[IPython-dev] Cell Magic names

Brian Granger ellisonbg at gmail.com
Sat Jun 2 00:07:32 EDT 2012


On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:58 PM, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was playing with my shebang magic, and I decided to test something evil:
>
>     @cell_magic('#!')
>     def shebang(self, line, cell):
>         """Run a cell via a shell command

Oh, what fun, I love it!  Actually, this is not that crazy considering
that we already have the `!foo` syntax.  I guess the important
question is this: are the any constraints on the names of cell magics
at all?  Will this mess up things somehow?

>         The `%%shebang` line is like the #! line, specifying a program
> (bash, perl, ruby, etc.)
>         """
>         p = Popen(line, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE, stdin=PIPE)
>         out,err = p.communicate(cell)
>         print(out, end='')
>         print(err, file=sys.stderr, end='')
>
>
> Which actually lets me do:
>
> %%#! bash
> for i in 1 2 3; do
>   echo $i
> done
>
> I presume we don't want that to actually work, right?  Kinda fun, though.

I think there are two questions:

* Will this actually break something?
* Is another name for this magic clearer?

Cheers,

Brian

> -MinRK
>
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Brian E. Granger
Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
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