c = get_config() app = c.IPythonApp # This can be used at any point in a config file to load a sub config # and merge it into the current one. import os load_subconfig(os.path.join('..','profile_default', 'ipython_config.py')) lines = """ from IPython.parallel import * """ # You have to make sure that attributes that are containers already # exist before using them. Simple assigning a new list will override # all previous values. if hasattr(app, 'exec_lines'): app.exec_lines.append(lines) else: app.exec_lines = [lines] # Load the parallelmagic extension to enable %result, %px, %autopx magics. if hasattr(app, 'extensions'): app.extensions.append('parallelmagic') else: app.extensions = ['parallelmagic']