[IPython-dev] IPython on Python 3 - script names

[Brian Granger]

> Right, I've gone for ipython3/ipython3-qtconsole/iptest3, and so on.
>
> I've also separated the default ipython directory (.ipython) to .ipython3,
> and changed the environment variable it checks for this directory to be
> IPYTHON3_DIR.

Great, I think this definitely makes sense.

> One thing I'm unsure about: on Windows, it says that it will use _ipython
> instead of .ipython, but I can't see where this is set up. Does Windows
> somehow change .ipython into _ipython, or is it in a completely different
> part of the code?

It should just be .ipython on all platforms now.  If not, let us know
and we can make sure it is.

Cheers,

Brian

> Thanks,
> Thomas
>
> On 15 January 2011 05:05, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I would cast my vote for ipython3/ipython3-qtconsole.  I think two hyphens
>> is too many for a script name if at all avoidable, and I don't think there's
>> much risk of people confusing that for the ipython version, since 0.3 is
>> long ago, and 3.0 won't be soon.
>> Another precedent for this pattern is nosetests3
>>
>> -MinRK
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 17:18, Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> So, that's one for and one against. ;-)
>>>
>>> Dan, I take your point about 3k being an insider thing. I don't really
>>> like ipython-py3, though. I don't know why, it just looks...ugly, somehow.
>>>
>>> In fact, I'm now leaning back towards:
>>> ipython3
>>> ipython3-qtconsole
>>>
>>> As you say, it's unlikely anyone would actually get confused, and we
>>> wouldn't be alone in using that pattern (pydoc3, idle3*, virtualenv5 (!)).
>>> It has the advantage that tab completion narrows down quicker: ipython-<tab>
>>> gets you only py2 IPython names. Are people happy with that?
>>>
>>> *pydoc3 and idle3 might be down to Ubuntu packaging, I don't know. It's a
>>> precedent, in any case.
>>>
>>> Apologies if it seems like I'm agonising over something trivial. I don't
>>> want to keep changing the names, so I want to make sure they're the right
>>> names to begin with.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Thomas
>>>
>>> On 9 January 2011 13:43, Dan Halbert <halbert at halwitz.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 1/9/2011 7:39 AM, Thomas Kluyver wrote:
>>>> > At present, I'm thinking of something like:
>>>> > ipython-3k
>>>> > ipython-3k-qtconsole
>>>> >
>>>> > This keeps it short, but hopefully makes it clear that it's not
>>>> > IPython version 3 (a problem with, say, 'ipython3'). On the other
>>>> > hand, it does lead to some conflicts for tab completion: with both
>>>> > versions installed, ipython-<tab> will turn up two of every frontend
>>>> > available (-qtconsole, -3k-qtconsole), plus -3k.
>>>> How about "ipython-py3"?  "3k" is a bit of insider historical
>>>> terminology (PEP 3000).
>>>> And I and my users would not find "ipython3" so confusing, since ipython
>>>> is nowhere near v3. it's also the easiest to type, by a long shot.
>>>>
>>>> Dan
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Brian E. Granger, Ph.D.
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Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
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