[IPython-dev] what goes wrong with %%file

Fernando Perez fperez.net at gmail.com
Sun May 12 17:33:16 EDT 2013


Mmh,  %%overwrite... I didn't like it too much when I first saw it,
but it's growing on me, and it has the advantage of being unambiguous
about the destructive nature of the action.

f

On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Greg Wilson <gvwilson at third-bit.com> wrote:
> On 2013-05-12 5:22 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:
>> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Matt Davis <jiffyclub at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I agree renaming %%file to %%savefile would be a good idea so it's clear
>>> it's a one-way process.
>> I'm leaning towards 'filesave', as it follows the 'File->Save' pattern
>> of most menus and will tab-complete from the word 'file', which is the
>> name we were already using.
>>
>> Thoughts?
> Just did a very unscientific poll: %%overwrite got two votes, %%filesave
> got zero, and "what?" beat them both :-)
> - G
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