Merge pull request #5650 from titsworth/load_from_namespace

Expanded %load functionality - user namespace search

docs/source/whatsnew/pr/load_from_namespace.rst

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+Adds object inspection to %load magic so that source for objects in user or global namespaces can be loaded. To enable searching the namespace, use the ``-n`` option.
+
+.. sourcecode:: ipython
+
+    In [1]: %load -n my_module.some_function
+

IPython/core/interactiveshell.py

@@ -1,3217 +1,3224 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 absolute_import
 from __future__ import print_function
 
 import __future__
 import abc
 import ast
 import atexit
 import functools
 import os
 import re
 import runpy
 import sys
 import tempfile
 import types
 import subprocess
 from io import open as io_open
 
 from IPython.config.configurable import SingletonConfigurable
 from IPython.core import debugger, oinspect
 from IPython.core import magic
 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.events import EventManager, available_events
 from IPython.core.compilerop import CachingCompiler, check_linecache_ipython
 from IPython.core.display_trap import DisplayTrap
 from IPython.core.displayhook import DisplayHook
 from IPython.core.displaypub import DisplayPublisher
 from IPython.core.error import UsageError
 from IPython.core.extensions import ExtensionManager
 from IPython.core.formatters import DisplayFormatter
 from IPython.core.history import HistoryManager
 from IPython.core.inputsplitter import IPythonInputSplitter, ESC_MAGIC, ESC_MAGIC2
 from IPython.core.logger import Logger
 from IPython.core.macro import Macro
 from IPython.core.payload import PayloadManager
 from IPython.core.prefilter import PrefilterManager
 from IPython.core.profiledir import ProfileDir
 from IPython.core.prompts import PromptManager
 from IPython.lib.latextools import LaTeXTool
 from IPython.testing.skipdoctest import skip_doctest
 from IPython.utils import PyColorize
 from IPython.utils import io
 from IPython.utils import py3compat
 from IPython.utils import openpy
 from IPython.utils.decorators import undoc
 from IPython.utils.io import ask_yes_no
 from IPython.utils.ipstruct import Struct
 from IPython.utils.path import get_home_dir, get_ipython_dir, get_py_filename, unquote_filename
 from IPython.utils.pickleshare import PickleShareDB
 from IPython.utils.process import system, getoutput
 from IPython.utils.py3compat import (builtin_mod, unicode_type, string_types,
                                      with_metaclass, iteritems)
 from IPython.utils.strdispatch import StrDispatch
 from IPython.utils.syspathcontext import prepended_to_syspath
 from IPython.utils.text import (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
 import IPython.core.hooks
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Globals
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # compiled regexps for autoindent management
 dedent_re = re.compile(r'^\s+raise|^\s+return|^\s+pass')
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Utilities
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 @undoc
 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
 
 @undoc
 def no_op(*a, **kw): pass
 
 @undoc
 class NoOpContext(object):
     def __enter__(self): pass
     def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback): pass
 no_op_context = NoOpContext()
 
 class SpaceInInput(Exception): pass
 
 @undoc
 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):
     r"""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)]
 
 
 @undoc
 class DummyMod(object):
     """A dummy module used for IPython's interactive module when
     a namespace must be assigned to the module's __dict__."""
     pass
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Main IPython class
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 class InteractiveShell(SingletonConfigurable):
     """An enhanced, interactive shell for Python."""
 
     _instance = None
     
     ast_transformers = List([], config=True, help=
         """
         A list of ast.NodeTransformer subclass instances, which will be applied
         to user input before code is run.
         """
     )
 
     autocall = Enum((0,1,2), default_value=0, 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).
         """
     )
     # 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().
         """
     )
     disable_failing_post_execute = CBool(False, config=True,
         help="Don't call post-execute functions that have failed in the past."
     )
     display_formatter = Instance(DisplayFormatter)
     displayhook_class = Type(DisplayHook)
     display_pub_class = Type(DisplayPublisher)
     data_pub_class = None
 
     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 transform input line by line and detect when a block
     # is ready to be executed.
     input_splitter = Instance('IPython.core.inputsplitter.IPythonInputSplitter',
                               (), {'line_input_checker': True})
     
     # This InputSplitter instance is used to transform completed cells before
     # running them. It allows cell magics to contain blank lines.
     input_transformer_manager = Instance('IPython.core.inputsplitter.IPythonInputSplitter',
                                          (), {'line_input_checker': False})
     
     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"
     )
 
     # 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}".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
     
     show_rewritten_input = CBool(True, config=True,
         help="Show rewritten input, e.g. for autocall."
     )
     
     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)
     readline_delims = Unicode() # set by init_readline()
     # 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)
 
     ast_node_interactivity = Enum(['all', 'last', 'last_expr', 'none'],
                                   default_value='last_expr', config=True, 
                                   help="""
         'all', 'last', 'last_expr' or 'none', specifying which nodes should be
         run interactively (displaying output from expressions).""")
 
     # 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')
     payload_manager = Instance('IPython.core.payload.PayloadManager')
     history_manager = Instance('IPython.core.history.HistoryManager')
     magics_manager = Instance('IPython.core.magic.MagicsManager')
 
     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)
 
     # Tracks any GUI loop loaded for pylab
     pylab_gui_select = None
 
     def __init__(self, ipython_dir=None, profile_dir=None,
                  user_module=None, user_ns=None,
                  custom_exceptions=((), None), **kwargs):
 
         # This is where traits with a config_key argument are updated
         # from the values on config.
         super(InteractiveShell, self).__init__(**kwargs)
         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()
         
         # Check if we're in a virtualenv, and set up sys.path.
         self.init_virtualenv()
 
         # 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()
 
         self.init_syntax_highlighting()
         self.init_hooks()
         self.init_events()
         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_builtins()
 
         # 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_data_pub()
         self.init_displayhook()
         self.init_latextool()
         self.init_magics()
         self.init_alias()
         self.init_logstart()
         self.init_pdb()
         self.init_extension_manager()
         self.init_payload()
         self.init_comms()
         self.hooks.late_startup_hook()
         self.events.trigger('shell_initialized', self)
         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 = 0o777)
 
     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 = []
         self.tempdirs = []
 
         # 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 = py3compat.getcwd()
 
         # 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 %s append' % self.logappend)
         elif self.logfile:
             self.magic('logstart %s' % self.logfile)
         elif self.logstart:
             self.magic('logstart')
 
     def init_builtins(self):
         # A single, static flag that we set to True.  Its presence indicates
         # that an IPython shell has been created, and we make no attempts at
         # removing on exit or representing the existence of more than one
         # IPython at a time.
         builtin_mod.__dict__['__IPYTHON__'] = True
 
         # In 0.11 we introduced '__IPYTHON__active' as an integer we'd try to
         # manage on enter/exit, but with all our shells it's virtually
         # impossible to get all the cases right.  We're leaving the name in for
         # those who adapted their codes to check for this flag, but will
         # eventually remove it after a few more releases.
         builtin_mod.__dict__['__IPYTHON__active'] = \
                                           'Deprecated, check for __IPYTHON__'
 
         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' or sys.platform == 'cli') 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, parent=self)
         self.configurables.append(self.prompt_manager)
         # Set system prompts, so that scripts can decide if they are running
         # interactively.
         sys.ps1 = 'In : '
         sys.ps2 = '...: '
         sys.ps3 = 'Out: '
 
     def init_display_formatter(self):
         self.display_formatter = DisplayFormatter(parent=self)
         self.configurables.append(self.display_formatter)
 
     def init_display_pub(self):
         self.display_pub = self.display_pub_class(parent=self)
         self.configurables.append(self.display_pub)
 
     def init_data_pub(self):
         if not self.data_pub_class:
             self.data_pub = None
             return
         self.data_pub = self.data_pub_class(parent=self)
         self.configurables.append(self.data_pub)
 
     def init_displayhook(self):
         # Initialize displayhook, set in/out prompts and printing system
         self.displayhook = self.displayhook_class(
             parent=self,
             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_latextool(self):
         """Configure LaTeXTool."""
         cfg = LaTeXTool.instance(parent=self)
         if cfg not in self.configurables:
             self.configurables.append(cfg)
 
     def init_virtualenv(self):
         """Add a virtualenv to sys.path so the user can import modules from it.
         This isn't perfect: it doesn't use the Python interpreter with which the
         virtualenv was built, and it ignores the --no-site-packages option. A
         warning will appear suggesting the user installs IPython in the
         virtualenv, but for many cases, it probably works well enough.
         
         Adapted from code snippets online.
         
         http://blog.ufsoft.org/2009/1/29/ipython-and-virtualenv
         """
         if 'VIRTUAL_ENV' not in os.environ:
             # Not in a virtualenv
             return
         
         # venv detection:
         # stdlib venv may symlink sys.executable, so we can't use realpath.
         # but others can symlink *to* the venv Python, so we can't just use sys.executable.
         # So we just check every item in the symlink tree (generally <= 3)
         p = sys.executable
         paths = [p]
         while os.path.islink(p):
             p = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(p), os.readlink(p))
             paths.append(p)
         if any(p.startswith(os.environ['VIRTUAL_ENV']) for p in paths):
             # Running properly in the virtualenv, don't need to do anything
             return
         
         warn("Attempting to work in a virtualenv. If you encounter problems, please "
              "install IPython inside the virtualenv.")
         if sys.platform == "win32":
             virtual_env = os.path.join(os.environ['VIRTUAL_ENV'], 'Lib', 'site-packages') 
         else:
             virtual_env = os.path.join(os.environ['VIRTUAL_ENV'], 'lib',
                        'python%d.%d' % sys.version_info[:2], 'site-packages')
         
         import site
         sys.path.insert(0, virtual_env)
         site.addsitedir(virtual_env)
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # 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__
         self._orig_sys_modules_main_mod = sys.modules.get(self.user_module.__name__)
 
     def restore_sys_module_state(self):
         """Restore the state of the sys module."""
         try:
             for k, v in iteritems(self._orig_sys_module_state):
                 setattr(sys, k, v)
         except AttributeError:
             pass
         # Reset what what done in self.init_sys_modules
         if self._orig_sys_modules_main_mod is not None:
             sys.modules[self._orig_sys_modules_main_name] = self._orig_sys_modules_main_mod
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # 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, _warn_deprecated=False)
 
     def set_hook(self,name,hook, priority=50, str_key=None, re_key=None,
                  _warn_deprecated=True):
         """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 _warn_deprecated and (name in IPython.core.hooks.deprecated):
             alternative = IPython.core.hooks.deprecated[name]
             warn("Hook {} is deprecated. Use {} instead.".format(name, alternative))
 
         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)
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Things related to events
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def init_events(self):
         self.events = EventManager(self, available_events)
 
     def register_post_execute(self, func):
         """DEPRECATED: Use ip.events.register('post_run_cell', func)
         
         Register a function for calling after code execution.
         """
         warn("ip.register_post_execute is deprecated, use "
              "ip.events.register('post_run_cell', func) instead.")
         self.events.register('post_run_cell', func)
     
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Things related to the "main" module
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def new_main_mod(self, filename, modname):
         """Return a new 'main' module object for user code execution.
         
         ``filename`` should be the path of the script which will be run in the
         module. Requests with the same filename will get the same module, with
         its namespace cleared.
         
         ``modname`` should be the module name - normally either '__main__' or
         the basename of the file without the extension.
         
         When scripts are executed via %run, we must keep a reference to their
         __main__ module around so that Python doesn't
         clear it, rendering references to module globals useless.
 
         This method keeps said reference in a private dict, keyed by the
         absolute path of the script. 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.
         """
         filename = os.path.abspath(filename)
         try:
             main_mod = self._main_mod_cache[filename]
         except KeyError:
             main_mod = self._main_mod_cache[filename] = types.ModuleType(modname,
                         doc="Module created for script run in IPython")
         else:
             main_mod.__dict__.clear()
             main_mod.__name__ = modname
         
         main_mod.__file__ = filename
         # It seems pydoc (and perhaps others) needs any module instance to
         # implement a __nonzero__ method
         main_mod.__nonzero__ = lambda : True
         
         return main_mod
 
     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]: m = _ip.new_main_mod(IPython.__file__, 'IPython')
 
         In [17]: len(_ip._main_mod_cache) > 0
         Out[17]: True
 
         In [18]: _ip.clear_main_mod_cache()
 
         In [19]: len(_ip._main_mod_cache) == 0
         Out[19]: True
         """
         self._main_mod_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
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     default_user_namespaces = True
 
     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.
         if (user_ns is not None) or (user_module is not None):
             self.default_user_namespaces = False
         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 = {}
 
         # 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_mod_cache = {}
 
         # 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':self.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__")
             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()
         
         # 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_ns_hidden] + \
                [m.__dict__ for m in self._main_mod_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()
 
     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 iteritems(ns) 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, string_types+(list, tuple)):
             if isinstance(variables, string_types):
                 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:
             for name in vdict:
                 user_ns_hidden.pop(name, None)
         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 iteritems(variables):
             if name in self.user_ns and self.user_ns[name] is obj:
                 del self.user_ns[name]
                 self.user_ns_hidden.pop(name, None)
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # 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 oname.startswith(ESC_MAGIC) and \
             not oname.startswith(ESC_MAGIC2) and \
             not py3compat.isidentifier(oname, 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__),
                            ]
 
         # 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
                     break  # namespace loop
 
         # Try to see if it's magic
         if not found:
             obj = None
             if oname.startswith(ESC_MAGIC2):
                 oname = oname.lstrip(ESC_MAGIC2)
                 obj = self.find_cell_magic(oname)
             elif oname.startswith(ESC_MAGIC):
                 oname = oname.lstrip(ESC_MAGIC)
                 obj = self.find_line_magic(oname)
             else:
                 # search without prefix, so run? will find %run?
                 obj = self.find_line_magic(oname)
                 if obj is None:
                     obj = self.find_cell_magic(oname)
             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, namespaces)
         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, detail_level=0):
         with self.builtin_trap:
             info = self._object_find(oname)
             if info.found:
                 return self.inspector.info(info.obj, oname, info=info,
                             detail_level=detail_level
                 )
             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, parent=self)
         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=check_linecache_ipython)
 
         # 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, string_types):
                 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, string_types):
                     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("Custom TB Handler failed, unregistering", file=io.stderr)
                     # show the exception in handler first
                     stb = self.InteractiveTB.structured_traceback(*sys.exc_info())
                     print(self.InteractiveTB.stb2text(stb), file=io.stdout)
                     print("The original exception:", file=io.stdout)
                     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 _get_exc_info(self, exc_tuple=None):
         """get exc_info from a given tuple, sys.exc_info() or sys.last_type etc.
         
         Ensures sys.last_type,value,traceback hold the exc_info we found,
         from whichever source.
         
         raises ValueError if none of these contain any information
         """
         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
         
         if etype is None:
             raise ValueError("No exception to find")
         
         # Now store the exception info in sys.last_type etc.
         # 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
         
         return etype, value, tb
     
     def show_usage_error(self, exc):
         """Show a short message for UsageErrors
         
         These are special exceptions that shouldn't show a traceback.
         """
         self.write_err("UsageError: %s" % exc)
     
     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:
             try:
                 etype, value, tb = self._get_exc_info(exc_tuple)
             except ValueError:
                 self.write_err('No traceback available to show.\n')
                 return
             
             if issubclass(etype, 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.show_usage_error(value)
             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:
                     try:
                         # Exception classes can customise their traceback - we
                         # use this in IPython.parallel for exceptions occurring
                         # in the engines. This should return a list of strings.
                         stb = value._render_traceback_()
                     except Exception:
                         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(self.InteractiveTB.stb2text(stb), file=io.stdout)
 
     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 = self._get_exc_info()
 
         if filename and issubclass(etype, SyntaxError):
             try:
                 value.filename = filename
             except:
                 # Not the format we expect; leave it alone
                 pass
         
         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
             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)
             # Store these so we can restore them if something like rpy2 modifies
             # them.
             self.readline_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):
                 try:
                     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
                 
                 except TypeError:
                     # The history DB can get corrupted so it returns strings
                     # containing null bytes, which readline objects to.
                     continue
 
     @skip_doctest
     def set_next_input(self, s):
         """ Sets the 'default' input string for the next command line.
 
         Requires readline.
 
         Example::
 
             In [1]: _ip.set_next_input("Hello Word")
             In [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, reset_completer)
 
         self.Completer = IPCompleter(shell=self,
                                      namespace=self.user_ns,
                                      global_namespace=self.user_global_ns,
                                      use_readline=self.has_readline,
                                      parent=self,
                                      )
         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')
         self.set_hook('complete_command', reset_completer, str_key = '%reset')
 
         # 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):
         from IPython.core import magics as m
         self.magics_manager = magic.MagicsManager(shell=self,
                                    parent=self,
                                    user_magics=m.UserMagics(self))
         self.configurables.append(self.magics_manager)
 
         # Expose as public API from the magics manager
         self.register_magics = self.magics_manager.register
         self.define_magic = self.magics_manager.define_magic
 
         self.register_magics(m.AutoMagics, m.BasicMagics, m.CodeMagics,
             m.ConfigMagics, m.DeprecatedMagics, m.DisplayMagics, m.ExecutionMagics,
             m.ExtensionMagics, m.HistoryMagics, m.LoggingMagics,
             m.NamespaceMagics, m.OSMagics, m.PylabMagics, m.ScriptMagics,
         )
 
         # Register Magic Aliases
         mman = self.magics_manager
         # FIXME: magic aliases should be defined by the Magics classes
         # or in MagicsManager, not here
         mman.register_alias('ed', 'edit')
         mman.register_alias('hist', 'history')
         mman.register_alias('rep', 'recall')
         mman.register_alias('SVG', 'svg', 'cell')
         mman.register_alias('HTML', 'html', 'cell')
         mman.register_alias('file', 'writefile', 'cell')
 
         # 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 %s' % self.colors)
     
     # Defined here so that it's included in the documentation
     @functools.wraps(magic.MagicsManager.register_function)
     def register_magic_function(self, func, magic_kind='line', magic_name=None):
         self.magics_manager.register_function(func, 
                                   magic_kind=magic_kind, magic_name=magic_name)
 
     def run_line_magic(self, magic_name, line):
         """Execute the given line magic.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         magic_name : str
           Name of the desired magic function, without '%' prefix.
 
         line : str
           The rest of the input line as a single string.
         """
         fn = self.find_line_magic(magic_name)
         if fn is None:
             cm = self.find_cell_magic(magic_name)
             etpl = "Line magic function `%%%s` not found%s."
             extra = '' if cm is None else (' (But cell magic `%%%%%s` exists, '
                                     'did you mean that instead?)' % magic_name )
             error(etpl % (magic_name, extra))
         else:
             # Note: this is the distance in the stack to the user's frame.
             # This will need to be updated if the internal calling logic gets
             # refactored, or else we'll be expanding the wrong variables.
             stack_depth = 2
             magic_arg_s = self.var_expand(line, stack_depth)
             # Put magic args in a list so we can call with f(*a) syntax
             args = [magic_arg_s]
             kwargs = {}
             # Grab local namespace if we need it:
             if getattr(fn, "needs_local_scope", False):
                 kwargs['local_ns'] = sys._getframe(stack_depth).f_locals
             with self.builtin_trap:
                 result = fn(*args,**kwargs)
             return result
 
     def run_cell_magic(self, magic_name, line, cell):
         """Execute the given cell magic.
         
         Parameters
         ----------
         magic_name : str
           Name of the desired magic function, without '%' prefix.
 
         line : str
           The rest of the first input line as a single string.
 
         cell : str
           The body of the cell as a (possibly multiline) string.
         """
         fn = self.find_cell_magic(magic_name)
         if fn is None:
             lm = self.find_line_magic(magic_name)
             etpl = "Cell magic `%%{0}` not found{1}."
             extra = '' if lm is None else (' (But line magic `%{0}` exists, '
                             'did you mean that instead?)'.format(magic_name))
             error(etpl.format(magic_name, extra))
         elif cell == '':
             message = '%%{0} is a cell magic, but the cell body is empty.'.format(magic_name)
             if self.find_line_magic(magic_name) is not None:
                 message += ' Did you mean the line magic %{0} (single %)?'.format(magic_name)
             raise UsageError(message)
         else:
             # Note: this is the distance in the stack to the user's frame.
             # This will need to be updated if the internal calling logic gets
             # refactored, or else we'll be expanding the wrong variables.
             stack_depth = 2
             magic_arg_s = self.var_expand(line, stack_depth)
             with self.builtin_trap:
                 result = fn(magic_arg_s, cell)
             return result
 
     def find_line_magic(self, magic_name):
         """Find and return a line magic by name.
 
         Returns None if the magic isn't found."""
         return self.magics_manager.magics['line'].get(magic_name)
 
     def find_cell_magic(self, magic_name):
         """Find and return a cell magic by name.
 
         Returns None if the magic isn't found."""
         return self.magics_manager.magics['cell'].get(magic_name)
 
     def find_magic(self, magic_name, magic_kind='line'):
         """Find and return a magic of the given type by name.
 
         Returns None if the magic isn't found."""
         return self.magics_manager.magics[magic_kind].get(magic_name)
 
     def magic(self, arg_s):
         """DEPRECATED. Use run_line_magic() instead.
 
         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.
         """
         # TODO: should we issue a loud deprecation warning here?
         magic_name, _, magic_arg_s = arg_s.partition(' ')
         magic_name = magic_name.lstrip(prefilter.ESC_MAGIC)
         return self.run_line_magic(magic_name, magic_arg_s)
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # 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, string_types):
             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=1))
 
     def system_raw(self, cmd):
         """Call the given cmd in a subprocess using os.system on Windows or
         subprocess.call using the system shell on other platforms.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         cmd : str
           Command to execute.
         """
         cmd = self.var_expand(cmd, depth=1)
         # 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)
             # Call the cmd using the OS shell, instead of the default /bin/sh, if set.
             ec = subprocess.call(cmd, shell=True, executable=os.environ.get('SHELL', None))
             # exit code is positive for program failure, or negative for
             # terminating signal number.
         
         # 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, depth=0):
         """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.
         depth : int, optional
           How many frames above the caller are the local variables which should
           be expanded in the command string? The default (0) assumes that the
           expansion variables are in the stack frame calling this function.
         """
         if cmd.rstrip().endswith('&'):
             # this is *far* from a rigorous test
             raise OSError("Background processes not supported.")
         out = getoutput(self.var_expand(cmd, depth=depth+1))
         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, parent=self)
         self.configurables.append(self.alias_manager)
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Things related to extensions
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def init_extension_manager(self):
         self.extension_manager = ExtensionManager(shell=self, parent=self)
         self.configurables.append(self.extension_manager)
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Things related to payloads
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def init_payload(self):
         self.payload_manager = PayloadManager(parent=self)
         self.configurables.append(self.payload_manager)
     
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Things related to widgets
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     
     def init_comms(self):
         # not implemented in the base class
         pass
     
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Things related to the prefilter
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def init_prefilter(self):
         self.prefilter_manager = PrefilterManager(shell=self, parent=self)
         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.
         """
         if not self.show_rewritten_input:
             return
         
         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(rw, file=io.stdout)
         except UnicodeEncodeError:
             print("------> " + cmd)
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Things related to extracting values/expressions from kernel and user_ns
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def _user_obj_error(self):
         """return simple exception dict
         
         for use in user_variables / expressions
         """
         
         etype, evalue, tb = self._get_exc_info()
         stb = self.InteractiveTB.get_exception_only(etype, evalue)
         
         exc_info = {
             u'status' : 'error',
             u'traceback' : stb,
             u'ename' : unicode_type(etype.__name__),
             u'evalue' : py3compat.safe_unicode(evalue),
         }
 
         return exc_info
     
     def _format_user_obj(self, obj):
         """format a user object to display dict
         
         for use in user_expressions / variables
         """
         
         data, md = self.display_formatter.format(obj)
         value = {
             'status' : 'ok',
             'data' : data,
             'metadata' : md,
         }
         return 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 rich mime-type repr(s) of each value.
         Each element will be a sub-dict of the same form as a display_data message.
         """
         out = {}
         user_ns = self.user_ns
         
         for varname in names:
             try:
                 value = self._format_user_obj(user_ns[varname])
             except:
                 value = self._user_obj_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 rich mime-typed
         display_data of each value.
         """
         out = {}
         user_ns = self.user_ns
         global_ns = self.user_global_ns
         
         for key, expr in iteritems(expressions):
             try:
                 value = self._format_user_obj(eval(expr, global_ns, user_ns))
             except:
                 value = self._user_obj_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, 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 as 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 and not kw['exit_ignore']:
                     self.showtraceback(exception_only=True)
             except:
                 if kw['raise_exceptions']:
                     raise
                 # tb offset is 2 because we wrap execfile
                 self.showtraceback(tb_offset=2)
 
     def safe_execfile_ipy(self, fname):
         """Like safe_execfile, but for .ipy or .ipynb files with IPython syntax.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         fname : str
             The name of the file to execute.  The filename must have a
             .ipy or .ipynb 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)
         
         def get_cells():
             """generator for sequence of code blocks to run"""
             if fname.endswith('.ipynb'):
                 from IPython.nbformat import current
                 with open(fname) as f:
                     nb = current.read(f, 'json')
                     if not nb.worksheets:
                         return
                     for cell in nb.worksheets[0].cells:
                         if cell.cell_type == 'code':
                             yield cell.input
             else:
                 with open(fname) as f:
                     yield f.read()
 
         with prepended_to_syspath(dname):
             try:
                 for cell in get_cells():
                     # self.run_cell currently captures all exceptions
                     # raised in user code.  It would be nice if there were
                     # versions of run_cell that did raise, so
                     # we could catch the errors.
                     self.run_cell(cell, store_history=False, shell_futures=False)
             except:
                 self.showtraceback()
                 warn('Unknown failure executing file: <%s>' % fname)
 
     def safe_run_module(self, mod_name, where):
         """A safe version of runpy.run_module().
 
         This version will never throw an exception, but instead print
         helpful error messages to the screen.
 
         `SystemExit` exceptions with status code 0 or None are ignored.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         mod_name : string
             The name of the module to be executed.
         where : dict
             The globals namespace.
         """
         try:
             try:
                 where.update(
                     runpy.run_module(str(mod_name), run_name="__main__",
                                      alter_sys=True)
                     )
             except SystemExit as status:
                 if status.code:
                     raise
         except:
             self.showtraceback()
             warn('Unknown failure executing module: <%s>' % mod_name)
 
     def _run_cached_cell_magic(self, magic_name, line):
         """Special method to call a cell magic with the data stored in self.
         """
         cell = self._current_cell_magic_body
         self._current_cell_magic_body = None
         return self.run_cell_magic(magic_name, line, cell)
 
     def run_cell(self, raw_cell, store_history=False, silent=False, shell_futures=True):
         """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.
         silent : bool
           If True, avoid side-effects, such as implicit displayhooks and
           and logging.  silent=True forces store_history=False.
         shell_futures : bool
           If True, the code will share future statements with the interactive
           shell. It will both be affected by previous __future__ imports, and
           any __future__ imports in the code will affect the shell. If False,
           __future__ imports are not shared in either direction.
         """
         if (not raw_cell) or raw_cell.isspace():
             return
         
         if silent:
             store_history = False
 
         self.events.trigger('pre_execute')
         if not silent:
             self.events.trigger('pre_run_cell')
 
         # If any of our input transformation (input_transformer_manager or
         # prefilter_manager) raises an exception, we store it in this variable
         # so that we can display the error after logging the input and storing
         # it in the history.
         preprocessing_exc_tuple = None
         try:
             # Static input transformations
             cell = self.input_transformer_manager.transform_cell(raw_cell)
         except SyntaxError:
             preprocessing_exc_tuple = sys.exc_info()
             cell = raw_cell  # cell has to exist so it can be stored/logged
         else:
             if len(cell.splitlines()) == 1:
                 # Dynamic transformations - only applied for single line commands
                 with self.builtin_trap:
                     try:
                         # use prefilter_lines to handle trailing newlines
                         # restore trailing newline for ast.parse
                         cell = self.prefilter_manager.prefilter_lines(cell) + '\n'
                     except Exception:
                         # don't allow prefilter errors to crash IPython
                         preprocessing_exc_tuple = sys.exc_info()
 
         # Store raw and processed history
         if store_history:
             self.history_manager.store_inputs(self.execution_count,
                                               cell, raw_cell)
         if not silent:
             self.logger.log(cell, raw_cell)
 
         # Display the exception if input processing failed.
         if preprocessing_exc_tuple is not None:
             self.showtraceback(preprocessing_exc_tuple)
             if store_history:
                 self.execution_count += 1
             return
 
         # Our own compiler remembers the __future__ environment. If we want to
         # run code with a separate __future__ environment, use the default
         # compiler
         compiler = self.compile if shell_futures else CachingCompiler()
 
         with self.builtin_trap:
             cell_name = self.compile.cache(cell, self.execution_count)
 
             with self.display_trap:
                 # Compile to bytecode
                 try:
                     code_ast = compiler.ast_parse(cell, filename=cell_name)
                 except IndentationError:
                     self.showindentationerror()
                     if store_history:
                         self.execution_count += 1
                     return None
                 except (OverflowError, SyntaxError, ValueError, TypeError,
                         MemoryError):
                     self.showsyntaxerror()
                     if store_history:
                         self.execution_count += 1
                     return None
 
                 # Apply AST transformations
                 code_ast = self.transform_ast(code_ast)
 
                 # Execute the user code
                 interactivity = "none" if silent else self.ast_node_interactivity
                 self.run_ast_nodes(code_ast.body, cell_name,
                                    interactivity=interactivity, compiler=compiler)
                 
                 self.events.trigger('post_execute')
                 if not silent:
                     self.events.trigger('post_run_cell')
 
         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 transform_ast(self, node):
         """Apply the AST transformations from self.ast_transformers
         
         Parameters
         ----------
         node : ast.Node
           The root node to be transformed. Typically called with the ast.Module
           produced by parsing user input.
         
         Returns
         -------
         An ast.Node corresponding to the node it was called with. Note that it
         may also modify the passed object, so don't rely on references to the
         original AST.
         """
         for transformer in self.ast_transformers:
             try:
                 node = transformer.visit(node)
             except Exception:
                 warn("AST transformer %r threw an error. It will be unregistered." % transformer)
                 self.ast_transformers.remove(transformer)
         
         if self.ast_transformers:
             ast.fix_missing_locations(node)
         return node
                 
 
     def run_ast_nodes(self, nodelist, cell_name, interactivity='last_expr',
                         compiler=compile):
         """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.
         compiler : callable
           A function with the same interface as the built-in compile(), to turn
           the AST nodes into code objects. Default is the built-in compile().
         """
         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 = compiler(mod, cell_name, "exec")
                 if self.run_code(code):
                     return True
 
             for i, node in enumerate(to_run_interactive):
                 mod = ast.Interactive([node])
                 code = compiler(mod, cell_name, "single")
                 if self.run_code(code):
                     return True
 
             # Flush softspace
             if softspace(sys.stdout, 0):
                 print()
 
         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
 
         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, 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
         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_matplotlib(self, gui=None):
         """Enable interactive matplotlib and inline figure support.
         
         This takes the following steps:
         
         1. select the appropriate eventloop and matplotlib backend
         2. set up matplotlib for interactive use with that backend
         3. configure formatters for inline figure display
         4. enable the selected gui eventloop
         
         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.
         """
         from IPython.core import pylabtools as pt
         gui, backend = pt.find_gui_and_backend(gui, self.pylab_gui_select)
     
         if gui != 'inline':
             # If we have our first gui selection, store it
             if self.pylab_gui_select is None:
                 self.pylab_gui_select = gui
             # Otherwise if they are different
             elif gui != self.pylab_gui_select:
                 print ('Warning: Cannot change to a different GUI toolkit: %s.'
                         ' Using %s instead.' % (gui, self.pylab_gui_select))
                 gui, backend = pt.find_gui_and_backend(self.pylab_gui_select)
         
         pt.activate_matplotlib(backend)
         pt.configure_inline_support(self, backend)
         
         # Now we must activate the gui pylab wants to use, and fix %run to take
         # plot updates into account
         self.enable_gui(gui)
         self.magics_manager.registry['ExecutionMagics'].default_runner = \
             pt.mpl_runner(self.safe_execfile)
         
         return gui, backend
 
     def enable_pylab(self, gui=None, import_all=True, welcome_message=False):
         """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 ``gui`` argument.
         
         This method only adds preloading the namespace to InteractiveShell.enable_matplotlib.
 
         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.
         import_all : optional, bool, default: True
           Whether to do `from numpy import *` and `from pylab import *`
           in addition to module imports.
         welcome_message : deprecated
           This argument is ignored, no welcome message will be displayed.
         """
         from IPython.core.pylabtools import import_pylab
         
         gui, backend = self.enable_matplotlib(gui)
         
         # 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 = {}
         import_pylab(ns, import_all)
         # warn about clobbered names
         ignored = set(["__builtins__"])
         both = set(ns).intersection(self.user_ns).difference(ignored)
         clobbered = [ name for name in both if self.user_ns[name] is not ns[name] ]
         self.user_ns.update(ns)
         self.user_ns_hidden.update(ns)
         return gui, backend, clobbered
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # 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)
         try:
             # We have to use .vformat() here, because 'self' is a valid and common
             # name, and expanding **ns for .format() would make it collide with
             # the 'self' argument of the method.
             cmd = formatter.vformat(cmd, args=[], kwargs=ns)
         except Exception:
             # if formatter couldn't format, just let it go untransformed
             pass
         return cmd
 
     def mktempfile(self, data=None, prefix='ipython_edit_'):
         """Make a new tempfile and return its filename.
 
         This makes a call to tempfile.mkstemp (created in a tempfile.mkdtemp),
         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."""
 
         dirname = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix=prefix)
         self.tempdirs.append(dirname)
 
         handle, filename = tempfile.mkstemp('.py', prefix, dir=dirname)
         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 extract_input_lines(self, range_str, raw=False):
         """Return as a string a set of input history slices.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         range_str : string
             The set of slices is given as a string, like "~5/6-~4/2 4:8 9",
             since this function is for use by magic functions which get their
             arguments as strings. The number before the / is the session
             number: ~n goes n back from the current session.
 
         raw : bool, optional
             By default, the processed input is used.  If this is true, the raw
             input history is used instead.
 
         Notes
         -----
 
         Slices can be described with two notations:
 
         * ``N:M`` -> standard python form, means including items N...(M-1).
         * ``N-M`` -> include items N..M (closed endpoint).
         """
         lines = self.history_manager.get_range_by_str(range_str, raw=raw)
         return "\n".join(x for _, _, x in lines)
 
-    def find_user_code(self, target, raw=True, py_only=False, skip_encoding_cookie=True):
+    def find_user_code(self, target, raw=True, py_only=False, skip_encoding_cookie=True, search_ns=False):
         """Get a code string from history, file, url, 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), url,
           correspnding .py file, 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.
 
         py_only : bool (default False)
           Only try to fetch python code, do not try alternative methods to decode file
           if unicode fails.
 
         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
         utarget = unquote_filename(target)
         try:
             if utarget.startswith(('http://', 'https://')):
                 return openpy.read_py_url(utarget, skip_encoding_cookie=skip_encoding_cookie)
         except UnicodeDecodeError:
             if not py_only :
                 # Deferred import
                 try:
                     from urllib.request import urlopen  # Py3
                 except ImportError:
                     from urllib import urlopen
                 response = urlopen(target)
                 return response.read().decode('latin1')
             raise ValueError(("'%s' seem to be unreadable.") % utarget)
 
         potential_target = [target]
         try :
             potential_target.insert(0,get_py_filename(target))
         except IOError:
             pass
 
         for tgt in potential_target :
             if os.path.isfile(tgt):                        # Read file
                 try :
                     return openpy.read_py_file(tgt, skip_encoding_cookie=skip_encoding_cookie)
                 except UnicodeDecodeError :
                     if not py_only :
                         with io_open(tgt,'r', encoding='latin1') as f :
                             return f.read()
                     raise ValueError(("'%s' seem to be unreadable.") % target)
             elif os.path.isdir(os.path.expanduser(tgt)):
                 raise ValueError("'%s' is a directory, not a regular file." % target)
 
+        if search_ns:
+            # Inspect namespace to load object source
+            object_info = self.object_inspect(target, detail_level=1)
+            if object_info['found'] and object_info['source']:
+                return object_info['source']
+
         try:                                              # User namespace
             codeobj = eval(target, self.user_ns)
         except Exception:
             raise ValueError(("'%s' was not found in history, as a file, url, "
                                 "nor in the user namespace.") % target)
+
         if isinstance(codeobj, string_types):
             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 and folders left around
         for tfile in self.tempfiles:
             try:
                 os.unlink(tfile)
             except OSError:
                 pass
 
         for tdir in self.tempdirs:
             try:
                 os.rmdir(tdir)
             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(with_metaclass(abc.ABCMeta, object)):
     """An abstract base class for InteractiveShell."""
 
 InteractiveShellABC.register(InteractiveShell)

IPython/core/magics/code.py

@@ -1,696 +1,703 b''
 """Implementation of code management magic functions.
 """
 from __future__ import print_function
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #  Copyright (c) 2012 The IPython Development Team.
 #
 #  Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.
 #
 #  The full license is in the file COPYING.txt, distributed with this software.
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Imports
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # Stdlib
 import inspect
 import io
 import os
 import re
 import sys
 import ast
 from itertools import chain
 
 # Our own packages
 from IPython.core.error import TryNext, StdinNotImplementedError, UsageError
 from IPython.core.macro import Macro
 from IPython.core.magic import Magics, magics_class, line_magic
 from IPython.core.oinspect import find_file, find_source_lines
 from IPython.testing.skipdoctest import skip_doctest
 from IPython.utils import py3compat
 from IPython.utils.py3compat import string_types
 from IPython.utils.contexts import preserve_keys
 from IPython.utils.path import get_py_filename, unquote_filename
 from IPython.utils.warn import warn, error
 from IPython.utils.text import get_text_list
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Magic implementation classes
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # Used for exception handling in magic_edit
 class MacroToEdit(ValueError): pass
 
 ipython_input_pat = re.compile(r"<ipython\-input\-(\d+)-[a-z\d]+>$")
 
 # To match, e.g. 8-10 1:5 :10 3-
 range_re = re.compile(r"""
 (?P<start>\d+)?
 ((?P<sep>[\-:])
  (?P<end>\d+)?)?
 $""", re.VERBOSE)
 
 
 def extract_code_ranges(ranges_str):
     """Turn a string of range for %%load into 2-tuples of (start, stop)
     ready to use as a slice of the content splitted by lines.
 
     Examples
     --------
     list(extract_input_ranges("5-10 2"))
     [(4, 10), (1, 2)]
     """
     for range_str in ranges_str.split():
         rmatch = range_re.match(range_str)
         if not rmatch:
             continue
         sep = rmatch.group("sep")
         start = rmatch.group("start")
         end = rmatch.group("end")
 
         if sep == '-':
             start = int(start) - 1 if start else None
             end = int(end) if end else None
         elif sep == ':':
             start = int(start) - 1 if start else None
             end = int(end) - 1 if end else None
         else:
             end = int(start)
             start = int(start) - 1
         yield (start, end)
 
 
 @skip_doctest
 def extract_symbols(code, symbols):
     """
     Return a tuple  (blocks, not_found)
     where ``blocks`` is a list of code fragments
     for each symbol parsed from code, and ``not_found`` are
     symbols not found in the code.
 
     For example::
 
         >>> code = '''a = 10
 
         def b(): return 42
 
         class A: pass'''
 
         >>> extract_symbols(code, 'A,b,z')
         (["class A: pass", "def b(): return 42"], ['z'])
     """
     symbols = symbols.split(',')
 
     # this will raise SyntaxError if code isn't valid Python
     py_code = ast.parse(code)
 
     marks = [(getattr(s, 'name', None), s.lineno) for s in py_code.body]
     code = code.split('\n')
 
     symbols_lines = {}
     
     # we already know the start_lineno of each symbol (marks). 
     # To find each end_lineno, we traverse in reverse order until each 
     # non-blank line
     end = len(code)  
     for name, start in reversed(marks):
         while not code[end - 1].strip():
             end -= 1
         if name:
             symbols_lines[name] = (start - 1, end)
         end = start - 1
 
     # Now symbols_lines is a map
     # {'symbol_name': (start_lineno, end_lineno), ...}
     
     # fill a list with chunks of codes for each requested symbol
     blocks = []
     not_found = []
     for symbol in symbols:
         if symbol in symbols_lines:
             start, end = symbols_lines[symbol]
             blocks.append('\n'.join(code[start:end]) + '\n')
         else:
             not_found.append(symbol)
 
     return blocks, not_found
 
 
 class InteractivelyDefined(Exception):
     """Exception for interactively defined variable in magic_edit"""
     def __init__(self, index):
         self.index = index
 
 
 @magics_class
 class CodeMagics(Magics):
     """Magics related to code management (loading, saving, editing, ...)."""
 
     @line_magic
     def save(self, parameter_s=''):
         """Save a set of lines or a macro to a given filename.
 
         Usage:\\
           %save [options] filename n1-n2 n3-n4 ... n5 .. n6 ...
 
         Options:
 
           -r: use 'raw' input.  By default, the 'processed' history is used,
           so that magics are loaded in their transformed version to valid
           Python.  If this option is given, the raw input as typed as the
           command line is used instead.
           
           -f: force overwrite.  If file exists, %save will prompt for overwrite
           unless -f is given.
 
           -a: append to the file instead of overwriting it.
 
         This function uses the same syntax as %history for input ranges,
         then saves the lines to the filename you specify.
 
         It adds a '.py' extension to the file if you don't do so yourself, and
         it asks for confirmation before overwriting existing files.
 
         If `-r` option is used, the default extension is `.ipy`.
         """
 
         opts,args = self.parse_options(parameter_s,'fra',mode='list')
         if not args:
             raise UsageError('Missing filename.')
         raw = 'r' in opts
         force = 'f' in opts
         append = 'a' in opts
         mode = 'a' if append else 'w'
         ext = u'.ipy' if raw else u'.py'
         fname, codefrom = unquote_filename(args[0]), " ".join(args[1:])
         if not fname.endswith((u'.py',u'.ipy')):
             fname += ext
         file_exists = os.path.isfile(fname)
         if file_exists and not force and not append:
             try:
                 overwrite = self.shell.ask_yes_no('File `%s` exists. Overwrite (y/[N])? ' % fname, default='n')
             except StdinNotImplementedError:
                 print("File `%s` exists. Use `%%save -f %s` to force overwrite" % (fname, parameter_s))
                 return
             if not overwrite :
                 print('Operation cancelled.')
                 return
         try:
             cmds = self.shell.find_user_code(codefrom,raw)
         except (TypeError, ValueError) as e:
             print(e.args[0])
             return
         out = py3compat.cast_unicode(cmds)
         with io.open(fname, mode, encoding="utf-8") as f:
             if not file_exists or not append:
                 f.write(u"# coding: utf-8\n")
             f.write(out)
             # make sure we end on a newline
             if not out.endswith(u'\n'):
                 f.write(u'\n')
         print('The following commands were written to file `%s`:' % fname)
         print(cmds)
 
     @line_magic
     def pastebin(self, parameter_s=''):
         """Upload code to Github's Gist paste bin, returning the URL.
 
         Usage:\\
           %pastebin [-d "Custom description"] 1-7
 
         The argument can be an input history range, a filename, or the name of a
         string or macro.
 
         Options:
 
           -d: Pass a custom description for the gist. The default will say
               "Pasted from IPython".
         """
         opts, args = self.parse_options(parameter_s, 'd:')
 
         try:
             code = self.shell.find_user_code(args)
         except (ValueError, TypeError) as e:
             print(e.args[0])
             return
 
         # Deferred import
         try:
             from urllib.request import urlopen # Py 3
         except ImportError:
             from urllib2 import urlopen
         import json
         post_data = json.dumps({
           "description": opts.get('d', "Pasted from IPython"),
           "public": True,
           "files": {
             "file1.py": {
               "content": code
             }
           }
         }).encode('utf-8')
 
         response = urlopen("https://api.github.com/gists", post_data)
         response_data = json.loads(response.read().decode('utf-8'))
         return response_data['html_url']
 
     @line_magic
     def loadpy(self, arg_s):
         """Alias of `%load`
 
         `%loadpy` has gained some flexibility and dropped the requirement of a `.py`
         extension. So it has been renamed simply into %load. You can look at
         `%load`'s docstring for more info.
         """
         self.load(arg_s)
 
     @line_magic
     def load(self, arg_s):
         """Load code into the current frontend.
 
         Usage:\\
           %load [options] source
 
-          where source can be a filename, URL, input history range or macro
+          where source can be a filename, URL, input history range, macro, or
+          element in the user namespace
 
         Options:
 
           -r <lines>: Specify lines or ranges of lines to load from the source.
           Ranges could be specified as x-y (x..y) or in python-style x:y 
           (x..(y-1)). Both limits x and y can be left blank (meaning the 
           beginning and end of the file, respectively).
 
           -s <symbols>: Specify function or classes to load from python source. 
 
           -y : Don't ask confirmation for loading source above 200 000 characters.
 
+          -n : Include the user's namespace when searching for source code.
+
         This magic command can either take a local filename, a URL, an history
         range (see %history) or a macro as argument, it will prompt for
         confirmation before loading source with more than 200 000 characters, unless
         -y flag is passed or if the frontend does not support raw_input::
 
         %load myscript.py
         %load 7-27
         %load myMacro
         %load http://www.example.com/myscript.py
         %load -r 5-10 myscript.py
         %load -r 10-20,30,40: foo.py
         %load -s MyClass,wonder_function myscript.py
+        %load -n MyClass
+        %load -n my_module.wonder_function
         """
-        opts,args = self.parse_options(arg_s,'ys:r:')
+        opts,args = self.parse_options(arg_s,'yns:r:')
 
         if not args:
             raise UsageError('Missing filename, URL, input history range, '
-                             'or macro.')
+                             'macro, or element in the user namespace.')
+
+        search_ns = 'n' in opts
 
-        contents = self.shell.find_user_code(args)
+        contents = self.shell.find_user_code(args, search_ns=search_ns)
 
         if 's' in opts:
             try:
                 blocks, not_found = extract_symbols(contents, opts['s'])
             except SyntaxError:
                 # non python code
                 error("Unable to parse the input as valid Python code")
                 return
 
             if len(not_found) == 1:
                 warn('The symbol `%s` was not found' % not_found[0])
             elif len(not_found) > 1:
                 warn('The symbols %s were not found' % get_text_list(not_found,
                                                                      wrap_item_with='`')
                 )
 
             contents = '\n'.join(blocks)
 
         if 'r' in opts:
             ranges = opts['r'].replace(',', ' ')
             lines = contents.split('\n')
             slices = extract_code_ranges(ranges)
             contents = [lines[slice(*slc)] for slc in slices]
             contents = '\n'.join(chain.from_iterable(contents))
 
         l = len(contents)
 
         # 200 000 is ~ 2500 full 80 caracter lines
         # so in average, more than 5000 lines
         if l > 200000 and 'y' not in opts:
             try:
                 ans = self.shell.ask_yes_no(("The text you're trying to load seems pretty big"\
                 " (%d characters). Continue (y/[N]) ?" % l), default='n' )
             except StdinNotImplementedError:
                 #asume yes if raw input not implemented
                 ans = True
 
             if ans is False :
                 print('Operation cancelled.')
                 return
 
         self.shell.set_next_input(contents)
 
     @staticmethod
     def _find_edit_target(shell, args, opts, last_call):
         """Utility method used by magic_edit to find what to edit."""
 
         def make_filename(arg):
             "Make a filename from the given args"
             arg = unquote_filename(arg)
             try:
                 filename = get_py_filename(arg)
             except IOError:
                 # If it ends with .py but doesn't already exist, assume we want
                 # a new file.
                 if arg.endswith('.py'):
                     filename = arg
                 else:
                     filename = None
             return filename
 
         # Set a few locals from the options for convenience:
         opts_prev = 'p' in opts
         opts_raw = 'r' in opts
 
         # custom exceptions
         class DataIsObject(Exception): pass
 
         # Default line number value
         lineno = opts.get('n',None)
 
         if opts_prev:
             args = '_%s' % last_call[0]
             if args not in shell.user_ns:
                 args = last_call[1]
 
         # by default this is done with temp files, except when the given
         # arg is a filename
         use_temp = True
 
         data = ''
 
         # First, see if the arguments should be a filename.
         filename = make_filename(args)
         if filename:
             use_temp = False
         elif args:
             # Mode where user specifies ranges of lines, like in %macro.
             data = shell.extract_input_lines(args, opts_raw)
             if not data:
                 try:
                     # Load the parameter given as a variable. If not a string,
                     # process it as an object instead (below)
 
                     #print '*** args',args,'type',type(args)  # dbg
                     data = eval(args, shell.user_ns)
                     if not isinstance(data, string_types):
                         raise DataIsObject
 
                 except (NameError,SyntaxError):
                     # given argument is not a variable, try as a filename
                     filename = make_filename(args)
                     if filename is None:
                         warn("Argument given (%s) can't be found as a variable "
                              "or as a filename." % args)
                         return (None, None, None)
                     use_temp = False
 
                 except DataIsObject:
                     # macros have a special edit function
                     if isinstance(data, Macro):
                         raise MacroToEdit(data)
 
                     # For objects, try to edit the file where they are defined
                     filename = find_file(data)
                     if filename:
                         if 'fakemodule' in filename.lower() and \
                             inspect.isclass(data):
                             # class created by %edit? Try to find source
                             # by looking for method definitions instead, the
                             # __module__ in those classes is FakeModule.
                             attrs = [getattr(data, aname) for aname in dir(data)]
                             for attr in attrs:
                                 if not inspect.ismethod(attr):
                                     continue
                                 filename = find_file(attr)
                                 if filename and \
                                   'fakemodule' not in filename.lower():
                                     # change the attribute to be the edit
                                     # target instead
                                     data = attr
                                     break
                         
                         m = ipython_input_pat.match(os.path.basename(filename))
                         if m:
                             raise InteractivelyDefined(int(m.groups()[0]))
                         
                         datafile = 1
                     if filename is None:
                         filename = make_filename(args)
                         datafile = 1
                         if filename is not None:
                             # only warn about this if we get a real name
                             warn('Could not find file where `%s` is defined.\n'
                              'Opening a file named `%s`' % (args, filename))
                     # Now, make sure we can actually read the source (if it was
                     # in a temp file it's gone by now).
                     if datafile:
                         if lineno is None:
                             lineno = find_source_lines(data)
                         if lineno is None:
                             filename = make_filename(args)
                             if filename is None:
                                 warn('The file where `%s` was defined '
                                      'cannot be read or found.' % data)
                                 return (None, None, None)
                     use_temp = False
 
         if use_temp:
             filename = shell.mktempfile(data)
             print('IPython will make a temporary file named:',filename)
 
         # use last_call to remember the state of the previous call, but don't
         # let it be clobbered by successive '-p' calls.
         try:
             last_call[0] = shell.displayhook.prompt_count
             if not opts_prev:
                 last_call[1] = args
         except:
             pass
 
 
         return filename, lineno, use_temp
 
     def _edit_macro(self,mname,macro):
         """open an editor with the macro data in a file"""
         filename = self.shell.mktempfile(macro.value)
         self.shell.hooks.editor(filename)
 
         # and make a new macro object, to replace the old one
         with open(filename) as mfile:
             mvalue = mfile.read()
         self.shell.user_ns[mname] = Macro(mvalue)
 
     @skip_doctest
     @line_magic
     def edit(self, parameter_s='',last_call=['','']):
         """Bring up an editor and execute the resulting code.
 
         Usage:
           %edit [options] [args]
 
         %edit runs IPython's editor hook. The default version of this hook is
         set to call the editor specified by your $EDITOR environment variable.
         If this isn't found, it will default to vi under Linux/Unix and to
         notepad under Windows. See the end of this docstring for how to change
         the editor hook.
 
         You can also set the value of this editor via the
         ``TerminalInteractiveShell.editor`` option in your configuration file.
         This is useful if you wish to use a different editor from your typical
         default with IPython (and for Windows users who typically don't set
         environment variables).
 
         This command allows you to conveniently edit multi-line code right in
         your IPython session.
 
         If called without arguments, %edit opens up an empty editor with a
         temporary file and will execute the contents of this file when you
         close it (don't forget to save it!).
 
 
         Options:
 
         -n <number>: open the editor at a specified line number.  By default,
         the IPython editor hook uses the unix syntax 'editor +N filename', but
         you can configure this by providing your own modified hook if your
         favorite editor supports line-number specifications with a different
         syntax.
 
         -p: this will call the editor with the same data as the previous time
         it was used, regardless of how long ago (in your current session) it
         was.
 
         -r: use 'raw' input.  This option only applies to input taken from the
         user's history.  By default, the 'processed' history is used, so that
         magics are loaded in their transformed version to valid Python.  If
         this option is given, the raw input as typed as the command line is
         used instead.  When you exit the editor, it will be executed by
         IPython's own processor.
 
         -x: do not execute the edited code immediately upon exit. This is
         mainly useful if you are editing programs which need to be called with
         command line arguments, which you can then do using %run.
 
 
         Arguments:
 
         If arguments are given, the following possibilities exist:
 
         - If the argument is a filename, IPython will load that into the
           editor. It will execute its contents with execfile() when you exit,
           loading any code in the file into your interactive namespace.
 
         - The arguments are ranges of input history,  e.g. "7 ~1/4-6".
           The syntax is the same as in the %history magic.
 
         - If the argument is a string variable, its contents are loaded
           into the editor. You can thus edit any string which contains
           python code (including the result of previous edits).
 
         - If the argument is the name of an object (other than a string),
           IPython will try to locate the file where it was defined and open the
           editor at the point where it is defined. You can use `%edit function`
           to load an editor exactly at the point where 'function' is defined,
           edit it and have the file be executed automatically.
 
         - If the object is a macro (see %macro for details), this opens up your
           specified editor with a temporary file containing the macro's data.
           Upon exit, the macro is reloaded with the contents of the file.
 
         Note: opening at an exact line is only supported under Unix, and some
         editors (like kedit and gedit up to Gnome 2.8) do not understand the
         '+NUMBER' parameter necessary for this feature. Good editors like
         (X)Emacs, vi, jed, pico and joe all do.
 
         After executing your code, %edit will return as output the code you
         typed in the editor (except when it was an existing file). This way
         you can reload the code in further invocations of %edit as a variable,
         via _<NUMBER> or Out[<NUMBER>], where <NUMBER> is the prompt number of
         the output.
 
         Note that %edit is also available through the alias %ed.
 
         This is an example of creating a simple function inside the editor and
         then modifying it. First, start up the editor::
 
           In [1]: edit
           Editing... done. Executing edited code...
           Out[1]: 'def foo():\\n    print "foo() was defined in an editing
           session"\\n'
 
         We can then call the function foo()::
 
           In [2]: foo()
           foo() was defined in an editing session
 
         Now we edit foo.  IPython automatically loads the editor with the
         (temporary) file where foo() was previously defined::
 
           In [3]: edit foo
           Editing... done. Executing edited code...
 
         And if we call foo() again we get the modified version::
 
           In [4]: foo()
           foo() has now been changed!
 
         Here is an example of how to edit a code snippet successive
         times. First we call the editor::
 
           In [5]: edit
           Editing... done. Executing edited code...
           hello
           Out[5]: "print 'hello'\\n"
 
         Now we call it again with the previous output (stored in _)::
 
           In [6]: edit _
           Editing... done. Executing edited code...
           hello world
           Out[6]: "print 'hello world'\\n"
 
         Now we call it with the output #8 (stored in _8, also as Out[8])::
 
           In [7]: edit _8
           Editing... done. Executing edited code...
           hello again
           Out[7]: "print 'hello again'\\n"
 
 
         Changing the default editor hook:
 
         If you wish to write your own editor hook, you can put it in a
         configuration file which you load at startup time.  The default hook
         is defined in the IPython.core.hooks module, and you can use that as a
         starting example for further modifications.  That file also has
         general instructions on how to set a new hook for use once you've
         defined it."""
         opts,args = self.parse_options(parameter_s,'prxn:')
 
         try:
             filename, lineno, is_temp = self._find_edit_target(self.shell, 
                                                        args, opts, last_call)
         except MacroToEdit as e:
             self._edit_macro(args, e.args[0])
             return
         except InteractivelyDefined as e:
             print("Editing In[%i]" % e.index)
             args = str(e.index)
             filename, lineno, is_temp = self._find_edit_target(self.shell, 
                                                        args, opts, last_call)
         if filename is None:
             # nothing was found, warnings have already been issued,
             # just give up.
             return
 
         # do actual editing here
         print('Editing...', end=' ')
         sys.stdout.flush()
         try:
             # Quote filenames that may have spaces in them
             if ' ' in filename:
                 filename = "'%s'" % filename
             self.shell.hooks.editor(filename,lineno)
         except TryNext:
             warn('Could not open editor')
             return
 
         # XXX TODO: should this be generalized for all string vars?
         # For now, this is special-cased to blocks created by cpaste
         if args.strip() == 'pasted_block':
             with open(filename, 'r') as f:
                 self.shell.user_ns['pasted_block'] = f.read()
 
         if 'x' in opts:  # -x prevents actual execution
             print()
         else:
             print('done. Executing edited code...')
             with preserve_keys(self.shell.user_ns, '__file__'):
                 if not is_temp:
                     self.shell.user_ns['__file__'] = filename
                 if 'r' in opts:    # Untranslated IPython code
                     with open(filename, 'r') as f:
                         source = f.read()
                     self.shell.run_cell(source, store_history=False)
                 else:
                     self.shell.safe_execfile(filename, self.shell.user_ns,
                                              self.shell.user_ns)
 
         if is_temp:
             try:
                 return open(filename).read()
             except IOError as msg:
                 if msg.filename == filename:
                     warn('File not found. Did you forget to save?')
                     return
                 else:
                     self.shell.showtraceback()

docs/source/interactive/qtconsole.rst

@@ -1,639 +1,650 b''
 .. _qtconsole:
 
 =========================
 A Qt Console for IPython
 =========================
 
 We now have a version of IPython, using the new two-process :ref:`ZeroMQ Kernel
 <ipythonzmq>`, running in a PyQt_ GUI.  This is a very lightweight widget that
 largely feels like a terminal, but provides a number of enhancements only
 possible in a GUI, such as inline figures, proper multiline editing with syntax
 highlighting, graphical calltips, and much more.
 
 .. figure:: ../_images/qtconsole.png
     :width: 400px
     :alt: IPython Qt console with embedded plots
     :align: center
     :target: ../_images/qtconsole.png
 
     The Qt console for IPython, using inline matplotlib plots.
 
 To get acquainted with the Qt console, type `%guiref` to see a quick
 introduction of its main features.
 
 The Qt frontend has hand-coded emacs-style bindings for text navigation. This
 is not yet configurable.
 
 .. tip::
 
    Since the Qt console tries hard to behave like a terminal, by default it
    immediately executes single lines of input that are complete.  If you want
    to force multiline input, hit :kbd:`Ctrl-Enter` at the end of the first line
    instead of :kbd:`Enter`, and it will open a new line for input.  At any
    point in a multiline block, you can force its execution (without having to
    go to the bottom) with :kbd:`Shift-Enter`.
 
 ``%load``
 =========
 
 The new ``%load`` magic (previously ``%loadpy``) takes any script, and pastes
 its contents as your next input, so you can edit it before executing. The
 script may be on your machine, but you can also specify an history range, or a
 url, and it will download the script from the web. This is particularly useful
 for playing with examples from documentation, such as matplotlib.
 
 .. sourcecode:: ipython
 
     In [6]: %load http://matplotlib.org/plot_directive/mpl_examples/mplot3d/contour3d_demo.py
 
     In [7]: from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import axes3d
        ...: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
        ...:
        ...: fig = plt.figure()
        ...: ax = fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d')
        ...: X, Y, Z = axes3d.get_test_data(0.05)
        ...: cset = ax.contour(X, Y, Z)
        ...: ax.clabel(cset, fontsize=9, inline=1)
        ...:
        ...: plt.show()
 
+The ``%load`` magic can also load source code from objects in the user or 
+global namespace by invoking the ``-n`` option.
+
+.. sourcecode:: ipython
+
+   In [1]: import hello_world
+      ...: %load -n hello_world.say_hello
+
+   In [3]: def say_hello() :
+      ...:    print("Hello World!") 
+
 Inline Matplotlib
 =================
 
 One of the most exciting features of the QtConsole is embedded matplotlib
 figures. You can use any standard matplotlib GUI backend
 to draw the figures, and since there is now a two-process model, there is no
 longer a conflict between user input and the drawing eventloop.
 
 .. image:: figs/besselj.png
     :width: 519px
 
 .. _display:
 
 :func:`display`
 ***************
 
 IPython provides a function :func:`display` for displaying rich representations
 of objects if they are available. The IPython display
 system provides a mechanism for specifying PNG or SVG (and more)
 representations of objects for GUI frontends.
 When you enable matplotlib integration via the ``%matplotlib`` magic, IPython registers
 convenient PNG and SVG renderers for matplotlib figures, so you can embed them
 in your document by calling :func:`display` on one or more of them. This is
 especially useful for saving_ your work.
 
 .. sourcecode:: ipython
 
     In [4]: from IPython.display import display
     
     In [5]: plt.plot(range(5)) # plots in the matplotlib window
     
     In [6]: display(plt.gcf()) # embeds the current figure in the qtconsole
     
     In [7]: display(*getfigs()) # embeds all active figures in the qtconsole
 
 If you have a reference to a matplotlib figure object, you can always display
 that specific figure:
 
 .. sourcecode:: ipython
 
    In [1]: f = plt.figure()
 
    In [2]: plt.plot(np.rand(100))
    Out[2]: [<matplotlib.lines.Line2D at 0x7fc6ac03dd90>]
 
    In [3]: display(f)
 
    # Plot is shown here
 
    In [4]: plt.title('A title')
    Out[4]: <matplotlib.text.Text at 0x7fc6ac023450>
 
    In [5]: display(f)
 
    # Updated plot with title is shown here.
 
 .. _inline:
 
 ``--matplotlib inline``
 ***********************
 
 If you want to have all of your figures embedded in your session, instead of
 calling :func:`display`, you can specify ``--matplotlib inline`` when you start the
 console, and each time you make a plot, it will show up in your document, as if
 you had called :func:`display(fig)`.
 
 The inline backend can use either SVG or PNG figures (PNG being the default).
 It also supports the special key ``'retina'``, which is 2x PNG for high-DPI displays.
 To switch between them, set the ``InlineBackend.figure_format`` configurable
 in a config file, or via the ``%config`` magic:
 
 .. sourcecode:: ipython
 
     In [10]: %config InlineBackend.figure_format = 'svg'
 
 .. note::
 
     Changing the inline figure format also affects calls to :func:`display` above,
     even if you are not using the inline backend for all figures.
 
 By default, IPython closes all figures at the completion of each execution. This means you
 don't have to manually close figures, which is less convenient when figures aren't attached
 to windows with an obvious close button.  It also means that the first matplotlib call in
 each cell will always create a new figure:
 
 .. sourcecode:: ipython
 
     In [11]: plt.plot(range(100))
     <single-line plot>
     
     In [12]: plt.plot([1,3,2])
     <another single-line plot>
 
 
 However, it does prevent the list of active figures surviving from one input cell to the
 next, so if you want to continue working with a figure, you must hold on to a reference to
 it:
 
 .. sourcecode:: ipython
 
     In [11]: fig = gcf()
        ....: fig.plot(rand(100))
     <plot>
     In [12]: fig.title('Random Title')
     <redraw plot with title>
 
 This behavior is controlled by the :attr:`InlineBackend.close_figures` configurable, and
 if you set it to False, via %config or config file, then IPython will *not* close figures,
 and tools like :func:`gcf`, :func:`gca`, :func:`getfigs` will behave the same as they
 do with other backends.  You will, however, have to manually close figures:
 
 .. sourcecode:: ipython
 
     # close all active figures:
     In [13]: [ fig.close() for fig in getfigs() ]
 
 
 
 .. _saving:
 
 Saving and Printing
 ===================
 
 IPythonQt has the ability to save your current session, as either HTML or
 XHTML. If you have been using :func:`display` or inline_ matplotlib, your figures
 will be PNG in HTML, or inlined as SVG in XHTML. PNG images have the option to
 be either in an external folder, as in many browsers' "Webpage, Complete"
 option, or inlined as well, for a larger, but more portable file.
 
 .. note::
 
     Export to SVG+XHTML requires that you are using SVG figures, which is *not*
     the default.  To switch the inline figure format to use SVG during an active
     session, do:
     
     .. sourcecode:: ipython
     
         In [10]: %config InlineBackend.figure_format = 'svg'
     
     Or, you can add the same line (c.Inline... instead of %config Inline...) to
     your config files.
     
     This will only affect figures plotted after making this call
 
 
 The widget also exposes the ability to print directly, via the default print
 shortcut or context menu.
 
 
 .. Note:: 
 
     Saving is only available to richtext Qt widgets, which are used by default,
     but if you pass the ``--plain`` flag, saving will not be available to you.
 
 
 See these examples of :download:`png/html<figs/jn.html>` and
 :download:`svg/xhtml <figs/jn.xhtml>` output. Note that syntax highlighting
 does not survive export. This is a known issue, and is being investigated.
 
 
 Colors and Highlighting
 =======================
 
 Terminal IPython has always had some coloring, but never syntax
 highlighting. There are a few simple color choices, specified by the ``colors``
 flag or ``%colors`` magic:
 
 * LightBG for light backgrounds
 * Linux for dark backgrounds
 * NoColor for a simple colorless terminal
 
 The Qt widget has full support for the ``colors`` flag used in the terminal shell.
 
 The Qt widget, however, has full syntax highlighting as you type, handled by
 the `pygments`_ library. The ``style`` argument exposes access to any style by
 name that can be found by pygments, and there are several already
 installed. The ``colors`` argument, if unspecified, will be guessed based on
 the chosen style. Similarly, there are default styles associated with each
 ``colors`` option.
 
 
 Screenshot of ``ipython qtconsole --colors=linux``, which uses the 'monokai'
 theme by default:
 
 .. image:: figs/colors_dark.png
     :width: 627px
     
 .. Note::
 
     Calling ``ipython qtconsole -h`` will show all the style names that
     pygments can find on your system.
 
 You can also pass the filename of a custom CSS stylesheet, if you want to do
 your own coloring, via the ``stylesheet`` argument.  The default LightBG
 stylesheet:
 
 .. sourcecode:: css
 
     QPlainTextEdit, QTextEdit { background-color: white;
             color: black ;
             selection-background-color: #ccc}
     .error { color: red; }
     .in-prompt { color: navy; }
     .in-prompt-number { font-weight: bold; }
     .out-prompt { color: darkred; }
     .out-prompt-number { font-weight: bold; }
     /* .inverted is used to highlight selected completion */
     .inverted { background-color: black ; color: white; }
 
 Fonts
 =====
 
 The QtConsole has configurable via the ConsoleWidget. To change these, set the
 ``font_family`` or ``font_size`` traits of the ConsoleWidget. For instance, to
 use 9pt Anonymous Pro::
 
     $> ipython qtconsole --ConsoleWidget.font_family="Anonymous Pro" --ConsoleWidget.font_size=9
 
 Process Management
 ==================
 
 With the two-process ZMQ model, the frontend does not block input during
 execution. This means that actions can be taken by the frontend while the
 Kernel is executing, or even after it crashes. The most basic such command is
 via 'Ctrl-.', which restarts the kernel.  This can be done in the middle of a
 blocking execution. The frontend can also know, via a heartbeat mechanism, that
 the kernel has died. This means that the frontend can safely restart the
 kernel.
 
 .. _multiple_consoles:
 
 Multiple Consoles
 *****************
 
 Since the Kernel listens on the network, multiple frontends can connect to it.
 These do not have to all be qt frontends - any IPython frontend can connect and
 run code.  When you start ipython qtconsole, there will be an output line,
 like::
 
     [IPKernelApp] To connect another client to this kernel, use:
     [IPKernelApp] --existing kernel-12345.json
 
 Other frontends can connect to your kernel, and share in the execution. This is
 great for collaboration.  The ``--existing`` flag means connect to a kernel
 that already exists.  Starting other consoles
 with that flag will not try to start their own kernel, but rather connect to
 yours.  :file:`kernel-12345.json` is a small JSON file with the ip, port, and
 authentication information necessary to connect to your kernel. By default, this file
 will be in your default profile's security directory.  If it is somewhere else,
 the output line will print the full path of the connection file, rather than
 just its filename.
 
 If you need to find the connection info to send, and don't know where your connection file
 lives, there are a couple of ways to get it. If you are already running an IPython console
 connected to the kernel, you can use the ``%connect_info`` magic to display the information
 necessary to connect another frontend to the kernel.
 
 .. sourcecode:: ipython
 
     In [2]: %connect_info
     {
       "stdin_port":50255,
       "ip":"127.0.0.1",
       "hb_port":50256,
       "key":"70be6f0f-1564-4218-8cda-31be40a4d6aa",
       "shell_port":50253,
       "iopub_port":50254
     }
 
     Paste the above JSON into a file, and connect with:
         $> ipython <app> --existing <file>
     or, if you are local, you can connect with just:
         $> ipython <app> --existing kernel-12345.json
     or even just:
         $> ipython <app> --existing
     if this is the most recent IPython session you have started.
 
 Otherwise, you can find a connection file by name (and optionally profile) with
 :func:`IPython.lib.kernel.find_connection_file`:
 
 .. sourcecode:: bash
 
     $> python -c "from IPython.lib.kernel import find_connection_file;\
     print find_connection_file('kernel-12345.json')"
     /home/you/.ipython/profile_default/security/kernel-12345.json
 
 And if you are using a particular IPython profile:
 
 .. sourcecode:: bash
 
     $> python -c "from IPython.lib.kernel import find_connection_file;\
     print find_connection_file('kernel-12345.json', profile='foo')"
     /home/you/.ipython/profile_foo/security/kernel-12345.json
 
 You can even launch a standalone kernel, and connect and disconnect Qt Consoles
 from various machines.  This lets you keep the same running IPython session
 on your work machine (with matplotlib plots and everything), logging in from home,
 cafés, etc.::
 
     $> ipython kernel
     [IPKernelApp] To connect another client to this kernel, use:
     [IPKernelApp] --existing kernel-12345.json
 
 This is actually exactly the same as the subprocess launched by the qtconsole, so
 all the information about connecting to a standalone kernel is identical to that
 of connecting to the kernel attached to a running console.
 
 .. _kernel_security:
 
 Security
 --------
 
 .. warning::
 
     Since the ZMQ code currently has no encryption, listening on an
     external-facing IP is dangerous.  You are giving any computer that can see
     you on the network the ability to connect to your kernel, and view your traffic.
     Read the rest of this section before listening on external ports
     or running an IPython kernel on a shared machine.
 
 By default (for security reasons), the kernel only listens on localhost, so you
 can only connect multiple frontends to the kernel from your local machine. You
 can specify to listen on an external interface by specifying the ``ip``
 argument::
 
     $> ipython qtconsole --ip=192.168.1.123
 
 If you specify the ip as 0.0.0.0 or '*', that means all interfaces, so any
 computer that can see yours on the network can connect to the kernel.
 
 Messages are not encrypted, so users with access to the ports your kernel is using will be
 able to see any output of the kernel. They will **NOT** be able to issue shell commands as
 you due to message signatures, which are enabled by default as of IPython 0.12.
 
 .. warning::
 
     If you disable message signatures, then any user with access to the ports your
     kernel is listening on can issue arbitrary code as you. **DO NOT** disable message
     signatures unless you have a lot of trust in your environment.
 
 The one security feature IPython does provide is protection from unauthorized execution.
 IPython's messaging system will sign messages with HMAC digests using a shared-key. The key
 is never sent over the network, it is only used to generate a unique hash for each message,
 based on its content. When IPython receives a message, it will check that the digest
 matches, and discard the message. You can use any file that only you have access to to
 generate this key, but the default is just to generate a new UUID. You can generate a random
 private key with::
 
     # generate 1024b of random data, and store in a file only you can read:
     # (assumes IPYTHONDIR is defined, otherwise use your IPython directory)
     $> python -c "import os; print os.urandom(128).encode('base64')" > $IPYTHONDIR/sessionkey
     $> chmod 600 $IPYTHONDIR/sessionkey
 
 The *contents* of this file will be stored in the JSON connection file, so that file
 contains everything you need to connect to and use a kernel.
 
 To use this generated key, simply specify the ``Session.keyfile`` configurable
 in :file:`ipython_config.py` or at the command-line, as in::
 
     # instruct IPython to sign messages with that key, instead of a new UUID
     $> ipython qtconsole --Session.keyfile=$IPYTHONDIR/sessionkey
 
 .. _ssh_tunnels:
 
 SSH Tunnels
 -----------
 
 Sometimes you want to connect to machines across the internet, or just across
 a LAN that either doesn't permit open ports or you don't trust the other
 machines on the network.  To do this, you can use SSH tunnels.  SSH tunnels
 are a way to securely forward ports on your local machine to ports on another
 machine, to which you have SSH access.
 
 In simple cases, IPython's tools can forward ports over ssh by simply adding the
 ``--ssh=remote`` argument to the usual ``--existing...`` set of flags for connecting
 to a running kernel, after copying the JSON connection file (or its contents) to
 the second computer.
 
 .. warning::
 
     Using SSH tunnels does *not* increase localhost security.  In fact, when
     tunneling from one machine to another *both* machines have open
     ports on localhost available for connections to the kernel.
 
 There are two primary models for using SSH tunnels with IPython.  The first
 is to have the Kernel listen only on localhost, and connect to it from
 another machine on the same LAN.
 
 First, let's start a kernel on machine **worker**, listening only
 on loopback::
 
     user@worker $> ipython kernel
     [IPKernelApp] To connect another client to this kernel, use:
     [IPKernelApp] --existing kernel-12345.json
 
 In this case, the IP that you would connect
 to would still be 127.0.0.1, but you want to specify the additional ``--ssh`` argument
 with the hostname of the kernel (in this example, it's 'worker')::
 
     user@client $> ipython qtconsole  --ssh=worker --existing /path/to/kernel-12345.json
 
 Which will write a new connection file with the forwarded ports, so you can reuse them::
 
     [IPythonQtConsoleApp] To connect another client via this tunnel, use:
     [IPythonQtConsoleApp] --existing kernel-12345-ssh.json
 
 Note again that this opens ports on the *client* machine that point to your kernel.
 
 .. note::
 
     the ssh argument is simply passed to openssh, so it can be fully specified ``user@host:port``
     but it will also respect your aliases, etc. in :file:`.ssh/config` if you have any.
 
 The second pattern is for connecting to a machine behind a firewall across the internet
 (or otherwise wide network). This time, we have a machine **login** that you have ssh access
 to, which can see **kernel**, but **client** is on another network. The important difference
 now is that **client** can see **login**, but *not* **worker**. So we need to forward ports from
 client to worker *via* login. This means that the kernel must be started listening
 on external interfaces, so that its ports are visible to `login`::
 
     user@worker $> ipython kernel --ip=0.0.0.0
     [IPKernelApp] To connect another client to this kernel, use:
     [IPKernelApp] --existing kernel-12345.json
 
 Which we can connect to from the client with::
 
     user@client $> ipython qtconsole --ssh=login --ip=192.168.1.123 --existing /path/to/kernel-12345.json
 
 .. note::
 
     The IP here is the address of worker as seen from *login*, and need only be specified if
     the kernel used the ambiguous 0.0.0.0 (all interfaces) address. If it had used
     192.168.1.123 to start with, it would not be needed.
 
 
 Manual SSH tunnels
 ------------------
 
 It's possible that IPython's ssh helper functions won't work for you, for various
 reasons.  You can still connect to remote machines, as long as you set up the tunnels
 yourself.  The basic format of forwarding a local port to a remote one is::
 
     [client] $> ssh <server> <localport>:<remoteip>:<remoteport> -f -N
 
 This will forward local connections to **localport** on client to **remoteip:remoteport**
 *via* **server**. Note that remoteip is interpreted relative to *server*, not the client.
 So if you have direct ssh access to the machine to which you want to forward connections,
 then the server *is* the remote machine, and remoteip should be server's IP as seen from the
 server itself, i.e. 127.0.0.1.  Thus, to forward local port 12345 to remote port 54321 on
 a machine you can see, do::
 
     [client] $> ssh machine 12345:127.0.0.1:54321 -f -N
 
 But if your target is actually on a LAN at 192.168.1.123, behind another machine called **login**,
 then you would do::
 
     [client] $> ssh login 12345:192.168.1.16:54321 -f -N
 
 The ``-f -N`` on the end are flags that tell ssh to run in the background,
 and don't actually run any commands beyond creating the tunnel.
 
 .. seealso::
 
     A short discussion of ssh tunnels: http://www.revsys.com/writings/quicktips/ssh-tunnel.html
 
 
 
 Stopping Kernels and Consoles
 *****************************
 
 Since there can be many consoles per kernel, the shutdown mechanism and dialog
 are probably more complicated than you are used to. Since you don't always want
 to shutdown a kernel when you close a window, you are given the option to just
 close the console window or also close the Kernel and *all other windows*. Note
 that this only refers to all other *local* windows, as remote Consoles are not
 allowed to shutdown the kernel, and shutdowns do not close Remote consoles (to
 allow for saving, etc.).
 
 Rules:
 
     * Restarting the kernel automatically clears all *local* Consoles, and prompts remote
       Consoles about the reset.
     * Shutdown closes all *local* Consoles, and notifies remotes that
       the Kernel has been shutdown.
     * Remote Consoles may not restart or shutdown the kernel.
 
 Qt and the QtConsole
 ====================
 
 An important part of working with the QtConsole when you are writing your own
 Qt code is to remember that user code (in the kernel) is *not* in the same
 process as the frontend.  This means that there is not necessarily any Qt code
 running in the kernel, and under most normal circumstances there isn't. If,
 however, you specify ``--matplotlib qt`` at the command-line, then there *will* be a
 :class:`QCoreApplication` instance running in the kernel process along with
 user-code. To get a reference to this application, do:
 
 .. sourcecode:: python
 
     from PyQt4 import QtCore
     app = QtCore.QCoreApplication.instance()
     # app will be None if there is no such instance
 
 A common problem listed in the PyQt4 Gotchas_ is the fact that Python's garbage
 collection will destroy Qt objects (Windows, etc.) once there is no longer a
 Python reference to them, so you have to hold on to them.  For instance, in:
 
 .. sourcecode:: python
 
     def make_window():
         win = QtGui.QMainWindow()
     
     def make_and_return_window():
         win = QtGui.QMainWindow()
         return win
 
 :func:`make_window` will never draw a window, because garbage collection will
 destroy it before it is drawn, whereas :func:`make_and_return_window` lets the
 caller decide when the window object should be destroyed.  If, as a developer,
 you know that you always want your objects to last as long as the process, you
 can attach them to the QApplication instance itself:
 
 .. sourcecode:: python
     
     # do this just once:
     app = QtCore.QCoreApplication.instance()
     app.references = set()
     # then when you create Windows, add them to the set
     def make_window():
         win = QtGui.QMainWindow()
         app.references.add(win)
 
 Now the QApplication itself holds a reference to ``win``, so it will never be
 garbage collected until the application itself is destroyed.
 
 .. _Gotchas: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/gotchas.html#garbage-collection
 
 Embedding the QtConsole in a Qt application
 *******************************************
 
 In order to make the QtConsole available to an external Qt GUI application (just as
 :func:`IPython.embed` enables one to embed a terminal session of IPython in a
 command-line application), there are a few options:
 
 * First start IPython, and then start the external Qt application from IPython,
   as described above.  Effectively, this embeds your application in IPython
   rather than the other way round.
 
 * Use :class:`IPython.qt.console.rich_ipython_widget.RichIPythonWidget` in your
   Qt application. This will embed the console widget in your GUI and start the
   kernel in a separate process, so code typed into the console cannot access
   objects in your application.
 
 * Start a standard IPython kernel in the process of the external Qt
   application.  See :file:`examples/lib/ipkernel_qtapp.py` for an example.  Due
   to IPython's two-process model, the QtConsole itself will live in another
   process with its own QApplication, and thus cannot be embedded in the main
   GUI.
 
 * Start a special IPython kernel, the
   :class:`IPython.kernel.inprocess.ipkernel.InProcessKernel`, that allows a
   QtConsole in the same process. See :file:`examples/inprocess/embedded_qtconsole.py`
   for an example. While the QtConsole can now be embedded in the main GUI, one
   cannot connect to the kernel from other consoles as there are no real ZMQ
   sockets anymore.
 
 Regressions
 ===========
 
 There are some features, where the qt console lags behind the Terminal
 frontend:
 
 * !cmd input: Due to our use of pexpect, we cannot pass input to subprocesses
   launched using the '!' escape, so you should never call a command that
   requires interactive input.  For such cases, use the terminal IPython.  This
   will not be fixed, as abandoning pexpect would significantly degrade the
   console experience.
 
 .. _PyQt: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/download
 .. _pygments: http://pygments.org/