* Recorded down some notes/caveat for init_interactive().

master
Wirawan Purwanto 13 years ago
parent 4194344891
commit 14303979f1
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      interactive_tools.py

@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
# #
# Simple and dirty tools for interactive python mode # Simple and dirty tools for interactive python mode
# #
# FIXME TODO LIST:
# - needs to detect 'python -i' presence in case of python <= 2.5.
import atexit import atexit
import inspect import inspect
@ -96,11 +98,16 @@ def init_interactive(use_readline=True, global_ns=None):
"""Perform standard initialization for my scripts. """Perform standard initialization for my scripts.
Some options can be given to tweak the environment. Some options can be given to tweak the environment.
Under ipython CAVEAT: this method still does not work universally yet.
""" We need to execute some of the statements in the global (top level)
# ERROR: this still does not work. we need to execute the statements namespace, not in this function's namespace.
# in the global (base) namespace, not in this function's namespace. So in general init_interactive *MUST* at this point be called from the
main program, not from any subroutine.
Otherwise, you must explicitly specify the global namespace as the
`global_ns` argument.
Works under ipython, `python -i' and vanilla python.
"""
(g, b) = get_global_namespace_(global_ns) (g, b) = get_global_namespace_(global_ns)
int_info = detect_interactive(g) int_info = detect_interactive(g)

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