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1 1 .. _integrating:
2 2
3 3 =====================================
4 4 Integrating your objects with IPython
5 5 =====================================
6 6
7 7 Tab completion
8 8 ==============
9 9
10 10 To change the attributes displayed by tab-completing your object, define a
11 11 ``__dir__(self)`` method for it. For more details, see the documentation of the
12 12 built-in `dir() function <http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#dir>`_.
13 13
14 You can also customise key completions for your objects, e.g. pressing tab after
15 ``obj["a``. To do so, define a method ``_ipython_key_completions_()``, which
16 returns a list of objects which are possible keys in a subscript expression
17 ``obj[key]``.
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19 .. versionadded:: 5.0
20 Custom key completions
21
14 22 Rich display
15 23 ============
16 24
17 25 The notebook and the Qt console can display richer representations of objects.
18 26 To use this, you can define any of a number of ``_repr_*_()`` methods. Note that
19 27 these are surrounded by single, not double underscores.
20 28
21 29 Both the notebook and the Qt console can display ``svg``, ``png`` and ``jpeg``
22 30 representations. The notebook can also display ``html``, ``javascript``,
23 31 and ``latex``. If the methods don't exist, or return ``None``, it falls
24 32 back to a standard ``repr()``.
25 33
26 34 For example::
27 35
28 36 class Shout(object):
29 37 def __init__(self, text):
30 38 self.text = text
31 39
32 40 def _repr_html_(self):
33 41 return "<h1>" + self.text + "</h1>"
34 42
35 43 Custom exception tracebacks
36 44 ===========================
37 45
38 46 Rarely, you might want to display a different traceback with an exception -
39 47 IPython's own parallel computing framework does this to display errors from the
40 48 engines. To do this, define a ``_render_traceback_(self)`` method which returns
41 49 a list of strings, each containing one line of the traceback.
42 50
43 51 Please be conservative in using this feature; by replacing the default traceback
44 52 you may hide important information from the user.
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