[IPython-dev] In-place %editing of methods

[Robert Kern]

On 2010-04-12 13:13 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Robert Kern<robert.kern at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> It just occurred to me that someone could write a very useful magic for editing
>> methods and functions in-place. The following is a loose sketch to record my
>> thoughts in public.
>
> Thanks, great idea.  Filed for tracking:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ipython/+bug/561693

I have an implementation in my kernmagic package.

http://www.enthought.com/~rkern/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/kernmagic/

No persistence or unified diffs, but I think that's fine.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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