[IPython-user] Idioms for using custom profiles

Mon Sep 15 14:21:06 CDT 2008

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk@gmail.com> wrote:

> (ipy_yt.py installed somewhere in PYTHONPATH)
> --
> import IPython.ipapi
> import yt.ipython_profile
> yt.ipython_profile.setup_commands(IPython.ipapi.getapi())
> --

That's something you *can* do, but nor really the "standard" way of
doing an extension. Notably, you don't need setup_commands, since you
can just get the api object in ipy_yt.py by doing

ip = IPython.ipapi.get

(this will be None if ipython is not running)

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