[IPython-dev] Grab current namespace for magic commands

[Brian Granger]

Thomas,

I think there is another issue, and that is the status of magic
command in multiline input blocks.  Fernando, what is the status of
that type of thing?  I think it works fine IIRC.

> At sagedays29, I've been pointed at an issue
> (http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/10933) where people want to use
> the %time magic command inside a function. However, magic_time evaluates its
> argument in the main user_ns namespace, not the namespace of the function.

I think this does make sense if we are going to allow magics to work
inside functions.  Probably have locals be the function's scope and
globals be user_ns?

> I believe it's possible to get the relevant namespace by using
> inspect.stack(). If we do this in interactiveshell.magic(), we can get a
> reference to the frame from which magic() was called, and then evaluate the
> code with the locals and globals of that frame. Does this sound like
> something worth doing, or an awkward kludge? Is there a nicer way to do this
> that I've overlooked?

Sounds good to me as long as multiline magics are working as expected.

Cheers,

Brian

> Thanks,
> Thomas
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