[IPython-dev] Helping battle testing the newapp branch

[Min RK]

On Jun 21, 2011, at 1:05, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 9:22 PM, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> newapp has been merged into master.
>> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> BTW, I think we should add back the (ugly, I know) special-case of
> honoring -pylab with a single dash.  We've talked about this before,
> while it's ugly, this is written in *many* places, including books and
> published papers, as the way to start ipython with plotting/numerical
> support.  I think it's worth the friendliness to users who arrive via
> that path to have that option just work, even if it means an ugly two
> lines of code special-casing '-pylab' in sys.argv...

It doesn't have to be ugly - we could easily allow flags to be specified with one or two leading '-'.  Currently, one '-' cannot be valid, so it is safe to allow it.

-MinRK

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> f