c = get_config() app = c.InteractiveShellApp # This can be used at any point in a config file to load a sub config # and merge it into the current one. load_subconfig('ipython_config.py', profile='default') 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']