Created rehash_dir extensions that introduces new magic,

%rehashdir, and also serves as an example on creating extensions
for ipython.

IPython/Extensions/rehash_dir.py

@@ -0,0 +1,90 b''
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+""" IPython extension: add %rehashdir magic
+
+Usage:
+
+%rehash_dir c:/bin c:/tools
+  - Add all executables under c:/bin and c:/tools to alias table, in 
+  order to make them directly executable from any directory.
+  
+This also serves as an example on how to extend ipython
+with new magic functions.
+
+Unlike rest of ipython, this requires Python 2.4 (optional
+extensions are allowed to do that).
+
+To install, add
+
+"import_mod rehash_dir"
+
+To your ipythonrc or just execute "import rehash_dir" in ipython
+prompt.
+
+
+
+
+$Id: InterpreterExec.py 994 2006-01-08 08:29:44Z fperez $
+"""
+
+import IPython.ipapi as ip
+
+
+import os,re
+
[e-mail]("rehashdir")
+def rehashdir_f(self,arg):
+    """ Add executables in all specified dirs to alias table
+     
+    Usage:
+
+    %rehash_dir c:/bin c:/tools
+      - Add all executables under c:/bin and c:/tools to alias table, in 
+      order to make them directly executable from any directory.
+    """
+
+    # most of the code copied from Magic.magic_rehashx
+    if not arg:
+        arg = '.'
+    path = arg.split()
+    alias_table = self.shell.alias_table
+        
+    if os.name == 'posix':
+        isexec = lambda fname:os.path.isfile(fname) and \
+                 os.access(fname,os.X_OK)
+    else:
+
+        try:
+            winext = os.environ['pathext'].replace(';','|').replace('.','')
+        except KeyError:
+            winext = 'exe|com|bat'
+
+        execre = re.compile(r'(.*)\.(%s)$' % winext,re.IGNORECASE)
+        isexec = lambda fname:os.path.isfile(fname) and execre.match(fname)
+    savedir = os.getcwd()
+    try:
+        # write the whole loop for posix/Windows so we don't have an if in
+        # the innermost part
+        if os.name == 'posix':
+            for pdir in path:
+                os.chdir(pdir)
+                for ff in os.listdir(pdir):
+                    if isexec(ff):
+                        # each entry in the alias table must be (N,name),
+                        # where N is the number of positional arguments of the
+                        # alias.
+                        print "Aliasing",ff
+                        alias_table[ff] = (0,os.path.abspath(ff))
+        else:
+            for pdir in path:
+                os.chdir(pdir)
+                for ff in os.listdir(pdir):
+                    if isexec(ff):
+                        print "Aliasing",ff
+                        alias_table[execre.sub(r'\1',ff)] = (0,os.path.abspath(ff))
+        # Make sure the alias table doesn't contain keywords or builtins
+        self.shell.alias_table_validate()
+        # Call again init_auto_alias() so we get 'rm -i' and other
+        # modified aliases since %rehashx will probably clobber them
+        self.shell.init_auto_alias()
+    finally:
+        os.chdir(savedir)
  No newline at end of file

IPython/ipmaker.py

@@ -6,7 +6,7 b' Requires Python 2.1 or better.'
 
 This file contains the main make_IPython() starter function.
 
-$Id: ipmaker.py 1017 2006-01-14 09:46:45Z vivainio $"""
+$Id: ipmaker.py 1033 2006-01-20 10:41:20Z vivainio $"""
 
 #*****************************************************************************
 #       Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Fernando Perez. <[e-mail]>
@@ -478,6 +478,7 b" object? -> Details about 'object'. ?object also works, ?? prints more."
     # add personal .ipython dir to sys.path so that users can put things in
     # there for customization
     sys.path.append(IP_rc.ipythondir)
+        
     sys.path.insert(0, '') # add . to sys.path. Fix from Prabhu Ramachandran
     
     # update IP_rc with some special things that need manual
@@ -560,6 +561,8 b" object? -> Details about 'object'. ?object also works, ?? prints more."
         print 'loaded first).\n'
         pprint(IP_rc.__dict__)
         
+    # Make it easy to import extensions
+    sys.path.append(os.path.join(IPython_dir,"Extensions"))
     for mod in IP_rc.import_mod:
         try:
             exec 'import '+mod in IP.user_ns

doc/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,9 b''
[phone]  Ville Vainio  <[e-mail]>
+
+	* Ipython/Extensions/rehash_dir.py: Created a usable example
+	of how to extend ipython with new magics. Also added Extensions
+	dir to pythonpath to make executing extensions easy.
+
 2006-01-20  Fernando Perez  <[e-mail]>
 
 	* IPython/iplib.py (raw_input): I _think_ I got the pasting of