[IPython-dev] Magics, aliases, namespaces

[Ville Vainio]

Fernando Perez wrote:

>> Shouldn't this be rather simple, or am I misunderstanding something? 
>> Just implement only one function in Magic, e.g. magic_execute. Then 
>> the "magic handler" would return the command to be executed as
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> The problem is that in many places, the Magic functions access shell 
> attributes directly (since it's a mixin).  A boundary needs to be 
> drawn between the two.  Same for logger.  This is easy, it just needs 
> to be done carefully to make sure all codepaths are taken into account.

Ah. Perhaps the magic_execute could just pass the reference to shell 
environment then...

> There's your first project.  Send me a patch :)

Ok :).

> I saw that, thanks.  But I (Fernando Perez) wrote ipython, not 
> Francois Pinard (though he has sent me useful ideas and comments in 
> the past). :)

Ouch. Two south-european names with same initials - you get the idea ;-)