[IPython-dev] Getting the size of ipython notebook cell

[Matthias Bussonnier]

Hi Benjamin,
Le 7 juil. 2014 à 21:27, bjonen a écrit :

> Hey giuys, 
> 
> I am working on a patch for pandas that allows a dataframe's string
> representation to scale with the height and width of the terminal. 
> It would be nice to make this possible in the ipython notebook also.
> However, for this I would need a way to infer the current size of a cell in
> the notebook to cut the dataframe appropriately. 
> 
> Anybody know a way to do this? 

To add to thomas answer : 

As for anythings related to knowing something related to the frontend, it is not possible 
with IPython protocol. 

	- The kernel does not know is is connected to a notebook. 
	- The notebook can be run headless (width make no sense) 
	- several notebook can window can be connected at the same give with live sync between them (so width not unique) 
	[ might be anticipating tomorrow (today?) announcement as scipy]
	- Window can be resized ....
 	- notebook displayed in nbviewer

And so on, and so forth. 

The only thing you can try to if you want dynamic things is to use dynamic table with javascript/html.
-- 
M




> 
> For completeness, here the link to the corresponding pandas issue: 
> https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/7180#issuecomment-47335444
> 
> Thanks,
> Benjamin
> 
> 
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