[IPython-dev] what goes wrong with %%file

Greg Wilson gvwilson at third-bit.com
Sun May 12 17:27:19 EDT 2013


On 2013-05-12 5:22 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:
> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Matt Davis <jiffyclub at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I agree renaming %%file to %%savefile would be a good idea so it's clear
>> it's a one-way process.
> I'm leaning towards 'filesave', as it follows the 'File->Save' pattern
> of most menus and will tab-complete from the word 'file', which is the
> name we were already using.
>
> Thoughts?
Just did a very unscientific poll: %%overwrite got two votes, %%filesave 
got zero, and "what?" beat them both :-)
- G



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