[IPython-dev] What To Do With a Problem Like 'cd /'?

[Ville M. Vainio]

On 5/23/07, Dan Milstein <danmil at comcast.net> wrote:

> This tries to avoid certain bad autocall issues by checking for the
> following chars as the start of the rest of a line, and it finds one,
> just handling the line normally:
>
> '!=()<>+*/%^&|'
>
> Note how '/' is now in there.  When I reorg'd things, I put that
> check in prefilter.checkPythonChars, which gets called *before*
> checkAutomagic.  Thus, when you type:

I think we just need to check for automagic before this. The automagic
can very well "give up" if the "function" is also in user_ns, without
need for checks like this.

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