[IPython-user] printing lots of stuff to the screen

[Stefan van der Walt]

On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 12:48:34PM +0200, Walter Dörwald wrote:
> * Running the icap command a second time doesn't show any output to the 
> terminal while running.

On my system it does, although it is somewhat messed up (see below).

> > If I do
> > 
> > from ipipe import icap
> > icap('for i in range(10): print i')
> > 
> > the result differs from when it is preceded by
> > 
> > from ipipe import *
> > ils
> 
> In what way does it differ?

In [1]: from ipipe import icap

In [2]: icap('for i in range(10): print i')
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

In [1]: from ipipe import *

In [2]: ils
Out[2]: 
In [3]: icap('for i in range(10): print i')
0
 1
  2
   3
    4
     5
      6
       7
        8
         9
          Out[3]: 

> > Does ibrowser change the state of the terminal in any way?
> 
> Well, it uses curses, but the state of the terminal should be reverted 
> to the previous state, as it uses curses.wrapper()

Maybe there is a bug in curses somewhere?  It shouldn't make a
difference whether ibrowser has been run or not, should it?

Cheers
Stéfan