[IPython-User] $ sign is removed in magic function

[Thomas Kluyver]

2012/1/1 Zoltán Vörös <zvoros@gmail.com>

> If I run this in an ipython shell as
>
> In [24]: %fimp foo.dat $123
> [u'foo.dat', u'123']
>
>
> i.e., the $ sign is removed. However, if I do this on the command line
>

The $ sign is part of the magic system, for dropping Python variables into
your commands, so you can do things like this:

In [5]: cmd = "math.factorial(100)"
In [6]: %timeit $cmd

When you do $3, it evaluates it as the integer literal 3.

It's replaced before the arguments are passed to your function, and there
isn't a way to override it from inside the function. Is there another
symbol you could use instead of $?

Thomas
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