Add transformers to understand code pasted with >>> or IPython prompts. Now the following all work out of the box: In [8]: In [6]: for i in range(5): ...: ...: print i, ...: ...: ...: 0 1 2 3 4 In [10]: >>> width = 20 In [11]: >>> height = 5*9 In [12]: >>> width * height Out[12]: 900 And the history is still clean: In [13]: %hist -n [snipped] for i in range(5): print i, get_ipython().magic("hist -n") width = 20 height = 5*9 width * height This will be extremely useful when copy/pasting from interactive tutorials, doctests and examples. Also fixes %doctest_mode: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ipython/+bug/505404