On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Anthony Scopatz
Probably. I don't know how far along they are but I think that the idea is for objects to be able to autodisplay themselves in a variety of contexts (notebook, command line, static html, etc), with the option of having distinct displays for each context. This would allow, for instance, Plots to show themselves. This is worth following more, though...
This is already very well established, and we haven't changed that protocol since 0.12, so you guys can consider that to be pretty solid. Here are the two most relevant examples (these ship in our docs/examples/notebooks directory): 1. The notebook that explains the display protocol in detail: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/3784613/ I posted it from a gist b/c the version we ship has been stripped of output (to keep it small). But that's just our default example after running it. 2. An illustration of how our sympy extension takes advantage of it to provide natural latex printing of all sympy outputs: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/raw.github.com/ipython/ipython/master/docs/... HTH, f