[IPython-user] Prompt expressions

[Walter Dörwald]

Ville Vainio wrote:

> On 6/15/06, Ville Vainio <vivainio at gmail.com> wrote:
 > [..]
>> I will fix this, but I think I'll do it by exposing the prompt
>> calculation as a hook to expose this functionality in a predictable
>> and simple manner (and thus squat 2 flies at the same time).
> 
> Done in SVN (rev 1365), here's an example:
> 
> In [1]: pycat myprompt.py
> import os
> from IPython import ipapi
> def prompt_hook(self, cont):
>     if cont: return 'cont..'
>     return os.getcwd() + " >"
> 
> ipapi.get().set_hook('generate_prompt',prompt_hook)

Wow, that was fast!

So how can I generate colored prompts via the hook? What about the 
output prompt?

Servus,
    Walter