demo.py  example-gnuplot.py  extension.py  seteditor.py  seteditor.pyc
 
 SLists are inherited from normal python lists, so every list method is
 available::
 
     [Q:doc/examples]|21> lines.append('hey')
 
 
 Real world example: remove all files outside version control
 ------------------------------------------------------------
 
 First, capture output of "hg status"::
 
     [Q:/ipython]|28> out = !hg status
      ==
     ['M IPython\\extensions\\ipy_kitcfg.py',
      'M IPython\\extensions\\ipy_rehashdir.py',
     ...
      '? build\\lib\\IPython\\Debugger.py',
      '? build\\lib\\IPython\\extensions\\InterpreterExec.py',
      '? build\\lib\\IPython\\extensions\\InterpreterPasteInput.py',
     ...
 
 (lines starting with ? are not under version control).
 
 ::
 
     [Q:/ipython]|35> junk = out.grep(r'^\?').fields(1)
     [Q:/ipython]|36> junk
                 <36> SList (.p, .n, .l, .s, .grep(), .fields() availab
     ...
     10: build\bdist.win32\winexe\temp\_ctypes.py
     11: build\bdist.win32\winexe\temp\_hashlib.py
     12: build\bdist.win32\winexe\temp\_socket.py
 
 Now we can just remove these files by doing 'rm $junk.s'. 
 
 The .s, .n, .p properties
 -------------------------
 
 The ``.s`` property returns one string where lines are separated by
 single space (for convenient passing to system commands). The ``.n``
 property return one string where the lines are separated by a newline
 (i.e. the original output of the function). If the items in string
 list are file names, ``.p`` can be used to get a list of "path" objects
 for convenient file manipulation.