[IPython-user] Autocall behaviour

[Fernando Perez]

Frédéric Mantegazza wrote:
> Le Lundi 13 Février 2006 19:57, Fernando Perez a écrit :
> 
> 
>>and SVN trunk similarly behaves correctly for me.  Could you repeat the
>>above test for us please? Include a paste of the startup banner so we can
>>see exactly your version info, and also please do this:
> 
> 
> I'm using the debian testing package ($Revision: 1072 $), and I have the 
> same results on your example.
> 
> But the behaviour of this feature has changed. I'm using the embedded class. 
> Our IPython-based console is used to drive some remote objects, through 
> Pyro framework; the user directly uses remote objects of the Pyro server.
> 
> But in fact, from IPython side, these are only proxies. So, they do not have 
> the remote object methods (like __call__), but dynamically search if the 
> asked method is available on the remote object.
> 
> So, if IPython changed the way to see if a __call__ method is available, it 
> could be the problem. By the past, you might be using a try/except 
> statement arround the call. But if now you check *before* calling the 
> method if it exists, it does not work anymore.
> 
> Could it be the problem ?

Could be.  What does

callable(foo)

return for one of your local proxies?  That's ultimately what is used to decide:

             if (self.rc.autocall
                  and
                    (
                    #only consider exclusion re if not "," or ";" autoquoting
                    (pre == self.ESC_QUOTE or pre == self.ESC_QUOTE2
                      or pre == self.ESC_PAREN) or
                    (not self.re_exclude_auto.match(theRest)))
                  and
                    self.re_fun_name.match(iFun) and
                    callable(oinfo['obj'])) :
                 #print 'going auto'  # dbg
                 return self.handle_auto(line,continue_prompt,
                                         pre,iFun,theRest,oinfo['obj'])

Cheers,

f