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Start webbrowser in a thread. Prevents lockup with Chrome....
Start webbrowser in a thread. Prevents lockup with Chrome. If a user has Chrome set as their default browser (system-wide or via the `BROWSER` environment variable), opening the notebook hangs because the chrome call doesn't return immediately. This solves the issue by opening the browser in a thread. Note that there remains an issue where killing the notebook will kill Chrome if the Chrome session was started by us. I haven't found a way to work around that despite attempts by making the webbrowser.open() call in a subprocess.

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"""Utility function for installing MathJax javascript library into
the notebook's 'static' directory, for offline use.
Authors:
* Min RK
"""
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# 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
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
import os
import shutil
import urllib2
import tempfile
import tarfile
from IPython.frontend.html import notebook as nbmod
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Imports
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
def install_mathjax(tag='v1.1', replace=False):
"""Download and install MathJax for offline use.
This will install mathjax to the 'static' dir in the IPython notebook
package, so it will fail if the caller does not have write access
to that location.
MathJax is a ~15MB download, and ~150MB installed.
Parameters
----------
replace : bool [False]
Whether to remove and replace an existing install.
tag : str ['v1.1']
Which tag to download. Default is 'v1.1', the current stable release,
but alternatives include 'v1.1a' and 'master'.
"""
mathjax_url = "https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/tarball/%s"%tag
nbdir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(nbmod.__file__))
static = os.path.join(nbdir, 'static')
dest = os.path.join(static, 'mathjax')
# check for existence and permissions
if not os.access(static, os.W_OK):
raise IOError("Need have write access to %s"%static)
if os.path.exists(dest):
if replace:
if not os.access(dest, os.W_OK):
raise IOError("Need have write access to %s"%dest)
print "removing previous MathJax install"
shutil.rmtree(dest)
else:
print "offline MathJax apparently already installed"
return
# download mathjax
print "Downloading mathjax source..."
response = urllib2.urlopen(mathjax_url)
print "done"
# use 'r|gz' stream mode, because socket file-like objects can't seek:
tar = tarfile.open(fileobj=response.fp, mode='r|gz')
topdir = tar.firstmember.path
print "Extracting to %s"%dest
tar.extractall(static)
# it will be mathjax-MathJax-<sha>, rename to just mathjax
os.rename(os.path.join(static, topdir), dest)
__all__ = ['install_mathjax']