[IPython-user] Hooking into the autocall displayer

[Jörgen Stenarson]

Tom,

I think the problem is that on windows stdout is connected to the 
console window which cannot interpret ansi color codes. Instead you need 
to call a special function that does this for you. One way is to use 
__IP.write to access the write method on the IPShell instance which does 
this. I'm not sure what is the correct way to obtain this object.

def shortCutFunc(s):
     __IP.write(sys.displayhook.prompt1.auto_rewrite()+ 'print %r\n'%s)

gives the desired behaviour when defined at the prompt.


/Jörgen


> 
> On windows this same code fails miserably because the escape sequences
> don't get translated properly to colors:
> 
> In [10]: def shortCutFunc(s):
>    ....:      sys.stdout.write(sys.displayhook.prompt1.auto_rewrite()+ 'print %r
> \n'%s)
>    ....:  print s
>    ....:  sys.stdout.write(sys.displayhook.prompt1.auto_rewrite()+ 'print repr(%
> r)\n'%s)
>    ....:  print repr(s)
>    ....:
> 
> In [11]: shortCutFunc('s')
> ←[0;32m-------> ←[0mprint 's'
> s
> ←[0;32m-------> ←[0mprint repr('s')
> 's'
> 
> 
> 
> I suspect my sys.stdout.write is the problem but I don't know the
> correct cross platform alternative.
> 
> 
> Is this clear?
> 
> 
> On 9/17/07, Jörgen Stenarson <jorgen.stenarson@bostream.nu> wrote:
>> Tom,
>>
>> can you provide a complete self contained example of what you are trying
>> to do? With a description of desired results. It would be helpful in
>> figuring out what goes wrong.
>>
>> /Jörgen
>>
>>> In particular, in this case I don't really know what the problem is on
>>> Win32, since I know very little about the handling of color escapes on
>>> that platform.  I hope our resident win32 experts may be able to help.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>>
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