[IPython-user] exiting ipshell()

[Fernando Perez]

On 10/3/06, Kumar Golap <tizan.moris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I was wondering if its possible to exit the ipythonshell without
> exiting python. (or may be just turn off interactivity totally).
>
> The reason is to allow users of a function to fork the process (using
> os.fork())....and in the child process i want just to execute some cpu
> intensive stuff without any interactivty....
>
> Right now when i fork and return back to the prompt in the parent
> process...some of the character that i type on the shell seems to be
> grabbed by the child process  (this does not seem to happen in pure
> python...hence my guess its related to the ipython shell). And i do
> want to stay in the ipython shell in the parent process.
>
>
> Thanks for any help/suggestions

Do the set_dummy calls described here:

http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/manual/node9.html

do what you need?  I'm not sure if the stdin capture issues you're
seeing will be solved by this, but calling

ipshell.set_dummy_mode(True)

will make all subsequent calls to

ipshell()

just return silently.

Cheers,

f