Interactive strings get mangled with "_ip.magic" #114
Description
Reported on the user list by Max Bane:
http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/ipython-user/2010-May/006936.html
See log below. This was somewhat unexpected :). What exactly is going
on here, and is there a quick and dirty way around it? My original
motivation for doing something like this in interactive mode was to
construct a string to execute on a MultiEngineClient. It's not a huge
deal, since I can always do it non-interactively, but still...
[max@radon:~/projects/density]$ ipython
Python 2.5.4 (r254:67917, Dec 23 2008, 14:57:27)
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
IPython 0.10 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
? -> Introduction and overview of IPython's features.
%quickref -> Quick reference.
help -> Python's own help system.
object? -> Details about 'object'. ?object also works, ?? prints more.
In [1]: facdef = \
...: """
...: def factorial(x):
...: r = 1
...: for y in xrange(2, x+1):
...: r *= y
...: return r
...: """
In [2]: print facdef
def factorial(x):
r = 1
for y in xrange(1, x+1):
_ip.magic("r *= y")
return r