[IPython-dev] Revival of %store (pspersistence)?

Fernando Perez fperez.net at gmail.com
Tue Apr 12 03:06:01 EDT 2011


Hi Mark,

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Mark Voorhies <mark.voorhies at ucsf.edu> wrote:
> R saves session data in $PWD/.Rdata and restores it when R is re-invoked from $PWD.
> The usual workflow is to have project-specific data directories and invoke R next to
> the data that the session will operate on.  R frontends (e.g., ESS for Emacs) support this
> workflow by prompting for a working directory when invoked (and R prompts for saving
> session data on exit).  Would this be a useful way to make persistent data loading in
> IPython "deliberate but automatic"?

something along these lines would probably be great to have eventually
(even if we don't have the bandwidth to implement it quite now).
Would you care to open an issue with some of these thoughts and any
other info you can think on the design?

That would also be a place to have a discussion of how to tie a
session storage mechanism (even if it can't pickle/save everything)
with our new, more powerful history handling that uses sqlite.

Cheers,

f



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