[IPython-user] Using argparse to implement %magics

[Robert Kern]

David Warde-Farley wrote:
> On 27-Oct-08, at 8:08 PM, Robert Kern wrote:
> 
>> argparse is my command-line option parser of choice these days, and  
>> I always thought it would be a nice way to implement some of the  
>> IPython %magics that have such options. I recently had the occasion  
>> to write some of my own %magics, so I tried it out. Here are the  
>> results:
> 
> These are really quite handy! %fread and %fwrite especially. They're  
> so handy that they'd be perfect for inclusion in ipython, save for  
> introducing another dependency, of which I know many people are wary.

One of the nice things about argparse is that it is a single-file Python module 
intended to be dropped into places like IPython.external.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco