[IPython-user] alias / macro question

[Ville M. Vainio]

On 12/1/06, Ville M. Vainio <vivainio at gmail.com> wrote:

> > At first I thought %alias might work, but alas, the manual tells me
> > it is only for system shell commands.
>
> You could try something like:

... snip...

Or a slightly more heavyweight solution: define your own magic command:

----- file impall.py --------

import IPython.ipapi
ip = IPython.ipapi.get()

def doimp(self, arg):
    self.api.ex("import %s; reload(%s); from %s import *" % (
    arg,arg,arg)
    )

ip.expose_magic('imp', doimp)

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And then add "import impall" to your .ipython/ipy_user_conf.py. After
that, you can do "%imp foo" for the effect you want.

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