<div dir="ltr">I agree with Thomas that %%overwrite won't be a natural choice when the file doesn't already exist. I think %%filesave or %%writefile would be good choices.<div><br></div><div style>- Matt</div></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Thomas Kluyver <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:takowl@gmail.com" target="_blank">takowl@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Not convinced by %%overwrite:<br></div>- It doesn't make much sense when the file doesn't already exist<br></div>- It should be usable the other way round as well - you know what you want to do (save some text to a file), find the quickest way to do that.<br>
<br></div>My vote would be %%writefile.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Thomas<br></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 May 2013 22:56, Greg Wilson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gvwilson@third-bit.com" target="_blank">gvwilson@third-bit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On 2013-05-12 5:33 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:<br>
> Mmh, %%overwrite... I didn't like it too much when I first saw it,<br>
> but it's growing on me, and it has the advantage of being unambiguous<br>
> about the destructive nature of the action.<br>
><br>
</div>Could we do a simple usability test in the spirit of<br>
<a href="http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2000-July/006427.html" target="_blank">http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2000-July/006427.html</a> and<br>
<a href="http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2000-July/006098.html" target="_blank">http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2000-July/006098.html</a> to<br>
find out what users would expect each alternative to do? I've included a<br>
very rough first cut below (which looks better with a monospaced font :-)<br>
Thanks,<br>
Greg<br>
<br>
--------------------<br>
<br>
You have a directory called 'data' that contains two files:<br>
<br>
* 'fish.csv' contains 160 lines of observations in comma-separated<br>
values format.<br>
* 'site.txt' contains 20 lines of text describing the site where you<br>
collected data (in plain English).<br>
* 'weather.txt' contains half a dozen lines of text about the weather<br>
during your site visit.<br>
<br>
You run the IPython Notebook in that directory and do the operations<br>
described below. What does the Notebook display when each cell<br>
command is run (in the order shown, with all of the cell content typed<br>
in before the cell is run), and what changes does it make inside the<br>
'data' directory and/or the files it contains when each cell is run?<br>
<br>
1. +----------------------------------------+<br>
|%%load fish.csv |<br>
+----------------------------------------+<br>
<br>
2. +----------------------------------------+<br>
|%%display fish.csv |<br>
+----------------------------------------+<br>
<br>
3. +----------------------------------------+<br>
|%%file site.txt |<br>
+----------------------------------------+<br>
<br>
4. +----------------------------------------+<br>
|%%file weather.txt |<br>
|Generally sunny, but on the last day |<br>
|we had torrential rain followed by a |<br>
|meteorite shower. |<br>
+----------------------------------------+<br>
<br>
5. +----------------------------------------+<br>
|%%overwrite site.txt |<br>
+----------------------------------------+<br>
<br>
6. +----------------------------------------+<br>
|%%overwrite site.txt |<br>
|Typical riverbank site, some signs of |<br>
|recent erosion due to road-building, |<br>
|plus traces of metallic iridium left |<br>
|behind by the mothership. |<br>
+----------------------------------------+<br>
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