[IPython-User] Populating variables in current frame automatically?

[Francesc Alted]

A Tuesday 21 September 2010 20:24:56 escriguéreu:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Francesc Alted 
<faltet@pytables.org>wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'd like to know if there is a good way to automatically import
> > items in a dictionary as variables into an IPython shell.  For
> > example, I'd like to do something like:
> > 
> > In [1]: mydict = {'p1': 1, 'p2':2}
> > 
> > In [2]: import sys
> > 
> > In [3]: frame= sys._getframe(0)
> > 
> > In [4]: frame.f_locals.update(mydict)
> > 
> > In [5]: p1
> > Out[5]: 1
> > 
> > In [6]: p2
> > Out[6]: 2
> > 
> > but seems a bit ugly to my eyes :-/
> > 
> > I don't want to use the %store magic because I may want to use
> > different (potentially pickled) dictionaries in order to populate
> > my variables.
> 
> They say it is dangerous to update locals() directly, but for the
> sake of practicality:
> 
> locals().update(mydict)

Hmm, that's better than my solution.  Thanks!

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Francesc Alted