[IPython-user] [Python-Dev] a quit that actually quits

[Fernando Perez]

Walter Dörwald wrote:

> This can be done with the following filter that transforms a dictionary 
> (well anything that has a iteritems()) into a browseable filter:
> 
> class tabulatedict(Filter):
>     def operate(self, iterator):
>        class dictentry(Object):
>           __shattrs__ = ("key", "val")
> 
>           def __init__(self, key, val):
>              self.key = key
>              self.val = val
> 
>        for item in iterator.iteritems():
>           yield dictentry(*item)
> 
> With this you can do:
> 
>  >>> os.environ / tabulatedict() / contains(key="HOME") / sort(key=False)
> key        |val                |
> HOME       |/var/home/walter   |
> JAVA_HOME  |/opt/j2sdk1.4.1_02 |
> ORACLE_HOME|/oracle/Client     |
> TOMCAT_HOME|/opt/jakarta-tomcat|

Neat!  This is a nice hack, I've saved it and will play with it later.  Ville, 
who's one of our resident ipython-as-shell diehards, might even 'ipythonize' it :)

Cheers,

f