[IPython-dev] Fwd: Heads up - major changes landed

[David Hirschfeld]

Apologies for cross-posting or if this turns up multiple times - I
can't seem to get through to ipython-user...

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From: David Hirschfeld <dave.hirschfeld at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: Heads up - major changes landed
To: ipython-user at scipy.org


Thomas Kluyver <takowl <at> gmail.com> writes:

>
>
> We've just landed PR #2447, which is a major reworking of our input transformation framework (the bit that allows IPython goodies like magic commands, cell magics, system commands, autocalling, and so on).The test suite is parsing, but with any major change, there's a risk of breaking things in corner cases, so if you see anything unexpected, please make sure we know about it. And if you're giving a vital demo, you might not want to 'git pull' just before you're on.
> Thanks,Thomas
>

I've just updated to the latest IPython and am seeing some strange
behaviour with the cythonmagic - it seems to choke on non-python
syntax but only in certain circumstances:

In [1]: %load_ext cythonmagic

In [2]: %%cython
   ...:
   ...: cimport cython
   ...: def f(x):
   ...:     return 2.0*x
  File "<ipython-input-2-16e622cf1638>", line 2
    cimport cython
                 ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax


In [3]: %%cython
   ...: cimport cython
   ...: def f(x):
   ...:     return 2.0*x
   ...:

In [4]: f(2.0)
Out[4]: 4.0


In [5]: %%cython
    ...: cimport cython
    ...:
    ...: def f(double x):
    ...:     return 2.0*x
  File "<ipython-input-11-124eaf389bed>", line 2
    def f(double x):
                 ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax


Anyone else seeing this?

A good test-case (that fails for me) could be the cythonmagic notebook:

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/raw.github.com/ipython/ipython/3607712653c66d63e0d7f13f073bde8c0f209ba8/docs/examples/notebooks/cython_extension.ipynb

Thanks,
Dave