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

[Thomas Kluyver]

On 15 May 2013 22:42, Brian Granger <ellisonbg at gmail.com> wrote:

> I too think that writefile is my favorite so for.  What about
> prompting on overwrite.  I think Min and I are in favor of that - but
> I think this new name resolves some of the confusion so I am fine
> either way.
>

writefile gets my vote too. I'd side with not prompting - the name change
and the empty-cell protection should avoid the accidents we've seen, and I
think a prompt would get annoying if you're quickly re-running a notebook.
Commands to overwrite files in both Python and shell scripting don't
prompt, so arguably programmers are used to that behaviour (or should learn
to expect it). I don't feel strongly about this, though, so long as there's
an option to skip the prompt.

Thomas
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