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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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"""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']