[IPython-dev] Curses Frontend

[Brian Granger]

Walter,

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Walter Dörwald <walter at livinglogic.de> wrote:
> On 12.03.10 23:09, Brian Granger wrote:
>
>> Walter,
>>
>>>> Is there a problem with generics?
>>>
>>> No, they work without a problem.
>>
>> Ok, I misunderstood.
>>
>>>> If so it might be related to this:
>>>>
>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ipython/+bug/527968
>>>
>>> I'm not using generics.complete_object.
>>>
>>>> It this is a different issue, could you explain further?
>>>
>>> You wrote: "Minimally, ipipe needs to be updated to the new APIs", but
>>> generics.result_display() is the only IPython API that ipipe uses, so I
>>> thould I would have to change something.
>>
>> OK, but that shouldn't be too difficult right?  If you do want to
>> continue to use this,
>> we can look to see what the new API looks like for this.
>
> So does this mean that generics.result_display() *will* go away in 0.11?
> If yes, what *is* the new API that I can hook into?

I think it is still there, and I doubt it would be removed for 0.11.
But that part of the code base has not been refactored, so in the long
run it may go away.

> What I need is a hook where I can register a callback which gets called
> when objects of a certain type have to be output to the screen the
> return value of the hook is the object that gets assigned to the _ variable.

For now I think this is what you want.

Cheers,

Brian

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Brian E. Granger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Physics
Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
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