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Backport PR #2738: Unicode content crashes the pager (console)...
Backport PR #2738: Unicode content crashes the pager (console) We've run into an interesting bug in the astropy project. https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues/600 When displaying a docstring that contains Unicode and is also long enough that it gets sent to the pager it fails since the docstring can't be sent to the pager as ascii. This crashes in the middle of sending content to the pager, so the shell ends up in an inconsistent state and stops echoing the keyboard etc. The fix (attached) is merely to encode the content sent to the pager in the same encoding as the terminal (`sys.stdout.encoding`). Strictly speaking, this isn't always the right thing to do, since the pager may be configured to expect a different encoding than the terminal, but that is sort of an irrational way to configure a machine... ;) For example, `less`, in the absence of any special environment variables to tell it otherwise, uses the standard `LC*` environment variables to determine what to do, which should be the same mechanism the terminal also uses by default. If anyone can suggest a better fix, I'm all for it. Perhaps it should be configurable, defaulting to `sys.stdout.encoding`?

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""" Legacy stuff
Various stuff that are there for historical / familiarity reasons.
This is automatically imported by default profile, though not other profiles
(e.g. 'sh' profile).
Stuff that is considered obsolete / redundant is gradually moved here.
"""
from IPython.core import ipapi
ip = ipapi.get()
import os,sys
from IPython.utils.genutils import *
# use rehashx
def magic_rehash(self, parameter_s = ''):
"""Update the alias table with all entries in $PATH.
This version does no checks on execute permissions or whether the
contents of $PATH are truly files (instead of directories or something
else). For such a safer (but slower) version, use %rehashx."""
# This function (and rehashx) manipulate the alias_table directly
# rather than calling magic_alias, for speed reasons. A rehash on a
# typical Linux box involves several thousand entries, so efficiency
# here is a top concern.
path = filter(os.path.isdir,os.environ.get('PATH','').split(os.pathsep))
alias_table = self.shell.alias_table
for pdir in path:
for ff in os.listdir(pdir):
# each entry in the alias table must be (N,name), where
# N is the number of positional arguments of the alias.
alias_table[ff] = (0,ff)
# Make sure the alias table doesn't contain keywords or builtins
self.shell.alias_table_validate()
# Call again init_auto_alias() so we get 'rm -i' and other modified
# aliases since %rehash will probably clobber them
self.shell.init_auto_alias()
ip.define_magic("rehash", magic_rehash)
# Exit
def magic_Quit(self, parameter_s=''):
"""Exit IPython without confirmation (like %Exit)."""
self.shell.ask_exit()
ip.define_magic("Quit", magic_Quit)
# make it autocallable fn if you really need it
def magic_p(self, parameter_s=''):
"""Just a short alias for Python's 'print'."""
exec 'print ' + parameter_s in self.shell.user_ns
ip.define_magic("p", magic_p)