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

[Fernando Perez]

Make a gist for it, pop a link to it in the extensions index!

https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/Extensions-Index

Cheers,

f

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Stéfan van der Walt <stefan at sun.ac.za> wrote:
> On May 15, 2013 11:26 PM, "Fernando Perez" <fperez.net at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm also -1 on cat for this, we don't want to have to explain shell
>> redirection to understand an ipython magic.
>
> Point taken, but the magics already behave in a shell-like way, so I don't
> think it's much of a leap.
>
> Perhaps a generic redirect magic would more clearly identify what is
> happening. This would also be a nice way of dumping Python output to file or
> stdout.
>
> E.g., it might be easier to have
>
> %%pipe /tmp/log
> print '''
> Whatever you want in the file
> '''
>
> Stéfan
>
>
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