[IPython-dev] automatic quoting in interactive shell

[Fernando Perez]

And the point is that, even for users who do want autocall to be on, in
most cases they *don't* want it to always auto-quote, since there are many
valid use cases where you want to call functions on non-string arguments.

So as Thomas says, this sounds like a fairly narrowly-targeted extension
that you should write as custom code for a profile you use in scenarios
where such functionality makes sense for you. But it's not a generic
feature for all of IPython.

Cheers

f


On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 22 July 2014 12:59, Brian Wylie <briford.wylie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  the thing that I can't find is how to turn on 'automatic quoting' by
>> default (see below)... it works if I put a comma at the beginning of the
>> line but obviously you don't want to require users to do/know that..
>>
>
> I don't think that's a feature we have, and I don't think we especially
> want to extend the functionality of autocall - it was disabled by default
> because it's too liable to confuse people new to Python. If you want to do
> it yourself as an extension, I think this is the best place to start
> looking at the code:
>
>
> https://github.com/ipython/ipython/blob/master/IPython/core/prefilter.py#L604
>
> Thomas
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