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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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""" Defines miscellaneous Qt-related helper classes and functions.
"""
# Standard library imports.
import inspect
# System library imports.
from IPython.external.qt import QtCore, QtGui
# IPython imports.
from IPython.utils.traitlets import HasTraits, TraitType
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Metaclasses
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
MetaHasTraits = type(HasTraits)
MetaQObject = type(QtCore.QObject)
class MetaQObjectHasTraits(MetaQObject, MetaHasTraits):
""" A metaclass that inherits from the metaclasses of HasTraits and QObject.
Using this metaclass allows a class to inherit from both HasTraits and
QObject. Using SuperQObject instead of QObject is highly recommended. See
QtKernelManager for an example.
"""
def __new__(mcls, name, bases, classdict):
# FIXME: this duplicates the code from MetaHasTraits.
# I don't think a super() call will help me here.
for k,v in classdict.iteritems():
if isinstance(v, TraitType):
v.name = k
elif inspect.isclass(v):
if issubclass(v, TraitType):
vinst = v()
vinst.name = k
classdict[k] = vinst
cls = MetaQObject.__new__(mcls, name, bases, classdict)
return cls
def __init__(mcls, name, bases, classdict):
# Note: super() did not work, so we explicitly call these.
MetaQObject.__init__(mcls, name, bases, classdict)
MetaHasTraits.__init__(mcls, name, bases, classdict)
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Classes
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
class SuperQObject(QtCore.QObject):
""" Permits the use of super() in class hierarchies that contain QObject.
Unlike QObject, SuperQObject does not accept a QObject parent. If it did,
super could not be emulated properly (all other classes in the heierarchy
would have to accept the parent argument--they don't, of course, because
they don't inherit QObject.)
This class is primarily useful for attaching signals to existing non-Qt
classes. See QtKernelManager for an example.
"""
def __new__(cls, *args, **kw):
# We initialize QObject as early as possible. Without this, Qt complains
# if SuperQObject is not the first class in the super class list.
inst = QtCore.QObject.__new__(cls)
QtCore.QObject.__init__(inst)
return inst
def __init__(self, *args, **kw):
# Emulate super by calling the next method in the MRO, if there is one.
mro = self.__class__.mro()
for qt_class in QtCore.QObject.mro():
mro.remove(qt_class)
next_index = mro.index(SuperQObject) + 1
if next_index < len(mro):
mro[next_index].__init__(self, *args, **kw)
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Functions
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
def get_font(family, fallback=None):
"""Return a font of the requested family, using fallback as alternative.
If a fallback is provided, it is used in case the requested family isn't
found. If no fallback is given, no alternative is chosen and Qt's internal
algorithms may automatically choose a fallback font.
Parameters
----------
family : str
A font name.
fallback : str
A font name.
Returns
-------
font : QFont object
"""
font = QtGui.QFont(family)
# Check whether we got what we wanted using QFontInfo, since exactMatch()
# is overly strict and returns false in too many cases.
font_info = QtGui.QFontInfo(font)
if fallback is not None and font_info.family() != family:
font = QtGui.QFont(fallback)
return font