[IPython-user] Using yaml with ipython is goofy

[Ryan James]

On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 20:10 -0600, Robert Kern wrote:
> On 2009-02-14 16:42, Robert Kern wrote:
> > On 2009-02-14 16:19, Matthew Wilson wrote:
> 
> >> And then I got a big traceback, ending with:
> >>
> >>       ScannerError: mapping values are not allowed here
> >>         in "<string>", line 3, column 5:
> >>           name: Yahoo
> >>           ^
> >>
> >> So, what is going on here?  What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > IPython's __main__ is kind of weird and suboptimal in a few respects. If you
> > import __main__, you can see that it doesn't have a Y in it. yaml is probably
> > trying to import __main__.Y and failing. For example, instead of __main__ try
> > another module that doesn't have a Y; you'll get the same error message. For the
> > suboptimal error message, you can blame yaml.  :-)
> 
> Hmm, nevermind. From the regular Python prompt, the error message is different:
> 
>  >>> import yaml
>  >>> yaml.load('''
> ... !!python/object:numpy.Y
> ... name: Yahoo
> ... ''')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 4, in <module>
>    File "/Users/rkern/bzr/runsnakerun/__init__.py", line 66, in load
> 
>    File "build/bdist.macosx-10.4-i386/egg/yaml/constructor.py", line 38, in get_data
>    File "build/bdist.macosx-10.4-i386/egg/yaml/constructor.py", line 45, in 
> construct_document
>    File "build/bdist.macosx-10.4-i386/egg/yaml/constructor.py", line 96, in 
> construct_object
>    File "build/bdist.macosx-10.4-i386/egg/yaml/constructor.py", line 572, in 
> construct_python_object
>    File "build/bdist.macosx-10.4-i386/egg/yaml/constructor.py", line 544, in 
> make_python_instance
>    File "build/bdist.macosx-10.4-i386/egg/yaml/constructor.py", line 517, in 
> find_python_name
> yaml.constructor.ConstructorError: while constructing a Python object
> cannot find 'Y' in the module 'numpy'
>    in "<string>", line 2, column 1:
>      !!python/object:numpy.Y
>      ^
>  >>>
> 
> So I don't know what the problem is.
> 

but if you add Y to the __main__ FakeModule, it works:

In [1]: class Y(object):
   ...:     pass
   ...: 
In [2]: import yaml
In [3]: import __main__
In [4]: __main__.Y = Y
In [5]: y = yaml.load("!!python/object:__main__.Y\nname: Yahoo")
In [6]: y
Out[6]: <__main__.Y object at 0x28c5a50>
In [7]: y.name
Out[7]: 'Yahoo'

is it possible to add a hook or something so that when things are
interactively added to user_ns they also get added to __main__, so that
everything that %who returns is also in __main__, just like in the
standard interpreter?