[IPython-dev] cell magics

Thomas Kluyver takowl at gmail.com
Sat Feb 16 20:35:01 EST 2013


On 17 February 2013 01:26, Jason Grout <jason-sage at creativetrax.com> wrote:

> If you were going to use the name and the value, it would make sense to do:
>
> %R(input=['myvar'])
>

Yep, that's functionally equivalent to what we do at present.


>  or even
>
> %R(input='myvar')
>

The list was to allow for multiple variables. You could have a special
cased isinstance(input, str), but it's a bit unpythonic.

Thomas
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