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IPython/frontend/html/notebook/notebookapp.py

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 # coding: utf-8
 """A tornado based IPython notebook server.
 
 Authors:
 
 * Brian Granger
 """
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #  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
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # stdlib
 import errno
 import logging
 import os
 import signal
 import socket
 import sys
 import threading
 import webbrowser
 
 # Third party
 import zmq
 
 # Install the pyzmq ioloop. This has to be done before anything else from
 # tornado is imported.
 from zmq.eventloop import ioloop
 # FIXME: ioloop.install is new in pyzmq-2.1.7, so remove this conditional
 # when pyzmq dependency is updated beyond that.
 if hasattr(ioloop, 'install'):
     ioloop.install()
 else:
     import tornado.ioloop
     tornado.ioloop.IOLoop = ioloop.IOLoop
 
 from tornado import httpserver
 from tornado import web
 
 # Our own libraries
 from .kernelmanager import MappingKernelManager
 from .handlers import (LoginHandler, LogoutHandler,
     ProjectDashboardHandler, NewHandler, NamedNotebookHandler,
     MainKernelHandler, KernelHandler, KernelActionHandler, IOPubHandler,
     ShellHandler, NotebookRootHandler, NotebookHandler, NotebookCopyHandler,
     RSTHandler, AuthenticatedFileHandler, PrintNotebookHandler
 )
 from .notebookmanager import NotebookManager
 
 from IPython.config.application import catch_config_error, boolean_flag
 from IPython.core.application import BaseIPythonApplication
 from IPython.core.profiledir import ProfileDir
 from IPython.lib.kernel import swallow_argv
 from IPython.zmq.session import Session, default_secure
 from IPython.zmq.zmqshell import ZMQInteractiveShell
 from IPython.zmq.ipkernel import (
     flags as ipkernel_flags,
     aliases as ipkernel_aliases,
     IPKernelApp
 )
 from IPython.utils.traitlets import Dict, Unicode, Integer, List, Enum, Bool
 from IPython.utils import py3compat
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Module globals
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 _kernel_id_regex = r"(?P<kernel_id>\w+-\w+-\w+-\w+-\w+)"
 _kernel_action_regex = r"(?P<action>restart|interrupt)"
 _notebook_id_regex = r"(?P<notebook_id>\w+-\w+-\w+-\w+-\w+)"
 
 LOCALHOST = '127.0.0.1'
 
 _examples = """
 ipython notebook                       # start the notebook
 ipython notebook --profile=sympy       # use the sympy profile
 ipython notebook --pylab=inline        # pylab in inline plotting mode
 ipython notebook --certfile=mycert.pem # use SSL/TLS certificate
 ipython notebook --port=5555 --ip=*    # Listen on port 5555, all interfaces
 """
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Helper functions
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 def url_path_join(a,b):
     if a.endswith('/') and b.startswith('/'):
         return a[:-1]+b
     else:
         return a+b
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # The Tornado web application
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 class NotebookWebApplication(web.Application):
 
     def __init__(self, ipython_app, kernel_manager, notebook_manager, log,
                  base_project_url, settings_overrides):
         handlers = [
             (r"/", ProjectDashboardHandler),
             (r"/login", LoginHandler),
             (r"/logout", LogoutHandler),
             (r"/new", NewHandler),
             (r"/%s" % _notebook_id_regex, NamedNotebookHandler),
             (r"/%s/copy" % _notebook_id_regex, NotebookCopyHandler),
             (r"/%s/print" % _notebook_id_regex, PrintNotebookHandler),
             (r"/kernels", MainKernelHandler),
             (r"/kernels/%s" % _kernel_id_regex, KernelHandler),
             (r"/kernels/%s/%s" % (_kernel_id_regex, _kernel_action_regex), KernelActionHandler),
             (r"/kernels/%s/iopub" % _kernel_id_regex, IOPubHandler),
             (r"/kernels/%s/shell" % _kernel_id_regex, ShellHandler),
             (r"/notebooks", NotebookRootHandler),
             (r"/notebooks/%s" % _notebook_id_regex, NotebookHandler),
             (r"/rstservice/render", RSTHandler),
             (r"/files/(.*)", AuthenticatedFileHandler, {'path' : notebook_manager.notebook_dir}),
         ]
         settings = dict(
             template_path=os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "templates"),
             static_path=os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "static"),
             cookie_secret=os.urandom(1024),
             login_url="/login",
         )
 
         # allow custom overrides for the tornado web app.
         settings.update(settings_overrides)
 
         # Python < 2.6.5 doesn't accept unicode keys in f(**kwargs), and
         # base_project_url will always be unicode, which will in turn
         # make the patterns unicode, and ultimately result in unicode
         # keys in kwargs to handler._execute(**kwargs) in tornado.
         # This enforces that base_project_url be ascii in that situation.
         # 
         # Note that the URLs these patterns check against are escaped,
         # and thus guaranteed to be ASCII: 'héllo' is really 'h%C3%A9llo'.
         base_project_url = py3compat.unicode_to_str(base_project_url, 'ascii')
         
         # prepend base_project_url onto the patterns that we match
         new_handlers = []
         for handler in handlers:
             pattern = url_path_join(base_project_url, handler[0])
             new_handler = tuple([pattern]+list(handler[1:]))
             new_handlers.append( new_handler )
 
         super(NotebookWebApplication, self).__init__(new_handlers, **settings)
 
         self.kernel_manager = kernel_manager
         self.log = log
         self.notebook_manager = notebook_manager
         self.ipython_app = ipython_app
         self.read_only = self.ipython_app.read_only
 
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Aliases and Flags
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 flags = dict(ipkernel_flags)
 flags['no-browser']=(
     {'NotebookApp' : {'open_browser' : False}},
     "Don't open the notebook in a browser after startup."
 )
 flags['no-mathjax']=(
     {'NotebookApp' : {'enable_mathjax' : False}},
     """Disable MathJax
     
     MathJax is the javascript library IPython uses to render math/LaTeX. It is
     very large, so you may want to disable it if you have a slow internet
     connection, or for offline use of the notebook.
     
     When disabled, equations etc. will appear as their untransformed TeX source.
     """
 )
 flags['read-only'] = (
     {'NotebookApp' : {'read_only' : True}},
     """Allow read-only access to notebooks.
     
     When using a password to protect the notebook server, this flag
     allows unauthenticated clients to view the notebook list, and
     individual notebooks, but not edit them, start kernels, or run
     code.
     
     If no password is set, the server will be entirely read-only.
     """
 )
 
 # Add notebook manager flags
 flags.update(boolean_flag('script', 'NotebookManager.save_script',
                'Auto-save a .py script everytime the .ipynb notebook is saved',
                'Do not auto-save .py scripts for every notebook'))
 
 # the flags that are specific to the frontend
 # these must be scrubbed before being passed to the kernel,
 # or it will raise an error on unrecognized flags
 notebook_flags = ['no-browser', 'no-mathjax', 'read-only', 'script', 'no-script']
 
 aliases = dict(ipkernel_aliases)
 
 aliases.update({
     'ip': 'NotebookApp.ip',
     'port': 'NotebookApp.port',
     'keyfile': 'NotebookApp.keyfile',
     'certfile': 'NotebookApp.certfile',
     'notebook-dir': 'NotebookManager.notebook_dir',
 })
 
 # remove ipkernel flags that are singletons, and don't make sense in
 # multi-kernel evironment:
 aliases.pop('f', None)
 
 notebook_aliases = [u'port', u'ip', u'keyfile', u'certfile',
                     u'notebook-dir']
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # NotebookApp
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 class NotebookApp(BaseIPythonApplication):
 
     name = 'ipython-notebook'
     default_config_file_name='ipython_notebook_config.py'
     
     description = """
         The IPython HTML Notebook.
         
         This launches a Tornado based HTML Notebook Server that serves up an
         HTML5/Javascript Notebook client.
     """
     examples = _examples
     
     classes = [IPKernelApp, ZMQInteractiveShell, ProfileDir, Session,
                MappingKernelManager, NotebookManager]
     flags = Dict(flags)
     aliases = Dict(aliases)
 
     kernel_argv = List(Unicode)
 
     log_level = Enum((0,10,20,30,40,50,'DEBUG','INFO','WARN','ERROR','CRITICAL'),
                     default_value=logging.INFO,
                     config=True,
                     help="Set the log level by value or name.")
 
     # create requested profiles by default, if they don't exist:
     auto_create = Bool(True)
 
     # Network related information.
 
     ip = Unicode(LOCALHOST, config=True,
         help="The IP address the notebook server will listen on."
     )
 
     def _ip_changed(self, name, old, new):
         if new == u'*': self.ip = u''
 
     port = Integer(8888, config=True,
         help="The port the notebook server will listen on."
     )
 
     certfile = Unicode(u'', config=True, 
         help="""The full path to an SSL/TLS certificate file."""
     )
     
     keyfile = Unicode(u'', config=True, 
         help="""The full path to a private key file for usage with SSL/TLS."""
     )
 
     password = Unicode(u'', config=True,
                       help="""Hashed password to use for web authentication.
 
                       To generate, type in a python/IPython shell:
 
                         from IPython.lib import passwd; passwd()
 
                       The string should be of the form type:salt:hashed-password.
                       """
     )
     
     open_browser = Bool(True, config=True,
-                        help="Whether to open in a browser after starting.")
+                        help="""Whether to open in a browser after starting.
+                        The specific browser used is platform dependent and
+                        determined by the python standard library `webbrowser`
+                        module, which allows setting of the BROWSER
+                        environment variable to override it. As a one-time
+                        change, you can start the notebook using:
+
+                            BROWSER=firefox ipython notebook
+
+                        To make the change more permanent, modify your
+                        ~/.bashrc you can include a line like the following:
+
+                            export BROWSER=firefox
+                        """)
     
     read_only = Bool(False, config=True,
         help="Whether to prevent editing/execution of notebooks."
     )
     
     webapp_settings = Dict(config=True,
             help="Supply overrides for the tornado.web.Application that the "
                  "IPython notebook uses.")
     
     enable_mathjax = Bool(True, config=True,
         help="""Whether to enable MathJax for typesetting math/TeX
 
         MathJax is the javascript library IPython uses to render math/LaTeX. It is
         very large, so you may want to disable it if you have a slow internet
         connection, or for offline use of the notebook.
 
         When disabled, equations etc. will appear as their untransformed TeX source.
         """
     )
     def _enable_mathjax_changed(self, name, old, new):
         """set mathjax url to empty if mathjax is disabled"""
         if not new:
             self.mathjax_url = u''
 
     base_project_url = Unicode('/', config=True,
                                help='''The base URL for the notebook server''')
     base_kernel_url = Unicode('/', config=True,
                                help='''The base URL for the kernel server''')
     websocket_host = Unicode("", config=True,
         help="""The hostname for the websocket server."""
     )
 
     mathjax_url = Unicode("", config=True,
         help="""The url for MathJax.js."""
     )
     def _mathjax_url_default(self):
         if not self.enable_mathjax:
             return u''
         static_path = self.webapp_settings.get("static_path", os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "static"))
         static_url_prefix = self.webapp_settings.get("static_url_prefix",
                                                      "/static/")
         if os.path.exists(os.path.join(static_path, 'mathjax', "MathJax.js")):
             self.log.info("Using local MathJax")
             return static_url_prefix+u"mathjax/MathJax.js"
         else:
             self.log.info("Using MathJax from CDN")
             return u"http://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/MathJax.js"
     
     def _mathjax_url_changed(self, name, old, new):
         if new and not self.enable_mathjax:
             # enable_mathjax=False overrides mathjax_url
             self.mathjax_url = u''
         else:
             self.log.info("Using MathJax: %s", new)
 
     def parse_command_line(self, argv=None):
         super(NotebookApp, self).parse_command_line(argv)
         if argv is None:
             argv = sys.argv[1:]
 
         # Scrub frontend-specific flags
         self.kernel_argv = swallow_argv(argv, notebook_aliases, notebook_flags)
         # Kernel should inherit default config file from frontend
         self.kernel_argv.append("--KernelApp.parent_appname='%s'"%self.name)
 
     def init_configurables(self):
         # force Session default to be secure
         default_secure(self.config)
         # Create a KernelManager and start a kernel.
         self.kernel_manager = MappingKernelManager(
             config=self.config, log=self.log, kernel_argv=self.kernel_argv,
             connection_dir = self.profile_dir.security_dir,
         )
         self.notebook_manager = NotebookManager(config=self.config, log=self.log)
         self.notebook_manager.list_notebooks()
 
     def init_logging(self):
         super(NotebookApp, self).init_logging()
         # This prevents double log messages because tornado use a root logger that
         # self.log is a child of. The logging module dipatches log messages to a log
         # and all of its ancenstors until propagate is set to False.
         self.log.propagate = False
     
     def init_webapp(self):
         """initialize tornado webapp and httpserver"""
         self.web_app = NotebookWebApplication(
             self, self.kernel_manager, self.notebook_manager, self.log,
             self.base_project_url, self.webapp_settings
         )
         if self.certfile:
             ssl_options = dict(certfile=self.certfile)
             if self.keyfile:
                 ssl_options['keyfile'] = self.keyfile
         else:
             ssl_options = None
         self.web_app.password = self.password
         self.http_server = httpserver.HTTPServer(self.web_app, ssl_options=ssl_options)
         if ssl_options is None and not self.ip and not (self.read_only and not self.password):
             self.log.critical('WARNING: the notebook server is listening on all IP addresses '
                               'but not using any encryption or authentication. This is highly '
                               'insecure and not recommended.')
 
         # Try random ports centered around the default.
         from random import randint
         n = 50  # Max number of attempts, keep reasonably large.
         for port in range(self.port, self.port+5) + [self.port + randint(-2*n, 2*n) for i in range(n-5)]:
             try:
                 self.http_server.listen(port, self.ip)
             except socket.error, e:
                 if e.errno != errno.EADDRINUSE:
                     raise
                 self.log.info('The port %i is already in use, trying another random port.' % port)
             else:
                 self.port = port
                 break
     
     @catch_config_error
     def initialize(self, argv=None):
         super(NotebookApp, self).initialize(argv)
         self.init_configurables()
         self.init_webapp()
 
     def cleanup_kernels(self):
         """shutdown all kernels
         
         The kernels will shutdown themselves when this process no longer exists,
         but explicit shutdown allows the KernelManagers to cleanup the connection files.
         """
         self.log.info('Shutting down kernels')
         km = self.kernel_manager
         # copy list, since kill_kernel deletes keys
         for kid in list(km.kernel_ids):
             km.kill_kernel(kid)
 
     def start(self):
         ip = self.ip if self.ip else '[all ip addresses on your system]'
         proto = 'https' if self.certfile else 'http'
         info = self.log.info
         info("The IPython Notebook is running at: %s://%s:%i%s" %
              (proto, ip, self.port,self.base_project_url) )
         info("Use Control-C to stop this server and shut down all kernels.")
 
         if self.open_browser:
             ip = self.ip or '127.0.0.1'
             b = lambda : webbrowser.open("%s://%s:%i%s" % (proto, ip, self.port,
                                                            self.base_project_url),
                                          new=2)
             threading.Thread(target=b).start()
         try:
             ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()
         except KeyboardInterrupt:
             info("Interrupted...")
         finally:
             self.cleanup_kernels()
     
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Main entry point
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 def launch_new_instance():
     app = NotebookApp.instance()
     app.initialize()
     app.start()