[IPython-dev] Next-gen result printing using generics

[Ville M. Vainio]

Simplegeneric rocks.

Coming soon to SVN, once I clean it up (remove deco syntax etc.):

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from IPython.generics import result_display

@result_display.when_type(LSString)
def print_lsstring(arg):
    print "LSString (.p, .n, .l, .s available). Value:"
    print arg


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In [4]: from IPython.genutils import *

In [5]: LSString("hello\nworld")
Out[5]: LSString (.p, .n, .l, .s available). Value:
hello
world

In [6]:


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